topic Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat? in Alfresco Archive

alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:32:46 GMT

HiI downloaded alfresco v2.0 and i ve been discovering it for 2 days.It seems to work perfectly and I was confident about using it for my project which to make it short is about managing photos.But suddenly my boss speaks about alfresco being a good solution because it has JBoss. So here is my prob

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

kevinr — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:23:34 GMT

Alfresco works with most app-servers, including TomCat, JBoss, BEAWeblogic, OracleAS and hopefully soon Webphere. The only difference is that you download a different bundle or you can deploy the WAR yourself if you already have the app server installed. So in your case, if you want to use JBoss instead, then you can download the basic WAR package and follow these instructions:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deploying_WAR_JBoss

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:11:02 GMT

What should I do if I want to change the app server and keep all the things I ve done until now?
What I mean, is that I ve installed alfresco first with tomcat and I ve linked it to a mysql database. I ve done some space, contents and rules.
But now I want to use JBoss instead of tomcat so is there a way to change tomcat into JBoss whithout having to reinstall everything? I really want to keep all the things I ve done.

regards
seraphon

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

kevinr — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:26:09 GMT

Yes there is. Alfresco stores it's data in two places - the MySQL DB and the alf_data directory. By default in TomCat you'll find the alf_data dir in the tomcat/bin directory. So it's a simple matter of setting up Alfresco with JBoss, then copying over the alf_data directory to jboss (to the jboss/bin dir). Then make sure your alfresco is pointing to the same db instance (it should be anyway) and it will work. I advise you back the DB and alf_data dir first of course.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:23:23 GMT

I seem to encounter problems with making alfresco work with JBoss.

I followed the tutorial given in your link but when I have JBoss running with the usual message "started in ….."

When I go to http://localhost:8080/alfresco I have an almost blank page with:
HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco

type Status report

message /alfresco

description The requested resource (/alfresco) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.20

Could you please tell me what the problem is?
In my guess it seems that it doesnt find the alfresco data or folder.
The problem may come from the fact that I have a folder C:\alfresco
where I have all the necessary things to make alfresco run with tomcat and it does work. I ve created a folder C:\alfrescoJBoss where I ve put all the necessary files given in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deploying_WAR_JBoss
Do I have to put all the files for alfresco with JBoss in a folder named alfresco?

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:58:48 GMT

oh and by the way my alf_data for tomcat is under the path
C:\Alfresco\alf_data.

and what is the use of the file probe.bat in the JBoss/bin

regards seraphon

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

kevinr — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:20:11 GMT

That's fine - as long as the new JBoss server is made to point to that alf_data then it's fine.

I have no idea what that file is for - it's a JBoss file not alfresco?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:45:19 GMT

probe.bat is in JBoss bin and comes from the jboss-4.0.5GA.zip.
And I still have the problem of alfresco with JBoss not launching.
I am still getting this page I described 3 posts earlier. I m wondering now if it s not a problem of conflict with the alfresco using tomcat only. Of course when I launch alfresco with JBoss I ve shut down the one with tomCat but I wonder if the database alfresco is not still used or something.

But my big problem is that this is only speculation from me and I have no way to prove that.
I ll wait for a reply and if there is still this problem I ll try the violent way of deleting everything except my mysql database and alf_data then I reinstall alfresco with JBoss. That way if it still not work then at least I ll be sure its not because I have some conflict problem.

Regards seraphon

PS: Is there a way to cleanly leave the JBoss window? the file shutdown.bat doesnt seem to work and I have to close it by pushing the x button in the corner which gives me afterwards a warning message.

PS nÂ°2: Now that I think about it I installed alfresco the first time with the setup and in that setup we could chose what kind of database we wanted to use. But when I install alfresco with JBoss manually where do I chose what kind of database I use? Is there any chance that a version of alfresco v2 setup with JBoss will come out soon?

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

slickshow — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:19:11 GMT

I am running into the same problem of trying to deploy Alfresco 2.0 on JBoss 4.2.GA. I had previously installed Alfresco 2.0 with Tomcat and HSQL and that seems to work fine. I am trying to get it work under JBoss 4.2.GA with its own HSQL database and running into deployment issues. This is what I did:

- Unzipped alfresco-community-war-2.0.0 into a folder C:\AlfrescoJBoss. This creates the alf_data and other folders underneath it
- Copied alf_start, alf_stop, alfreso batch files from the Tomcat installation into C:\AlfrescoJBoss folder and modifed so that it starts JBoss instead of Tomcat
- Copied alfresco.war to C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\deploy folder
- Followed the rest of instructions for deploying Alfreso on JBoss from the WIKI page (including turning down the logs and deleting the log4j.jar file)
- Started JBoss, but failed to deploy with following errors:

'C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp42468alfresco-exp.war\' initialized.
2007-06-07 10:18:20,555 WARN [org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener] MyFaces JSF implementation found! This version of JBoss AS ships with the java.net implementation of JSF. There are known issues when mixing JSF implementations. This warning does not apply to MyFaces component libraries such as Tomahawk. However, myfaces-impl.jar and myfaces-api.jar should not be used without disabling the built-in JSF implementation. See the JBoss wiki for more details.
2007-06-07 10:18:28,837 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener
javax.faces.FacesException: java.net.MalformedURLException: Path WEB-INF/faces-config-custom.xml does not start with a "/" character

Next error is about missing MySQL driver. However I needed it to work with HSQL just as it did with Tomcat, not sure where to configure this:

2007-06-07 10:19:15,875 INFO [org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory] Initializing connection provider: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider
2007-06-07 10:19:15,905 WARN [org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 0, SQLState: null
2007-06-07 10:19:15,905 ERROR [org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
2007-06-07 10:19:15,905 WARN [org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory] Could not obtain connection metadata
org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
   at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:766)
   at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540)
   at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.java:80)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:72)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:1881)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1174)
   at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:800)
   at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:726)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1059)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:363)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
   at ….

Could someone provide detailed instructions on how they successfully deployed Alfresco 2.0 on JBoss 4.2.GA using HSQL database. Also not sure if Alfresco is planning a 2.0 release with the JBoss bundle.

Thanks.

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:38:52 GMT

I d like to add that in the wiki page explaining how to make JBoss work with alfresco v2 there is no mention of unzipping the alfresco community v2.zip, just that we need the file alfresco.war inside it. There is also no mention of the JDK v5 that I had to install for Tomcat but I may have misunderstood or missed it somewhere.

And thanks for your posts until now kevinr and I hope you ll continue to help us understand more alfresco.

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

seraphon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:36:22 GMT

well I have just tried what I mentioned above…
So the problem doesnt come from having a previous alfresco with tomcat.

But I have another guess.
By default alfresco (the app server to be exact) launch on the port 8080.
But for a reason that I ignore it is already used by something. With tomcat it was easy to change the port
alfresco\tomcat\conf\server.xml

but with JBoss I have more doubts
I have changed the port in the files
C:\Alfresco\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar\server.xml
and
C:\AlfrescoJBoss\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\all\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar\server.xml
But maybe I have to change it somewhere else to?
Can someone please help me with this matter?

regards
seraphon

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

kevinr — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:38:48 GMT

I am running into the same problem of trying to deploy Alfresco 2.0 on JBoss 4.2.GA. I had previously installed Alfresco 2.0 with Tomcat and HSQL and that seems to work fine. I am trying to get it work under JBoss 4.2.GA with its own HSQL database and running into deployment issues. This is what I did:

'C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp42468alfresco-exp.war\' initialized.
2007-06-07 10:18:20,555 WARN [org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener] MyFaces JSF implementation found! This version of JBoss AS ships with the java.net implementation of JSF. There are known issues when mixing JSF implementations. This warning does not apply to MyFaces component libraries such as Tomahawk. However, myfaces-impl.jar and myfaces-api.jar should not be used without disabling the built-in JSF implementation. See the JBoss wiki for more details.

This is a different problem specific to JBossAS4.2.0 - you'll need to read the JBoss wiki as MyFaces is used in Alfresco.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

slickshow — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:26:23 GMT

Alright, I fixed the problem with MyFaces on JBoss 4.2.0.GA. This is what I did:

On the JBoss Wiki http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss5AndMyFaces, I found the following information:

Using MyFaces Core with JBoss 4.2 and JBoss 5.x
There is no technical reason to use MyFaces Core on JBoss 4.2 or JBoss 5.x. But there are other reasons you might want to bundle it with your WAR. For instance, you might have an old JSF application that already uses MyFaces and you don't want to retest your app on a new JSF implementation. In that case, you can bundle the JSF implementation with your WAR and add this to your web.xml:

<context-param>
<param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

This will cause JBoss to ignore the built-in JSF implementation as long as you use the default classloader settings.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction…

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

juan_montesinos — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:52:39 GMT

Hello everybody,

I found this post and have the same problem. slickshow, could you be more specific about which file did you modified to solve the issue? there is a lot of "web.xml" on my system (I'm using linux opensuse 10.2, jboss 4.2 and JDK 6).

Re: alfresco with JBoss or Tomcat?

slickshow — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:53:21 GMT

I was referring to the web.xml inside alfresco.war. You need to extract this war file to a temp directory, make the modifications in web.xml, and repackage it. You can use the jar command to unpack and repack it. BTW, as in my previous post, this is a problem only with JBoss 4.2.0GA.