How to run a Java EE client application ?

Question

Greetings,
I have a Java EE Application Project created with Eclipse (OEPE) and I don't know how to run it ? I asked the question on the OEPE forum but didn't manage to have any pertinent answer. I have also looked at Developing Java EE Application Clients (Thin Clients) in the Programming Stand-alone Clients book and tried to use commands as weblogic.clientDeployer and weblogic.j2eeclient.Main but haven't been able to get them working. And anyway, they are not done to be used in Eclipse as I didn't find any ant tasks for them.
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Nicolas

Answer 1

I have an ear with the following content:
0 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 APP-INF/
0 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 APP-INF/classes/
0 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 APP-INF/lib/
6843 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 APP-INF/lib/ww204-jpa.jar
0 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 META-INF/
542 Thu Apr 23 12:19:44 CEST 2009 META-INF/application.xml
25 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
659 Mon Apr 20 18:37:56 CEST 2009 META-INF/weblogic-application.xml
1220 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 ww204-client.jar
4040 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 ww204-ejb.jar
I'm running the following command:
java -classpath C:\bea\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\weblogic.jar weblogic.ClientDeployer ww204.ear ww204-client
This creates the jar with the following content:
764 Thu Apr 23 12:04:42 CEST 2009 Main.class
0 Thu Apr 23 12:20:52 CEST 2009 META-INF/
351 Thu Apr 23 12:10:08 CEST 2009 META-INF/application-client.xml
43 Thu Apr 23 12:02:26 CEST 2009 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
And of course, when I try to run the client using the command:
C:\Users\nicolas>java -classpath C:\bea\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\weblogic.jar weblogic.j2eeclient.Main ww204-client t3://localhost:7001
it raises the following exception:
java.lang.Exception: Stack trace
     at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1206)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.run(Main.java:194)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.main(Main.java:926)
java.lang.Exception: Stack trace
     at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1206)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.run(Main.java:196)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.main(Main.java:926)
Exception in thread "Main Thread" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.run(Main.java:201)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.main(Main.java:926)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: fr/simplex_software/slsb/FacadeRemote
     at Main.main(Main.java:10)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.run(Main.java:201)
     at weblogic.j2eeclient.Main.main(Main.java:928)
The ww204-client.jar was created as an OEPE J2EE Application Project and it was extracted with weblogic.ClientDeployer from the ear exported by OEPE. But it doesn't contain the required classes.