revisited: migration from open esb + glassfish to apache tomcat + ode

please see http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2010/03/migration-from-open-esb-glassfish-to.html for prior knowledge about the topic..

i have to migrate our processes from glassfish+open esb to apache tomcat+apache ode..

in this post, i simply note down differences or additions to the above prior post.

first of all, this time, i used latest versions:

• apache ode : 1.3.4 instead of 1.3.3
• apache tomcat: 7.0.5 instead of 6.0.24
• metro: 2.0.1 instead of 2.0

CATALINA_HOME, JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME environment variables are defined properly.

While installing metro on tomcat, i used the command

ant -f metro-on-tomcat.xml install

and there is luckily no problems due to version changes..

the correct arrangement of web.xml and creation of sun-jaxws.xml under project-home/web/WEB-INF is not straightforward this time, since there is a number of web services deployed in the same .war file. so, i want to explain the details..

here some links:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/webservices/webservices/docs/2.0/jaxws/jaxws-war.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jws9.html

a small tip: after rewriting web.xml and sun-jaxws.xml, in order to prepare the .war file under dist folder, right click and build the project in netbeans ide.. choosing clean and build results in wiping out sun-jaxws.xml and overwriting web.xml..

a sample web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>




<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<description>Balistika2010Ws</description>

<display-name>Balistika2010Ws</display-name>

<listener>

<listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>

</listener>

<servlet>

<description>JAX-WS endpoint - Service1</description>

<display-name>Service1</display-name>

<servlet-name>Service1</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>

<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>Service1</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/ode/processes/Service1</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

<servlet>

<description>JAX-WS endpoint - Service2</description>

<display-name>Service2</display-name>

<servlet-name>Service2</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>

<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>Service2</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/ode/processes/Service2</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

<session-config>

<session-timeout>60</session-timeout>

</session-config>

<welcome-file-list>

<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>

</welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

a sample corresponding sun-jaxws.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>




<endpoints xmlns='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime' version='2.0'>

<endpoint

name='Service1'

implementation='tr.gov.tubitak.service.Service1'

url-pattern='/ode/processes/Service1'/>

<endpoint

name='Service2'

implementation='tr.gov.tubitak.service.Service2'

url-pattern='/ode/processes/Service2'/>

</endpoints>

The url-pattern attributes in web.xml and sun-jaxws.xml should match.

The implementation attribute is the web service itself..

However, tomcat throws the following error:

SEVERE: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to create JAXBContext

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to create JAXBContext

at com.sun.xml.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.createJAXBContext(AbstractSEIModelImpl.java:166)

...

Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 2 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions

javax.persistence.EntityManager is an interface, and JAXB can't handle interfaces.

this problem is related to the following location:

at javax.persistence.EntityManager

at public javax.persistence.EntityManager tr.gov.tubitak.uzay.balistika2010.sas.service.series.jaxws.MergeAbsEvidGrpsInCase.arg1

at tr.gov.tubitak.uzay.balistika2010.sas.service.series.jaxws.MergeAbsEvidGrpsInCase

javax.persistence.EntityManager does not have a no-arg default constructor.

The error is due to the fact that i pass EntityManager between (public) method calls in order to preserve my transactions.. see this for details: http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2010/12/persistence-using-jpa.html

so, how to fix this? for now, i redesigned the code in such a way that EntityManager passing methods are all defined as private..

in fact, defining problematic methods as private solved some other weird errors as well.. i do not record them, since i did not understand their nature!!

at this point, web services are all deployed successfully and i can see wsdl s..

now the bpel part.. if you do not bind all partner links that is used in mentioned process in deploy.xml, you get the following error:

16:52:58,729 ERROR [NStateLatch] Latch error, was releasing for state 1 but actually in -1

16:52:58,731 WARN [ProcessStoreImpl] Deployment failed within the engine, store undeploying process.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: SecurityPL must be bound to an endpoint in deploy.xml

at org.apache.ode.bpel.engine.BpelProcess.setRoles(BpelProcess.java:519)




deploy.xml of ode-home/examples/DynPartner is a good sample..

now, it is time to test deployed processes from a java client.. i created client side artifacts from manually written wsdl in the deployed bpel module, not from the endpoint itself..

when i called the process from the client, i got the following error:

SEVERE: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.(I)V

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.(I)V

at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.(DebuggingClassWriter.java:47)

...

at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:126)

at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:51)

at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:33)

at tr.gov.tubitak.uzay.balistika2010.sas.dao.base.BlsEntityManager.getEm(BlsEntityManager.java:20)

at tr.gov.tubitak.service.Service1.method1(Service1.java:116)

no need to say, the process calls a web service which persists data inside a transaction.. according to http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-24287.html, the error was due to conflicting asm.jar s around.. actually, i faced the same problem before in a different environment: http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2010/02/javalangnosuchmethoderror.html

in deployed web services library, asm.jar was of version 1.5.3; upgrading it to version 3.3.1 solved the mentioned error..

last update on 29.12.2010, 11:30..