Pluto/Jboss/Windows...

[Richard Berger <ri...@actiontech.com>]

Folks:
 
I looked around for instructions for installing Pluto on JBoss, but
didn't find any.  So here is what worked for me.  I am sure that there
are cleaner ways to do this - any pointers are appreciated.  
 
Enjoy,
RB
 
Installing Pluto on JBoss 3.2.3 on Windows 2000
0. Basic instructions are at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/pluto/install.html, but others recommend
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-pluto/GETTING-STARTED.html.

1. Download Maven (http://maven.apache.org/).   I accepted all the
defaults.  One gotcha - the install did not add the MAVEN_HOME\bin
directory to my path, so I had to do that manually.
 
2. Get the Pluto source.  I installed the source to c:\jakarta-pluto.
 
3. Modify c:\jakarta-pluto\build.properties\build.properties settings
Starting with the c:\jakarta-pluto\build.properties.sample file, I set
  maven.tomcat.home=C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default
and saved this as build.properties.  
 
4. After adding MAVEN_HOME\bin to my path, I changed directory to the
root of the Pluto project (c:\jakarta-pluto) and ran:
  maven fullDeployment
Everything seemed to complete correctly - and it was actually quite
impressive as maven seemed to go to all the right places and get the
information it needed.
 
5. Then I started JBoss - and noticed many error messages - and of
course the URL http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal failed with an
internal 500 error (context not found IIRC)
 
6. Turns out there were two main problems:
a. Maven deployed pluto.war and testsuite.war as "exploded war files",
but it put them in jboss's default\webapps directory, not in
default/deploy.  However, when I simply copied everything under
default\webapps to default\deploy, things were still failing.  So, I
went with the .war approach instead, and simplied copied pluto.war from
c:\jakarta-pluto\portal\target to default\deploy and I copied
c:\jakarta-pluto\testsuite\target\testsuite.war to default\deploy.  But
then I ran into:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/pluto/PortletContainerException
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1590)
 at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1762)
b. The problem was that Maven deployed pluto-1.0.jar and
portlet-api-1.0.jar to C:\jboss-3.2.3\server\default\shared\lib, rather
than C:\jboss-3.2.3\server\default\lib.  I moved these jar files to
C:\jboss-3.2.3\server\default\lib.
 
7. I then tried http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal/test - and it worked
and the test link on that page worked as well. 
 
Note: I did not need to make the code changes pointed out in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.pluto.user/395, but I have
not yet deployed any portlets, so perhaps I will have to do that as
well.


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