How can one invoke a WebLogic EJB from a BPEL Server hosted on OC4J?

Question

How can one invoke a WebLogic EJB from a BPEL Server hosted on OC4J?
Reason I ask is I keep getting this error:
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate cla
ss: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotF
oundException: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory]
Note: I am using <bpelx:exec> as a way to execute some java program.
Essentially my java client (essentially an EJB client hosted on Oc4J) needs access to wlclient.jar since it needs access to weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory. I have a EJB client running on BPEL server hosted on Oc4J that needs to access some EJBs hosted on weblogic.
Where do I place this wlclient.jar so that BPEL PM can start peacefully and at runtime discover the InitialContextFactory classes?
Placing it in the j2ee/home/applib doesn't solve the problem. The server fails to start up if I do this
I tried placing it in BPEL-INF\lib directory ...
I still get the same exception...see below for exception dump
I verified the BPEL suitcase, and it in fact does contain the jar file wlclient.jar
integration\orabpel\domains\default\deploy contains the bpel_BPELProcess2_1.0.jar file and snapshot of that is as follows:
<PRE>
&#9474; bpel.xml
&#9474; BPELProcess2.bpel
&#9474; BPELProcess2.jpr
&#9474; BPELProcess2.wsdl
&#9474; bpel_BPELProcess2_1.0.jar
&#9474; build.xml
&#9474; buildxml.copy
&#9474; graphics.xml
&#9474;
&#9500;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;BPEL-INF
&#9474; &#9492;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;lib
&#9474; myEJB.jar
&#9474; wlclient.jar
&#9474;
&#9500;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;META-INF
&#9474; MANIFEST.MF
&#9474;
&#9492;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;output
bpel_BPELProcess2_1.0.jar
</PRE>
I tried using the BPEL-INF\jar directory...Is this something the obant automatically detects? or do I have to modify the build.xml? I created this directory and let Jdev deploy to local BPEL server->default domain handle it
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I even tried copying the wlclient.jar to
integration\orabpel\system\classes but this doesn't help since the BPEL PM fails to start if I explode this jar into this directory.
In short,where do I place the wlclient.jar so that this exception can be contained.
I edited the build.xml to point to the jar, that too didn't work, unless I made some mistake in the file
<bpelc classpath="${basedir}/BPEL-INF/classes;${home}/system/classes;${home}/lib/j2ee_1.3.01.jar;${basedir}/BPEL-INF/jar/wlclient.jar" input="${basedir}/bpel.xml" rev="${rev}" deploy="${deploy}" />
</target>
</project>
DETAILS on ERROR
I get the following error
Process "BPELProcess2" (revision "1.0") successfully compiled.
<2005-12-14 09:17:55,770> <INFO> <default.collaxa.cube.engine.deployment> Proces
s "BPELProcess2" (revision "1.0") successfully loaded.
05/12/14 09:18:36 weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate cla
ss: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotF
oundException: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory]
05/12/14 09:18:36 at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Nami
ngManager.java:652)
05/12/14 09:18:36 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Initial
Context.java:243)
05/12/14 09:18:36 at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:
219)
05/12/14 09:18:36 at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.jav
a:195)
05/12/14 09:18:36 at com.ejb.test.MapFinder.getDefaultMapName(Map
Finder.java:37)
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with the bpelx all I have is two lines of code that creates a java object and calls a method on it.
The method does this:
    private String initialContextFactory = "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory";
    private String providerUrl = "t3://localhost:7001";
    private String urlPkgPrefixes = "";
    private String mapEjbJndiName = "ejb/mycompany/Redlands";
    public String getDefaultMapName() {
      try {
          Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
          env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, getInitialContextFactory());
          env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, getProviderUrl());
          if (getUrlPkgPrefixes() != null && !getUrlPkgPrefixes().equals(""))
              env.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, getUrlPkgPrefixes());
          System.out.println("    " + getInitialContextFactory());
          System.out.println("    " + getProviderUrl());
          System.out.println("    " + getUrlPkgPrefixes());
          System.out.println("    " + getEjbName());
          // Get a naming context
          context = new InitialContext(env);
           Object ms  = context.lookup(getEjbName());
          MyEJBHome home = (MyEJBHome ) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ms, MyEJBHome.class);
          myEjb = home.create();
          return myEjb.getDefaultName();
      } catch (RemoteException re){
          System.out.println(re.getCause().getMessage());
      catch (Exception ex) {
          ex.printStackTrace();
      return null; //if unable to resolve the context factory etc...
    }

Answer 1

I did exactly as you suggested. I edited the application.xml and added this
<library path="C:\ArcGIS\test\bea\wlclient.jar"/>
I didn't add weblogic because the needed classes were all in wlclient.jar
I also edited the BASE_OB_CLASSPATH to include this jar.
Here is the result when I just start BPEL PM Server. Somehow BPEL PM doesn't like to have wlclient.jar in its classpath during startup.
Failed to create "worker" bean; exception reported is: "javax.naming.NameNotFoun
dException: remaining name: env
at weblogic.j2eeclient.SimpleContext.lookup(SimpleContext.java:49)
at weblogic.j2eeclient.SimpleContext.lookup(SimpleContext.java:57)
at weblogic.j2eeclient.SimpleContext.lookup(SimpleContext.java:62)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at com.collaxa.cube.engine.ejb.impl.WorkerBean.ejbCreate(WorkerBean.java
:49)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.evermind.server.ejb.MessageDrivenHome.getInstance(MessageDrivenHo
me.java:1235)
at com.evermind.server.ejb.MessageDrivenHome$2.run(MessageDrivenHome.jav
a:1150)
at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(Relea
sableResourcePooledExecutor.java:186)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
<2005-12-29 13:39:05,281> <ERROR> <collaxa> <ServerManager::loadAllDomains>
ORABPEL START-UP ERROR!!!!!!!!
OraBPEL run-time system failed to start due to exception:
Could not initialize jms connection pool.
Could not initialize connection pool for connection factory "java:comp/env/jms/
ollaxa/BPELInvokerQueueFactory"; the reason is remaining name: env/jms/collaxa/
PELInvokerQueueFactory.
Note: So what I did was to removed the entry from application.xml and tried with just obsetenv.bat having the wlclient.jar added to it. This too failed!!
Here is a snapshot of the error I got.
Process "BPELProcess2" (revision "1.0") successfully compiled.
<2005-12-29 13:53:11,207> <INFO> <default.collaxa.cube.engine.deployment> Proces
s "BPELProcess2" (revision "1.0") successfully loaded.
05/12/29 13:53:32 Cannot instantiate class: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactor
y
05/12/29 13:53:32 javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate cla
ss: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotF
oundException: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory]
05/12/29 13:53:32 at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Nami
ngManager.java:652)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Initial
Context.java:243)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:
219)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.jav
a:195)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.esri.adf.ejb.test.MapFinder.getDefaultMapName(Map
Finder.java:57)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at bpel.p0.ExecLetBxExe1.execute(ExecLetBxExe1.java:62)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.ext.wmp.BPELXExecWMP.__execut
eStatements(BPELXExecWMP.java:49)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.ext.wmp.BPELActivityWMP.perfo
rm(BPELActivityWMP.java:185)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.CubeEngine.performActivity(Cu
beEngine.java:3398)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.CubeEngine.handleWorkItem(Cub
eEngine.java:1905)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.dispatch.message.instance.Per
formMessageHandler.handleLocal(PerformMessageHandler.java:75)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.dispatch.DispatchHelper.handl
eLocalMessage(DispatchHelper.java:100)
05/12/29 13:53:32 at com.collaxa.cube.engine.dispatch.DispatchHelper.sendM