HOWTO:Deploy BC4J as Session Bean in Weblogic

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This document describes Howto deploy a BC4J Appmodule as EJB Session Bean to Weblogic and
test the appmodule through the BC4J tester.
=>create a BC4J Application using Business Components Wizard.
=>test it using BC4J tester
=>make the Application Module Remotable [list]
[*]Select Appmodule and right mouse on it to select the edit option
[*]Select Remote tab
[*]Select the check box for Remotable Application Module
[*]Select EJB Session Bean and shuttle it from Available list to Selected list
[*]Click on the finish button[list]
=> Do File| Save All and a Rebuild on the project
=> create the weblogic XML Deployment Descriptor[list]
[*]Choose File|New
[*]Select the web objects tab
[*]Select XML and click ok
[*]Rename the file as ejb-jar.xml using File|Rename
[*]Save it in the JDEV_HOME/myclasses/META-INF directory.
[*]Open the xml file by double clicking on it.
[*]Paste the following into the file
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd'>
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<ejb-name>wl.WlModule</ejb-name>
<home>wl.common.ejb.WlModuleHome</home>
<remote>wl.common.ejb.RemoteWlModule</remote>
<ejb-class>wl.server.ejb.WlModuleServerEJB</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateful</session-type>
<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
</session>
</enterprise-beans>
<assembly-descriptor>
</assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>
[*]Choose File|New
[*]Select the web objects tab
[*]Select XML and click ok
[*]Rename the file as weblogic-ejb-jar.xml using File|Rename
[*]Save it in the JDEV_HOME/myclasses/META-INF directory.
[*]Open the xml file by double clicking on it.
[*]Paste the following into the file
<!DOCTYPE weblogic-ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 5.1.0 EJB//EN' 'http://www.bea.com/servers/wls510/dtd/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd'>
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>wl.WlModule</ejb-name>
<caching-descriptor>
<max-beans-in-free-pool>100</max-beans-in-free-pool>
<max-beans-in-cache>100</max-beans-in-cache>
<idle-timeout-seconds>60</idle-timeout-seconds>
</caching-descriptor>
<jndi-name>wl.WlModule</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
In this example "wl" is the package name and "WlModule" is the Appmodule name.[list]
=> generate the jar file for appmodule along with xml deployment descriptors[list]
[*]from the command line in JDEV_HOME/myclasses directory run
[*]jar cvf0 wlappmodule.jar wl META-INF[list]
=> edit the setenv.cmd file in WEBLOGIC_HOME directory[list]
[*]set JAVA_HOME=f:\jdev32\java1.2
[*]set JBOLIB=f:\jdev32\lib
[*]set JDBC_CLASSES=f:\jdev32\jdbc\lib\oracle8.1.7\classes12.zip
[*]set JBO_RUNTIME=%JBOLIB%\jboorasql.zip;%JDBC_CLASSES%;%JBOLIB%\jbodatum12.zip;%JBOLIB%\xmlparserv2.jar;%JBOLIB%\jbomt.zip;%JBOLIB%\jboejb.jar
[*]add JBO_RUNTIME in the set CLASSPATH variable[list]
=> create a bc4j deploy batch file "Deploybc4j.cmd" in the WEB_LOGIC HOME
which will generate the server side jar files
@setlocal
set JAVA=java
set JAVAC=javac
set BEAN_JAR=%1
set EJB_TEMP=f:\jdev32\myclasses\wl
set XMLPARSERV2=f:\jdev32\lib\xmlparserv2.jar;
set JDBC_LIBS=f:\jdev32\jdbc\oracle8.1.7\lib\classes12.zip
set JBO_EJB_RUNTIME=f:\jdev32\lib\jbomt.zip;f:\jdev32\lib\jboejb.jar;%XMLPARSERV2%;%JDBC_LIBS%
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%JBO_EJB_RUNTIME%;%BEAN_JAR%;%EJB_TEMP%
%JAVA% weblogic.ejbc -compiler javac f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlappmodule.jar f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlAppModuleGenerated.jar;f:\jdev32\lib\jbodomorcl.zip
pushd %EJB_TEMP%
@endlocal
Note: substittue appropriate jar file and directory structure names
=> Run setenv.cmd
=> Run deploybc4j.cmd
=> Configure Weblogic server[list]
If your weblogic server is residing on a different machine then
[*]copy wlAppModuleGenerated.jar (generated jar file from deploybc4j.cmd)
[*]Copy classes12.zip from JDEV_HOME/jdbc/lib/oracle8.1.7/ directory
[*]Copy jbodomorcl.zip
[*]jbodatum12.zip
[*]xmlparserv2.jar
[*]jbomt.zip
[*]jboejb.jar from JDEV_HOME/lib directory
[*]edit weblogic.properties file in WEBLOGIC_HOME directory
[*]In the WEBLOGIC EJB DEMO PROPERTIES sectio
[*]add weblogic.ejb.deploy=E:/weblogic/myserver/wlAppModuleGenerated.jar
(generated jar file from deploybc4j.cmd file)
[*]edit startweblogic.cmd file in WEBLOGIC_HOME directory
[*]set POST_CLASSPATH=f:\jdev32\jdbc\oracle8.1.7\lib\classes12.zip;f:\jdev32\lib\jboorasql.zip;f:\jdev32\lib\jbodatum12.zip;f:\jdev32\lib\xmlparserv2.jar;f:\jdev32\lib\jbomt.zip;f:\jdev32 \lib\jboEJB.jar;f:\jdev32\lib\jbodomorcl.zip
[*]add E:/weblogic/myserver/wlAppModuleGenerated.jar
(generated jar file from deploybc4j.cmd file) in the weblogic_classpath setting[list]
Note: modify the directory structure of jar files as apporpriate
=> Run the BC4J tester to test the deployed BC4J Appmodule as session bean to Weblogic[list]
[*]Add a new library
[*]Select the Project in which you developed the BC4J Appmodule
[*]Project | Project Properties
[*]select libraries tab
[*]Click on Add
[*]Click on New
[*]Specify "JBO WL Client" in the NAME
[*]Click on ... button for adding the jar files
[*]Click on Add/Zip jar button to add the following files
weblogicaux.jar
jboremoteejb.zip
jboremote.zip
<Weblogic_home>/classes
[*]Click on OK
[*]Start the weblogic server
[*]Bring the BC4J Tester by doing a right mouse on the appmodule and selecting Test option
[*]In the Middle Tier Server Type Select "Weblogic"
[*]Specify Host name and port # of weblogic server
[*]Click on Connect[list]
raghu
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Answer 1

Although this explains how to then deploy to Weblogic on another server, it still presumes that it is installed on the same computer as JDev. I moved the weblogic.jar file over to the computer and fudged a few things to get it to work.
Also, I am testing this with Weblogic 6.0, so some of the information does not work as prescribed. I edited the config.xml instead of the weblogic.properties file. I am trying to figure out where to put all of the *.jar and *.zip files that I copied over to the Solaris machine with Weblogic. Any suggestions?
And one of the steps in the section to create the deploybc4j.cmd file is wrong. It says
"%JAVA% weblogic.ejbc -compiler javac f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlappmodule.jar f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlAppModuleGenerated.jar;f:\jdev32\lib\jbodomorcl.zip"
Which does not work. I took off the last part:
"%JAVA% weblogic.ejbc -compiler javac f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlappmodule.jar f:\jdev32\myclasses\wlAppModuleGenerated.jar"
and it worked. It was getting that whole last part and trying to create a directory with that name and failing.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Shanes ([email protected]):
This seems to assume that JDev and Weblogic are installed on the same server (I refer to the section on setting the setenv.cmd file in the WEBLOGIC_HOME dir that includes the path to the JDev install.
I have JDev installed on a Win 2k box and Weblogic installed on a Solaris. Any suggestions? I got all the way up to the setenv.cmd step fine.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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