Workshop 3.2 JPA Tutorial Problem

Question

I think I must be missing a step in my setup/configuration. I've gone through the entire JPA tutorial that's packaged with Workshop Studio 3.2, and am now attempting to test with an Apache Tomcat 5.5 container as described in the directions.
When I attempt to add a customer from the pages/addCustomer.jsf page, I hit an exception in the CustomerDAO_Kodo.java class. Specifically, it's the emf.createEntitityManager() method, and the caught exception appears to be Kodo-related:
No product license key was found. Please ensure that your license key is specified in your configuration file (or in the "General" tab of your IDE''s configuration dialog), that the key has not expired, and that it is the correct key for the version of the product that you are running. If you need to request an evaluation key, please go to http://www.solarmetric.com, or contact [email protected]
Is there an additional step I need to take in order to have the license recognized from w/in my Tomcat server?
Regards,
-jmh

Answer 1

Please describe "...as well as several other places in the packaged application."?
What is the exact version of Tomcat? And what version of Java are you using to run the server?
Try this workaround and update the outcome:
- In Server view, delete the tomcat server configuration
- Recreate and add workshop-jpa-tutorial
- start the server in debug mode
FYI, Kodo license info can be specified in persistence.xml file or in license.bea file (which is placed at root of the classpath).
It is true that the license.bea mechanism used by Studio should work out of the box without any additional configuration.
License workaround:
register at http://www.solarmetric.com/login/login.php
activate & login into the account
http://www.solarmetric.com/Software/Evaluate/ - Click "Kodo JDO 3.4.1" and accept the license - NO NEED TO DOWNLOAD. AN EVALUATION LICENSE KEY WILL BE SENT TO YOUR EMAIL-ID
Open persistence.xml file and add the following property<property name="kodo.LicenseKey" value="<kodo.LicenseKey value>"/>
Try to run the app on tomcat serverNOTE:
Please zip up the tutorial and send it [email protected] to debug the issue.