Automated Deployment Using admin_client.jar gives 500 error

Question

Greetings,
1. standalone OC4J version 10.1.3.3.0
2. Windows XP platform in a VM
We have a mature deployment in that the deployment from JDeveloper is routinely successful. During the course of developing continuous integration builds, the automated deployment is now failing. We had succeeded previously using admin_client.jar and the deploy command as follows:
    <target name="deploy_oc4j" depends="assembleEar"
  description="deploy the enterprise archive to a standalone oc4j using admin_client.jar">
    <echo>
      In deploy_oc4j target.
    </echo>
    <java classname="${j2ee.home}/admin_client.jar" fork="true">
        <jvmarg value="-jar"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.admin_client}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.username}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.password}"/>
        <arg value="-deploy"/>
        <arg value="-file"/>
        <arg value="${this.application.name}".ear"/>
        <arg value="-deploymentName"/>
        <arg value="${this.application.name}"/>
        <arg value="-bindAllWebApps"/>
        <arg value="${default.application.name}"/>
    </java>
    </target>We now have two issues occurring and they may be related. We have added the capability of creating a connection pool and a data source using admin_client.jar commands:
    <target name="connectionpool" depends="deploy_oc4j"
      description="create a connection pool using admin_client.jar">
    <echo>
    Adding a connection pool.
    </echo>
      <java classname="${j2ee.home}/admin_client.jar" fork="true">
        <jvmarg value="-jar"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.admin_client}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.username}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.password}"/>
        <arg value="-addDataSourceConnectionPool"/>
        <arg value="-applicationName"/>
        <arg value="${this.application.name}"/>
        <arg value="-name"/>
        <arg value="jdev-connection-pool-name"/>
        <arg value="-factoryClass"/>
        <arg value="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"/>
        <arg value="-dbUser"/>
        <arg value="username"/>
        <arg value="-dbPassword"/>
        <arg value="password"/>
        <arg value="-url"/>
        <arg value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@dev:1521:ORCL"/>
      </java>
    </target>
    <target name="datasource" depends="connectionpool"
      description="create a datasource using admin_client.jar">
    <echo>
    Adding Managed Data Source.
    </echo>
      <java classname="${j2ee.home}/admin_client.jar" fork="true">
        <jvmarg value="-jar"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.admin_client}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.username}"/>
        <arg value="${oc4j.deploy.password}"/>
        <arg value="-addManagedDataSource"/>
        <arg value="-applicationName"/>
        <arg value="${this.application.name}"/>
        <arg value="-name"/>
        <arg value="jdev-connection-managed-name"/>
        <arg value="-jndiLocation"/>
        <arg value="jdbc/name"/>
        <arg value="-connectionPoolName"/>
        <arg value="jdev-connection-pool-name"/>
        <arg value="-dbUser"/>
        <arg value="username"/>
        <arg value="-dbPassword"/>
        <arg value="password"/>
      </java>
    </target>We complete the automated deployment and all ant tasks succeed, including creation of the connection pool and managed data source. During this process, the existing system-jazn-data.xml file is overwritten and our Application's <login module> information has been deleted. Upon editing this file and adding back the login module data and restarting oc4j, we can login to our application. The framework of the site is present along with graphics, yet every page visited yields a 500 error (jspx +and+ HTML). Since the entire deployment is done from ant, we do not have the capability of specifying a the web-app as development configuration. We need advice on how best to debug the deployed application as well as knowledge regarding the mechanism which causes the system-jazn-data.xml file in the oc4j/j2ee/home/config folder to be modified.
THX
-Mike
Edited by: Michael F. Hardy on Sep 11, 2008 5:03 PM
Edited by: Michael F. Hardy on Sep 11, 2008 5:03 PM
Edited by: Michael F. Hardy on Sep 11, 2008 5:05 PM

Answer 1

Found that jar files were missing from autobuild. This continues to be an issue where libraries are added to WEB-INF\lib in JDeveloper and the individual jar files are needed for an automated build process.