JMS application without appclient and deploytool

Question

I have a requirement to run a Java application which communicates using JMS. "appclient" should not be used. This application should be able to run as an independent java application. How to achieve this?
Further I do not see "deploytool" in the JES 2004Q2 version, do I need one at all? I guess there is no need to deploy an application for JMS to work. Is that assumption true?
What should jms_client.properties contain? Where can I find the detailed explanation for the file?
Thanks a lot for any help in anticipation.

Answer 1

Hello,
I try to do the same thing as you : not use the appclient command, but my application must be an independent java application.
I can run a java application which lookup connectionFactory & destination created in the S1AS admin console on my localhost. the code look like this:
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"iiop://localhost:3700");
jndiContext = new InitialContext(props);
to run the application, the classpath must contains :
%J2EE_HOME%\lib\j2ee.jar
%J2EE_HOME%\lib\appserv-rt.jar
%J2EE_HOME%\lib\lib\appserv-admin.jar
%IMQ_HOME%\lib\imqjmsra.jar
don't forget to also put your java application class.
then you can run the application (I try with the simple J2EE 1.4 tutorial):
java SimpleProducer jms/Queue 3
It's works.
But, when I try to get connectionfactory and destination from a remote server, it's not works...
my code:
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"iiop://<myservername>:3700");
the port number is ok, and the app server and JMS service is running.
The jms/JupiterConnectionFactory (to get connection with the JMS service) and the jms/Queue (destination) exists on the remote server.
And when I run the application on my machine, I have this error:
Destination name is jms/Queue
JNDI API lookup failed: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: JupiterConnectionFac
tory not found
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: JupiterConnectionFactory not found
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.TransientContext.doLookup(TransientContext.
java:185)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.TransientContext.lookup(TransientContext.ja
va:157)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.TransientContext.lookup(TransientContext.ja
va:161)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContextProviderImpl.lookup(SerialCont
extProviderImpl.java:96)
at org.omg.stub.com.sun.enterprise.naming._SerialContextProviderImpl_Tie
._invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaServerRequestDispatcherImpl.dispa
tchToServant(CorbaServerRequestDispatcherImpl.java:651)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaServerRequestDispatcherImpl.dispa
tch(CorbaServerRequestDispatcherImpl.java:190)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.handleRequest
Request(CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.java:1653)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.handleRequest
(CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.java:1513)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.handleInput(C
orbaMessageMediatorImpl.java:895)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.giopmsgheaders.RequestMessage_1_2.call
back(RequestMessage_1_2.java:172)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.handleRequest
(CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.java:668)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.dispatc
h(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:375)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.read(So
cketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:284)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.ReaderThreadImpl.doWork(ReaderThreadI
mpl.java:73)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.orbutil.threadpool.ThreadPoolImpl$WorkerThread.
run(ThreadPoolImpl.java:382)
I don't understand, my objects really exists on the remove app server.
How to do this ?
I have another questions.
When you use the S1AP admin console to create JMS connectionFactory and Destination, where these objects are physically stored ?
Because, when you use the Sun MQ broker admin console, you don't see the connectionFactory and destination that you create in S1AP admin console (but only the physical destination).
And when you choose, in the MQ admin console, to use the com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory JNDI service properties to store your objects, you can see a .bindings file in your directory (file:///tmp if you choose this for example) which contains connectionFactory and destination objects.
Someone can help me too ?
Thanks.