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Saturday January 28, 2006

Win a prize with your story behind scott/tiger? It is the universal Oracle account. Known to thousand, maybe even millions... But who is "scott" and why is his password, "tiger".

If you know, "Do tell."

If you don't, make something entertaining up and share it here (or in your own blog, via a link!)

The prize....

A nice tie-dyed bubble-bursting flame out t-shirt.

The details:

1. It's my shirt. I decide who gets it. Period.
2. Once the comment link closes, entries are, too. Think and type fast.
3. I will make a reasonable attempt to contact the winner. If I cannot get a mailing address from you after making that attempt, the shirt will go to somebody else.
4. If you need to whine about any of this, you probably should not enter.

Equinox Hibernate Spring GlassFish Jerome has an interesting entry about using Spring and Hibernate on GlassFish.

I looked at the entry that Matt Raible posted, and decided to see if I could help him....

I assume that Matt was trying to get Equinox to run on GlassFish. So, I tried to deploy and run it, myself.

Well, I can see why Matt had so much trouble. The installation instructions were very sketchy, but I was able to get things to work. Here is what I did:

1. Get PostgreSQL installed and configured on my Mac... [That was a whole 'nother story].
2. Downloaded Equinox
3. Extracted it into /Volumes/300gb/equinox.
4. Edited build.properties, to add the following

   server.home=/Volumes/300gb/glassfish
   

5. Ran 'ant new -Dapp.name=test3'.
   This created a directory /Volumes/300gb/test3
6. `cd /Volumes/300gb/test3`
7. Ran 'ant test-all'
   The tomcat tests failed, but I pressed onward...
8. Ran 'ant deploy'
   This created an new directory and content under /Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3. I check it out and it looked like a web-app, so it was all good.
9. I started up GlassFish.
10. I ran 'asadmin deploydir /Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3'.
    At this point, I saw exceptions just like Matt's. I took a deep breath and said to myself, "Don't panic, you can beat this. It is just a web-app!"
11. I added the following lines to the server.policy file for the domain.

    grant codeBase "file:/Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-3.1.jar" {
            permission java.util.PropertyPermission "*", "read,write";
            permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
    };
    
    grant codeBase "file:/Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3/WEB-INF/lib/spring-1.2.6.jar" {
            permission java.util.PropertyPermission "*", "read,write";
            permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
    };
    
    grant codeBase "file:/Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3/WEB-INF/lib/cglib-2.1_3.jar" {
            permission java.security.AllPermission;
    };
    
    grant codeBase "file:/Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3/WEB-INF/lib/commons-validator-1.1.3.jar" {
            permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
    };
    
    grant codeBase "file:/Volumes/300gb/glassfish/webapps/test3/WEB-INF/lib/springmodules-validator-0.1.jar" {
            permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
    };
    

    Note: I did have to iterate (start the server, read the log, stop the server, change the server.policy file) a couple times to come up with this list.
12. Once the server started up "clean", I went to "http://localhost:8080/test3" and things looked good.
    
    Until I pressed the "View Demonstration" button. That is when I got the error discussed in this thread.
13. I used the Admin Console to change the server's classpath a bit...
14. At this point, I was able to go through the demo without any problems (AFAICT).

I would have used NetBeans 5.0 RC2 to do this, if I had needed to actually look at real code. (2006-01-28 07:35:53.0) Permalink