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Saturday January 28, 2006

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