Failed to deploy an application because of a bad mail resource reference

Question

Hello.
I use WebLogic 8.1 on Linux, and face a very strange problem with JNDI e-mail resource reference. I would be greatful if anyone could help. Here is the case.
When deploying a simple application I get the exception:
Exception:weblogic.management.ApplicationException:
activate failed for IKRTest-0.1 Module: IKRTest-0.1
Error: weblogic.management.DeploymentException:
Could not setup environment - with nested exception:
[weblogic.deployment.EnvironmentException:
ResourceReference "mail/Session" has no reference set]Though I have set up in the console the mail session resource with JNDI name mail/Session and have restarted the server. That's how it's shown in the domain's config.xml (all the hosts and addresses below are changed):
<MailSession JNDIName="mail/Session" Name="mail/Session"
    Properties="mail.smtp.host=smtp.example.com"
    Targets="myserver"/>In my web.xml I have:
    <resource-ref>
        <description>
            Resource reference to a factory for javax.mail.Session
            instances that may be used for sending electronic mail
            messages, preconfigured to connect to the appropriate
            SMTP server.
        </description>
        <res-ref-name>mail/Session</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>Here is the code which tries to utilize the resource:
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");           
Session session = (Session) envCtx.lookup("mail/Session");
Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("[email protected]"));
InternetAddress to[] = new InternetAddress[1];
to[0] = new InternetAddress("[email protected]");
message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, to);
message.setSubject("Concerning IKRTest");
message.setContent("Here I am.", "text/plain");
Transport.send(message)All this worked just fine on Tomcat 5. So I wonder what's the problem on WebLogic. Please give an advice!
Thanks,
Ivan.
Message was edited by ikr at Dec 7, 2004 4:35 AM
Message was edited by ikr at Dec 7, 2004 4:37 AM

Answer 1

Hello,
I have not seen this before but you can try adding the protocol explicitly
mail.transport.protocol=smtp
Also my web app does not seem to have the deployment descriptor <resource-ref/> reffernces try removing those and see what happens.
Cheers,
Hoos