I think the problem here was permissions, my non-admin user account does
not have permissions to create directories at the root level (i.e. /temp).
I had to create the directory manually as root.
David
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Reza Rahman <Reza.Rahman_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> FYI, the Derby path really should just be auto-created:
> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.0/manuals/develop/develop14.html. I'll
> double check but it looks like this works properly on Windows only.
>
>
> On 10/5/2013 12:51 PM, Reza Rahman wrote:
>
> The previous problem you were having was very likely a GlassFish bug. The
> promoted version of GlassFish you are running also has knows bugs that
> we've documented on the site FYI.
>
> To change the database location, all you should need to do is change the <webapp.databaseTempDir>
> entry in pom.xml and rebuild. The test-web.xml entry is used only for
> tests.
>
> Could you kindly try out different values for 'databaseTempDir' and see
> if something can work without needing to muck with permissions/creating
> directories? Otherwise, we really need to add this to our setup
> instructions ASAP: https://java.net/projects/cargotracker/pages/NetBeans.
> I would do this myself but I'll take me a while to get a Linux/UNIX version
> up and running...
>
> On 10/5/2013 12:36 PM, David Heffelfinger wrote:
>
> Better, but not a flawless experience.
>
> Originally I got an exception:
>
> java.sql.SQLException: *Failed to create database
> '/temp/cargo-tracker-database', see the next exception for details.*
> at
> org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown
> Source)
> at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source)
>
> I'm on a Linux system, not running as root, and there is no /temp
> directory, so I changed the following line in pom.xml:
>
> <webapp.databaseTempDir>/temp</webapp.databaseTempDir>
>
> to
>
> <webapp.databaseTempDir>/tmp</webapp.databaseTempDir>
>
> Then changed the following line in test-web.xml
>
> <url>jdbc:derby:/temp/test/cargo-tracker-database;create=true</url>
>
> to
>
> <url>jdbc:derby:/tmp/test/cargo-tracker-database;create=true</url>
>
> Rebuilt and redeployed, but I was still getting the exception, I
> searched all over the code for references to "/temp" but couldn't find any.
>
> As a workaround I sudo'ed to root, created /temp and chmod'ed it 777,
> and was finally able to deploy.
>
> FWIW, this is the version of GlassFish I downloaded:
>
>
> http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/glassfish/4.0/promoted/latest-glassfish.zip<http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/glassfish/4.0/promoted/>
>
> Added it to NetBeans ("Services" tab, right click "Servers" | "Add
> Server")
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Reza Rahman <reza.rahman_at_oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> Could you kindly try the nightly build of GlassFish 4 and tell me what
>> happens?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2013, at 12:01 PM, David Heffelfinger <dheffelfinger_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I got the latest source code from SVN as of this morning (revision 123).
>>
>> I loaded the project into NetBeans 7.4 RC2, and built it without a
>> problem.
>>
>> I then attempted to deploy and run the project to GlassFish 4 (included
>> with NetBeans), but was unsuccessful, I got a NoClassDefFoundError.
>>
>> Here is a partial stack trace:
>>
>> SEVERE: Exception while preparing the app :
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
>> org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
>> org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
>> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>> at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:188)
>> at
>> com.sun.gjc.spi.DMManagedConnectionFactory.createManagedConnection(DMManagedConnectionFactory.java:114)
>> at
>> com.sun.enterprise.resource.allocator.LocalTxConnectorAllocator.createResource(LocalTxConnectorAllocator.java:87)
>> at
>> com.sun.enterprise.resource.pool.ConnectionPool.createSingleResource(ConnectionPool.java:907)
>> at
>> com.sun.enterprise.resource.pool.ConnectionPool.createResource(ConnectionPool.java:1189)
>> at
>> com.sun.enterprise.resource.pool.datastructure.RWLockDataStructure.addResource(RWLockDataStructure.java:98)
>>
>> I made sure I had derby.jar under .../domain1/lib but the problem
>> persists.
>>
>> I would look deeper into it but unfortunately I'm busy with some other
>> stuff.
>>
>> Is this a known issue or am I missing something here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
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