Sun App Server as a Web Server

Can the Sun App Server be used as a simple Web Server (like Apache)? If so, how does one set the root directory for HTML files?
Thanks

Thanks.
Just to clarify for any others who are interested, heres the deal:
1) Package the static HTML files using the 'deploytool' (See Packaging Web Modules in Chapter 3 of The J2EE(TM) 1.4 Tutorial). This creates a .war file with the required deployment descriptors(?); anyway it creates a bunch of .xml files that have the right data in them.
2) Take the .war file and drop it in the 'quick deploy' icon (copies the .war file to the 'autodeploy' directory for the App Server instance).
Anyhow thats the drill.
Good luck.

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Web Services with Sun App Server

We are load testing a simple web service running in SJSAS 8.0 Standard. With 1 or 2 users concurrent it seems OK, but once we move up to 5 concurrent users calling the WS, the domain in SJSAS crashes.
Does anyone have experience or information regarding the app server and load with web services? Are there some config options that we can tweak? Are there any numbers out there about how many simultaneous connections the server can handle?
A final note, things seem fine if we are just serving a simple web page from the server, its only when we try to call a WS that we run into these performance issues.
Thanks.

Are you connecting to any external resource using JNDI by any chance? If you're using Unix, check the number of file descriptors being opened on the Sun App server. "new dirContext(env)" creates OS file descriptors each time it's invoked (calling the web service for example).
use
$ps -ax
get the process number of sjas and try issuing a:
lsof -p <sjas_process_number> |wc -l
and keep invoking the web service. If this number keeps increasing then you've an "fd" leak (perhaps not closing the dirContext). Linux for example has a default max file limit of 1024 under "root" user and when depleted, sjas will hang.
Could this be the problem?
Cheers
Steve

What does the Sun App Server Use as a web container?

Does the Sun App Server use tomcat? Or is it some derivative of Tomcat?
thanks for the info.

Thanks.
Just to clarify for any others who are interested, heres the deal:
1) Package the static HTML files using the 'deploytool' (See Packaging Web Modules in Chapter 3 of The J2EE(TM) 1.4 Tutorial). This creates a .war file with the required deployment descriptors(?); anyway it creates a bunch of .xml files that have the right data in them.
2) Take the .war file and drop it in the 'quick deploy' icon (copies the .war file to the 'autodeploy' directory for the App Server instance).
Anyhow thats the drill.
Good luck.

Deploying a WAR file to Sun App Server 8.1 PE

So I thought that if I downloaded Sun App Server PE 8.1 and put it on my soon-to-be production machine, it should be pretty easy right?
Nope. So I have JSC update 6 (which includes Sun Application Server 8.0) (God how I wish there was a catchy name like Tomcat or something)
And I have a machine running a good copy, installed and everything, of Sun Application Server 8.1 Platform Edition (another catchy name) up on the production target.
I create a WAR file in JSC, scp it up.
Then try to deploy it - so I get bit by the no DB connection thing.
Ok, but when I copy each of my connection's attributes (the driver (which I did copy up to the lib directory) is MySQL's Connector/J)
I copy the username, password, URL and DriverClass attributes to the connection pool.
I still get a
"Operation 'pingConnectionPool' failed in 'resources' Config Mbean. Target exception message: Class name is wrong or classpath is not set for : com.sun.sql.datasource.DriverAdapter"
when I try to Ping the ConnectionPool
I have javax.sql.DataSource as the resource type... (same as 8.0 uses)
what JAR file is DriverAdapter in? anyone know?
cheers,
Kris

Okay. mysql folks - this works......
here's what happened, on the production server, different from the dev machine....
mysql 4.1.9
sun application server platform edition PE 8.1
connector/j - latest
and on the dev machine: JSC Update 6 and the app works fine on the dev machine.
first, there is a JAR file in ~whatever/Create/SunAppServer/lib/ named
driveradaptor.jar
and it it comtains
com.sun.sql.datasource.DriverAdapter
which 8.1 ain't got
and should be copied up to
/installdir/SunAppServer/domains/domain1/lib/ext/driveradapter.jar
(domain1 is your app svr domain that runs your app.)
your Connector/J JAR needs to go here too. I used:
mysql-connector-java-3.2.0-alpha-bin.jar
downloaded from mysql.com.
and then there is the whole thing about Added Properties in the Connection Pool page inside the 8.1 Admin Console (which is nice work guys). Gawd, I added a bunch of properties and am, frankly, not sure which ones actually work (for the Ping, for the initial connection creation and the eventual successful connection all seem to use different combinations...)
and I found this in the domain's domain.xml once all the admin console page filling was done - but you'll need to add each one as a Property in the connection pool:
<jdbc-connection-pool connection-validation-method="auto-commit" datasource-classname="com.sun.sql.datasource.DriverAdapter" fail-all-connections="false" [blah...]
<property name="Username" value="root"/>
<property name="Password" value="secret"/>
<property name="ValidationQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
<property name="DriverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="LoginTimeout" value="0"/>
<property name="Url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/databasename?autoReconnect=true"/>
<property name="User" value="root"/>
<property name="password" value="secret"/>
<property name="PasswordCredential" value="secret"/>
</jdbc-connection-pool>
(and you see how User and Username and username are all the same thing? well, different parts of 8.1 seem to use different attributes...)
Just keep Adding Properties in the connection pool until you get them all....
Oh and, the two key class references for the pool are:
datasource class: com.sun.sql.datasource.DriverAdapter
resource type: javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource
Finally: in the /installdir/SunAppServer/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-modules/YourAppName/WEB-INF/
your 'sun-web.xml' (don't delete it, like some have advocated, I think that wrong) needs to look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Application Server 8.1 Servlet 2.4//EN" "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_4-1.dtd">
<sun-web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee">
<context-root>/yourcontext</context-root>
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/Yourname</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/Yourname</jndi-name>
<default-resource-principal>
<name>root</name>
<password>secret</password>
</default-resource-principal>
</resource-ref>
</sun-web-app>
and I think that's all of it. the only Bug I would I would say is that the sun-web.xml should have the right res-ref-name, but then I think the Creator Team knows this and will fix it sometime soon.
cheers,
and Roger Federer lost in the Aussie Open. (I think he lost tomorrow too, that whole time zone thing being so damn Einsteinian...)
-Kristofer

Fedora core 6 sun app server won't start

Sun app server 8.2 bundled with creator 2u1 doesn't start. This install was running fine under fc5. Among other things I get the following with pe-start -reset which I think might be the crust of the problem:
"Unable to read system environment. No system environment will be used."
Any help appreciated.

Exported projects to nb5.5 with visual-web pack and after fixing datasources and libraries things are working again. Could not find a solution for Creator2 on Fedora Core 6. Thanks anyway.

Can JSC support Sun App Server 9?

Does anyone know if JSC can support sun app server 9?
Last I heard was that 8.2 is the max version.
Along the same line, is there any word of another update to JSC
that will work with app server 9 and jdk 6???

Hi!
Actually You can deploy your application to Sun App Server 9.0, but probably not all features will work. But now You can download NetBeans 5.5 and Visual Web Pack for it (it's a next step of Creator's evolution) and this IDE supports GlassFish (opensourced Sun App Server 9.0).
Thanks,
Roman.

Is soap provider agent only available for Sun app server 9.1?

See the blue print on securing web services with soap provider agent. Is this agent embedded within the J2EE agent for sun app server 9.1? Is the same "soap provider agent" available for websphere 6.x or iis server?
Thanks

the agentadmin --install script does not seem to add all the required things to the server-classpath in the domain.xml
mine now looks like this:
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/lib/agent.jar
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/locale
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/Agent_001/config
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/lib/amclientsdk.jar
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/lib/fmclientsdk.jar
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/lib/opensso-installtools.jar
/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/lib/opensso-installtools-launcher.jar
AND, I've added a system property:
-Dcom.sun.identity.agents.config.location=/opt/j2ee_agents/appserver_v9_agent/Agent_001/config/AMAgent.properties
I now at least get a different error:
Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
     at com.sun.identity.agents.filter.URLPolicyTaskHandler.initialize(URLPolicyTaskHandler.java:63)
com.sun.enterprise.web.HttpServiceWebContainer.service(HttpServiceWebContainer.java:2114)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception caught in AmWebPolicyManager initializer: Unable to load IAmWebPolicy: com.sun.identity.agents.policy.AmWebPolicy
     at com.sun.identity.agents.policy.AmWebPolicyManager.<clinit>(AmWebPolicyManager.java:135)
     ... 24 more

Can I run Servlets in the Sun App Server?

I am trying to run a servlet. I am not sure if I can run the same using the Sun app server. any help to clarify the following queries would be appreciated.
1. Should I have to specify a path in the environmental variables?
2. Is there a web site that tells me the same with respect to running the servlet on a Sun app server.
Thanks in advance.
--Srikanta

I'm not sure what you want in regards to question, but I can assure you that you can run servlets in S1AS7. My recommendation is to just package your servlet into a web archive (war) and deploy it. You can deploy it via the commandline (asadmin) or the web based administrative client (likely http://localhost:4848). For more information on this I suggest reading:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-7150-10/index.html
You must likely want to read the section on assembling and deploying web applications.
Matt Bauer

JAX-WS 2.1.1 RI on Sun App Server 8.1

I'm trying to deploy a JAX-WS 2.1.1 web service on Sun App Server 8.1 and I keep getting these "no such method" exceptions thrown:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory.newInstance(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljavax/xml/soap/MessageFactory;
I've found the javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory class in j2ee.jar packaged with Sun App Server 8.1, which indeed does not have that method. And I've also found javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory in saaj-api.jar that came with the JAX-WS 2.1.1 RI distribution, which does have that method.
Is there some way to get JAX-WS 2.1.1 RI to play nice in Sun App Server 8.1?

If possible specify saaj-api.jar before j2ee.jar on your runtime classpath.
I am not familiar with Sun App Server 8.1. I had to patch domain classpath to resolve similar issues on weblogic. Also, there may be some configuration options to specify which jars get loaded first.

Sun app server 8.1 vs 8.2 for jsf 1.1

Currently we have download sun studio creator 2 which comes with sun app server 8.1 as its default server. We want to make our default server in studio creator 2 as app server 8.2, since our production environment is running on 8.2.
Any help will be appreciated.

I experienced this error on an application (not jsf), but it was something silly in the end. There may be a bug with JSF in 8.1 but I would just check the obvious before you start delving into the depths of the code.
Are you calling the app with http://localhost/AppA and the posting to http://svr03/AppA ?
Set the web.xml file to point to an HTTP file (leave everything else as is) what happens?
Simon

Connecting to EJ bean in Sun App Server 8

I am working my way through the j2eetutorial14, and have successfully built the Converter app. However, I need to run the stand-alone client, connecting to the bean, in a server-independent way. So, as part of my exercise, I copied the client code in Eclipse, and made the following changes to the code:
from the original example:
Context initial = new InitialContext();
Context myEnv = (Context) initial.lookup("java:comp/env");
Object objref = myEnv.lookup("ejb/SimpleConverter");
ConverterHome home = (ConverterHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, ConverterHome.class);to this:
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.cosnaming.CNCtxFactory");
properties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "corbaloc:iiop:localhost:3700");
Context initial = new InitialContext(properties);
Object objref = initial.lookup("ConverterBean");
ConverterHome home = (ConverterHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, ConverterHome.class);Now I am getting this exception in the narrow() method:
java.lang.ClassCastException
     at com.sun.corba.se.internal.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:293)
     at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:134)
     at ConverterClient.main(ConverterClient.java:27)When I run the client from the script:
appclient -client ConverterAppClient.jarit works as expected. I am obviously missing something in my Eclipse runtime environment, but the manual was of no help so far. (But j2ee.jar library from C:\Sun\AppServer\lib is in the classpath.)
If anyone successfully connected to the Sun App Server 8 EJB from a stand-alone client and can share their wisdom, I will appreciate it.
On a more general note, what are the pitfalls to watch for when writing, packaging and distributing an EJB app (bean and stand-alone client) in a server-independent way? Any pointers?
Thanks for any help.
Alex.

Did you have the EJB client JAR in your classpath? Yes, and I spent all day searching the Forums for the clues. I found the answer, and was going to post it here. The client JAR was missing the RMI stubs. The process of generating the stubs is quite cumbersome - at least, the one that I discovered. It involves deploying the EAR first, then going to the Admin Console and manually setting a number of options, then collecting the sought-for JAR from the Sun App Server's applications directory. The generated file will contain the stubs, and also the Home and Remote interface files, as well as the bean class (something that the client will never need). So, I may have to write a script to strip off the needless baggage from the client JAR.
I have been working with JBoss and its plugin for Eclipse for some time now, and grew spoiled by the ease of deployment there, including the fact that the JBoss/Eclipse combo took care of the RMI stubs and many other things that Sun's server exposes to the developer.
Anyway, here is my cookbook that I made as I was working through the process of generating the stubs:
====================================
Creating a stand-alone Client:
The stand-alone client need RMI stubs to communicate with the EJ bean on the server side. To create the stubs:
1. Start the Admin Console web page (Start > All Programs > Sun Microsystems > Application Server PE > Admin Console). In the left-hand frame select: Applications > Enterprise Applications.
2 In the right-hand frame, press Deploy button.
3 Select file to upoad (navigate to the application EAR). Press Next.
4. Set Application Name field (it should be preset), and check the Generate: RMIStubs checkbox. If this procedure was done before, check the Redeploy box to force generation of the file.
5. Press OK button.
The JAR file with stubs will be placed into C:\Sun\AppServer\domains\domain1\applications\j2ee-apps directory.
The stubs have format _name_Stub.class and _nameHome_Stub.class (e.g. for Converter app the files are ConverterStub.class and ConverterHomeStub.class). These files must be extracted and placed into the client's classpath. Alternatively, the entire JAR file can be made part of the client's classpath.
====================================
Thank you for the quick reply.
Alex.

How to Non-ACC Client connect Sun App Server 8 with SSL

I have create a Rich Client(Non-ACC) that connect to Sun App Server 8 with IIOP(8001) and is working fine. However, when I try to connect to same server with using SSL (8002) and throw exception during lookup a Bean as below.
Please help!!
Server Configuration
================
IIOP Port(s): 8001, 8002, 8003
All listener ports are enabled
Client Coding
===========
env.put(javax.naming.Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop://"+url);
env.put(javax.naming.Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.sun.appserv.naming.S1ASCtxFactory");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType", "jks");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore", "D:\\Sun\\AppServer\\domains\\adsr\\config\\keystore.jks");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword", "password");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "D:\\Sun\\AppServer\\domains\\adsr\\config\\cacerts.jks");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "password");
System.setProperty("com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBSocketFactory", "com.sun.enterprise.iiop.IIOPSSLSocketFactory");
ic = new InitialContext(env);
Object objref = ic.lookup("ejb20/statelessSession/EntControllerHome");
Exception
========
[java] Mar 18, 2005 4:43:59 PM com.sun.corba.ee.spi.logging.LogWrapperBasedoLog
[java] INFO: "IOP00710299: (INTERNAL) Successfully created IIOP listener on the specified host/port: all interfaces/4645"
[java] Mar 18, 2005 4:44:00 PM com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl readFully
[java] WARNING: "IOP00410215: (COMM_FAILURE) Read of full message failed :
bytes requested = 12 bytes read = 7 max wait time = 300 total time spent waiting = 364"
[java] org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: vmcid: SUN minor code: 215 completed: No
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.transportReadTimeoutExceeded(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2629)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.transportReadTimeoutExceeded(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2655)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.readFully(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:676)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.read(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:545)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.giopmsgheaders.MessageBase.readGIOPHeader(MessageBase.java:119)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.CorbaContactInfoBase.createMessageMediator(CorbaContactInfoBase.java:153)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.readBits(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:325)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.handleEvent(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:1175)
[java] at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SelectorImpl.run(SelectorImpl.java:275)
[java] javax.naming.CommunicationException: Can't find SerialContextProvider [Root exception is org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: vmcid: SUN minor code: 208 c
ompleted: Maybe]
[java] at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.getProvider(SerialContext.java:133)
[java] at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:290)
[java] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
[java] at com.shkco.jaf.test.JAFLogonTest.connect(JAFLogonTest.java:110)
[java] at com.shkco.jaf.test.JAFLogonTest.setUp(JAFLogonTest.java:134)
[java] at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:125)
[java] at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
[java] at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)

I don't think tomcat supports the ejb-ref portion of web.xml. If you're using ejbs your best bet is to use a web container within a J2EE implementation.
--ken

Deployed webservices is not compatible on sun app server 9

I build my webservices in automated form provided by excelent wizards of jdev.
I was not changed any name, and let all default descriptors generated to after I try to run it, and it run perfectly on oc4j, who is compatible with j2ee specification....
But when I deploy it on Sun App Server 9(stable), the follow error is throwed
"Invalid url pattern" like my screenshot: http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/4673/errojf1.gif
I have tried to replace this url, but without sucess to run my web services. Someone with more experience can help me?
I need to run it on SunAppServer.
Thanks all

You probably need to add the Sun specific deployment descriptor files to your WAR.
JDeveloper doesn't have a utility to do that automatically for Sun.

How to install j2ee sun app server 8.0 in debain linux

hi guys
i am new to linux and i have downloaded the j2ee sun app server 8.0(linuxversion) from sun.java
in sun.java documentation says first we have to change the mode to excecutable
then he is saying to do this
1. To run the installation program that uses a graphical interface, at the command prompt type the name of the bundle file at the command prompt.
2.To run the installation program that uses the command-line interface, at the command prompt type the name of the bundle file followed by the -console option.
after chmod + x <bundle name >
the next step i am not able to do it
what to do next
any suggestions
regards
sandeep

Hi rlubke
Thanks for the suggestion
1.Change the permission of the bundle file so that you have execute access:
chmod +x <bundle-file-name>
2. To run the installation program that uses a graphical interface, at the command prompt type the name of the bundle file at the command prompt.
3.To run the installation program that uses the command-line interface, at the command prompt type the name of the bundle file followed by the -console option.
Step 1. After chmod + x <bundle name >
Step 2. sun/appserver/# <bundle name>
bash: <bundle name>: command not found
Step 3. sun/appserver# <bundle name>
bash: <bundle name#>: command not found
any suggestions
i have done what u have said now
Step 1. After chmod + x <bundle name >
Step 2. sun/appserver/#./ <bundle name>
Checking available disk space....
Checking Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment...
Extracting Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment files...
Extracting installation files...
Launching Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment....
Error: There are no files requiring installation.
Deleting Temporary files...
Step 3. sun/appserver# <bundle name>
Checking available disk space....
Checking Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment...
Extracting Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment files...
Extracting installation files...
Launching Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment....
Error: There are no files requiring installation.
Deleting Temporary files...
this is what happening excatly

Sun app server problem using asadmin tool

I have installed sun app server and trying to do the simplemessage tutorial. When I run the
ant create-cfcommand I get the following
[exec] Invalid user or password
[exec] CLI137 Command create-jms-resource failed.I have put an echo line in app-server-ant.xml to see what the command is and it is.
[echo] c:/Sun2/SDK/bin/asadmin.bat create-jms-resource --user admin --passwordfile C:/Sun2/SDK/javaee-5-doc-tutorial-1.0_03/javaeetutorial5/examples/common/admin-password.txt --host localhost --port 4850 --restype javax.jms.ConnectionFactory --enabled=true jms/ConnectionFactoryI have checked the password file and it is
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=adminadminAny ideas?
I have checked around about using parameter password but when running this I get an error saying this is not valid and that I should use passwordfile
Kelvin

You haven;t specified the exceptions you r getting ........while starting your default server.
if u r getting exception about InetClass then connect your system with LAN/Internet then your problem will be solved becoz i m using same location address as you specified, space doesn't matter at all - i think so, it is running fine........

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