Re: JBoss installation

> houcun wrote:
>> Dave:
>>
>>  From roller 1.2 until 3.1 , We use jboss application server and
>> postgresql , but you tell us,
>> Roller 4.0 doesn't support Hibernate &Jobss , I am hard hit. :(~~~
>> Do you want join OpenJPA team and PK Hibernate &Jboss ?
>
>>> The best approach is to figure out how to allow Roller to use the
>>> OpenJPA 0.9.7 jars that are shipped with Roller. Roller 4.0 was never
>>> successfully tested with Hibernate/JPA.
>
> I'm still not completely clear on how JPA determines which provider to
> instantiate... but from what I've seen, if you have the jars for two
> different providers available, it gets confused and causes errors like
> this.  Unfortunately JBoss provides the hibernate jars as part of the
> app server itself, and this seems to cause problems deploying Roller
> with OpenJPA on JBoss.
>
> What I do is this, and it seems to work fine.  Bundle the roller war
> into an ear file, and in the ear file put a jboss-app.xml
> with the following:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>
> <jboss-app>
>   <loader-repository>
>   org.openqabal:loader=roller-ear.ear
>      <loader-repository-config>
>      java2ParentDelegation=false
>      </loader-repository-config>
>   </loader-repository>
> </jboss-app>
>
>
> This limits the classloader scoping to the ear and turns off
> parent delegation (eg, searching container supplied classes first).
>
> Note that if you do this, you'll need an application.xml as well,and
> both that and the jboss-app.xml should go in the META-INF dir of the
> ear file.
>
>
> TTYL,
>
>