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RE: Evaluating Glassfish

From: Jason Lee <lee_at_iecokc.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:44:08 -0600

Personally, I'd try the FCS branch (v1). The v2 branch has seemed a bit
flaky as of late.

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Jason Lee, SCJP
Programmer/Analyst
http://www.iec-okc.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew May [mailto:amay_at_ingenta.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
> Subject: Evaluating Glassfish
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm spending some time evaluating Glassfish for use in a
> future project which we intend to use the JavaEE 5 spec.
> Previously we've been using JBoss for J2EE 1.3/1.4 projects.
>
> I've mostly been using b28 of Glassfish v2 on Linux (b30
> since today), and whilst I've been largely impressed, I have
> been having a number of problems, both with broken things in
> the admin interface and problems with webservices - I'm just
> putting together a small little application to try out
> various features.
>
> Being new to Glassfish I wasn't sure whether it was
> appropriate for me to file a number of bugs without first
> posting to a mailing list or forum. I've yet to get a grasp
> for the scale or dynamic of the community surrounding the project.
>
> So anyway, here are the issues I've been experiencing, and
> I'd appreciate some advice over whether I should file bugs for these:
>
> Webservices:
>
> * Problems deploying a SLSB annotated with @WebService. The
> problem seems to be due to having an overloaded method (error
> messsage is: Request wrapper bean names must be unique and
> must not clash with other generated classes). However, I
> expected to be able to work around that by adding
> operationName to the @WebMethod annotation, but that doesn't help.
> I'm new to all of this, so possibly it's my misunderstanding
> of webservices rather than a bug.
>
> * Unable to use wsgen (trying to get more information on the
> errors above) - fails with a large number of warnings/errors
> due to the annotations of my SLSB and then fails with a NPE
> at
> com.sun.tools.internal.ws.processor.modeler.annotation.WebServ
> iceAP.isSubtype(WebServiceAP.java:418).
> Calling wsgen like this: wsgen -cp
> build/classes:~/glassfish/lib/javaee.jar
> music.api.MusicManagerBean
>
> Admin Console:
>
> I gathered that there's been a fairly recent switch to JSF
> for the Admin Console - which may be the cause of some of the
> problems I've hit.
>
> Here are a couple of specific examples:
>
> * Test button for webservice includes extra / (e.g.
> http://localhost:8080//MusicManagerService/MusicManager?tester
). WSDL link has the same problem.
>
> * Unable to launch Web Start for a client application (part
> of an EAR) - error is:
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException while attempting
> to process a 'beforeCreate'
> event for 'linksCluster'
> which seems to have been caused by:
> Operation :listReferencees is not found in applications MBean
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
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