Getting the J2EE Duke’s Bank Example running on JBoss-4.2.2.GA

This was annoying, but understandable. The tutorial “patch” to the Sun J2EE-1.4 tutorial, distributed by JBoss.org, is difficult to find [it's a zip inside a zip, here], and also needs some additions to its classpath to get a correct compile.

For the good of the internet, here’s what to do:

Unzip the startguide40.zip package.
Move jbossj2ee-src.zip into the j2eetutorial directory.
Chdir into that dir.
Unzip the jbossj2ee-src.zip.
After it’s unzipped, edit jboss-build.properties, and put the location of your jboss install in jboss.home
Go to examples/bank/.
Edit jboss-build.xml, and modify the build.classpath to appear as follows:

Edit src/com/jboss/ebank/WSClient.java, and look for the import lines re: ServiceFactoryImpl and ServiceImpl. Modify them to look as follows:


    import org.jboss.ws.core.jaxrpc.client.ServiceFactoryImpl;
    import org.jboss.ws.core.jaxrpc.client.ServiceImpl;

After that, hopefully the instructions will work. My understanding is that versions of JBoss-4.2X are backportings of popular 5.X features, and they’ve probably ceased updating the Getting Started guides while work is prioritized on the 5.X branch. No harm done, I suppose.

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It does not work for JBoss 4.2.3 on RH Linux

Just to add to the solution given above, with JBoss 5, the change would be:

Go to examples/bank/. Edit jboss-build.xml, and modify the build.classpath to appear as follows:

<!-- The build classpath -->
<path id="build.classpath">
    <path refid="client.classpath"/>
<fileset dir="${jboss.server}/lib/">
        <include name="javax.servlet*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
<fileset dir="${jboss.home}/common/lib/">
        <include name="servlet-api.jar"/>
    <include name="jsp-api.jar"/>
   <include name="jboss-javaee.jar"/>
    </fileset>
 </path>

Gordon Luk

Getting the J2EE Duke’s Bank Example running on JBoss-4.2.2.GA

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