http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-17549
On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Gustavo Henrique Orair wrote:
> Could you please inform the link of the Issue created?
>
> I would like to watch this issue.
>
> Best regards,
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> Gustavo Henrique Orair
> Mestre em Ciência da Computação - MSc in Computer Science
> Universidade Federal de Minas
> Gerais
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> 2011/11/1 Tim Quinn <tim.quinn_at_oracle.com>
> Orair kindly provided me a sample EAR in private e-mail.
>
> I was able to recreate the problem using your EAR.
>
> Your app client JAR's manifest should contain a setting for Main-
> Class, but it does not.
>
> The Java EE spec requires that app clients specify the main class.
> GlassFish deploys the app successfully because it allows users to
> specify the main class on the appclient command if that is how they
> launch the app client. The Java Web Start support in GlassFish, on
> the other hand, requires you to comply with the EE spec and indicate
> the main class. The null pointer exception occurs because Java Web
> Start is trying to locate the class specified by your Main-Class,
> and since the Main-Class manifest entry does not exist the main
> class name has never been set.
>
> Ideally GlassFish would warn about this at deployment time and do a
> much better job detecting this error and reporting it at runtime
> during an app client launch. I will open an issue about this.
>
> But if you correct your project to specify the main class then your
> app client should launch correctly.
>
> - Tim
>
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Gustavo Henrique Orair wrote:
>
>> I am using Glassfish + Maven.
>>
>> I am generating an EAR with an application Client inside.
>>
>> The resulting ear has all dependent libraries in EAR's lib directory.
>>
>> When I try to launch the Java Web Start, it fails. The message is
>> not too clear...
>>
>> Checking the server.log I can see the following error:
>> [#|2011-10-25T19:34:46.196-0200|SEVERE|glassfish3.1.1|
>> javax
>> .enterprise
>> .system.container.appclient.org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws|
>> _ThreadID=26;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Adapter[/___JWSappclient/___app/
>> EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOT] EconoInfo-OCONSI-
>> PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOTClient/lib/jaxb-impl-2.2.2.jar
>>
>> I searched for EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-
>> SNAPSHOTClient.jar and found in it:
>> domain1/generated/xml/EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOT/
>> EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOTClient.jar
>>
>> This JAR file just includes AppClientGroupFacade and Manifest file:
>> META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
>> org/glassfish/appclient/client/AppClientGroupFacade.class
>>
>> The original EAR (found in domain1/applications/EconoInfo-OCONSI-
>> PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOT) contains the correct dependency:
>> domain1/applications/EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOT/
>> lib/jaxb-impl-2.2.2.jar
>>
>> The META-INF/application.xml generated by Maven has the following
>> content:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <application 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/application_6.xsd
>> " version="6">
>> <description>Módulo EAR do Povoador do OCONSI</description>
>> <display-name>EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR</display-name>
>> <module>
>> <java>EconoInfo-ISEF-Testes-0.6.5-SNAPSHOT.jar</java>
>> </module>
>> <library-directory>lib</library-directory>
>> </application>
>>
>> There isn't an application-client.xml inside Application Client jar.
>>
>> How may I correct this problem to make Glassfish generate domain1/
>> generated/xml/EconoInfo-OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOT/EconoInfo-
>> OCONSI-PovoadorEAR-0.1.1-SNAPSHOTClient.jar including the needed
>> libraries?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Orair.
>>
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