Using the JazzPlainJavaClient on WebSphere App Server
We have a servlet that will run in one appserver that calls RTC running on a different machine. If the servlet is running on Tomcat, we can put the jars from the JazzPlainJavaClient in the WEB-INF/lib directory and all is well. It can also go in the shared/lib directory so that multiple apps running on this instance can access RTC (it doesn't matter whether RTC is running on Tomcat or WAS).
But if the servlet is running on WAS 6.1, I can't get it to work. If I put the JazzPlainJavaClient jars in the WEB-INF/lib directory within a WAR file and deploy it to WAS, when you start the servlet app you get errors about plugins not being resolved, and when you run the servlet, you get various exceptions thrown. I also tried putting the jars in the lib/ext directory of the app server; then the servlet app didn't throw any errors when it started, but got the same errors when the servlet ran--the log is below. So how can we deploy a servlet to WAS that calls RTC? Here's the log from a run of the servlet on WAS 6.1 Express. You can see it gets to com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform.startup, so I believe it's seeing the client library jars: 0000001e SystemErr R log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet). 0000001e SystemErr R log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. 0000001e SystemErr R java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException 0000001e SystemErr R at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:415) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.RegistrySupport.translate(RegistrySupport.java:34) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.runtime.spi.RegistryStrategy.translate(RegistryStrategy.java:152) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionRegistry.translate(ExtensionRegistry.java:709) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionsParser.translate(ExtensionsParser.java:614) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionsParser.parseConfigurationElementAttributes(ExtensionsParser.java:405) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionsParser.handleExtensionState(ExtensionsParser.java:312) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionsParser.startElement(ExtensionsParser.java:554) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionsParser.parseManifest(ExtensionsParser.java:383) 0000001e SystemErr R at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionRegistry.addContribution(ExtensionRegistry.java:876) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.StandaloneExtensionRegistry.<init>(StandaloneExtensionRegistry.java:57) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.InternalTeamPlatform.initializeRegistry(InternalTeamPlatform.java:233) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.InternalTeamPlatform.start(InternalTeamPlatform.java:102) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform.startup(TeamPlatform.java:48) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.rfrs.sample.impl.JazzSampleImpl$ServerStarter.<init>(JazzSampleImpl.java:78) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.rfrs.sample.impl.JazzSampleImpl.startPlatform(JazzSampleImpl.java:483) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.rfrs.sample.impl.JazzSampleImpl.doTheWork(JazzSampleImpl.java:105) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.rfrs.sample.servlet.JazzServletExample.doGet(JazzServletExample.java:57) 0000001e SystemErr R at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743) 0000001e SystemErr R at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:989) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:501) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:464) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.extension.InvokerExtensionProcessor.handleRequest(InvokerExtensionProcessor.java:263) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3168) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:254) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:811) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:1433) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:96) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:465) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:394) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:274) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminators(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:214) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:113) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:152) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:213) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.fireCompletionActions(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:195) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:136) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:194) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:741) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:863) 0000001e SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1469) |
5 answers
I'm not sure why the ExtensionRegistry would have problems only in WAS.
This is a good candidate for a new workitem. Can you open a workitem that describes this problem and perhaps include a small example WAR that demonstrates the problem? Matt Lavin Jazz Server Team ajberner wrote: We have a servlet that will run in one appserver that calls RTC |
So this problem appears to still exist in RTC 3.0 plain java client library usage within WAS 6.1. I simply wrapped one of the snippets (3) in a servlet and get the ExtensionRegistry error after the TeamPlatform.startup() call along with the exception. Based on another post, I added the following,
RepositoryPackage.eINSTANCE.eContents(); for which I have no idea why and got the following:
Is there a workaround to get the API working within a WAS6.1 context? |
Hi,
I also added the RepositoryPackage.eINSTANCE.eContents(); and worked around the issue and is now facing the same problem as you are.... I posted the question here: http://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5458 Anyway, I can further elaborate the exception of "Missing a component foundation tag"... It simply means that the code cannot get the correct Client version (which should be either 2.0 or 3.0 depending on which RTC you uses) So this problem appears to still exist in RTC 3.0 plain java client library usage within WAS 6.1. I simply wrapped one of the snippets (3) in a servlet and get the ExtensionRegistry error after the TeamPlatform.startup() call along with the exception. Based on another post, I added the following,RepositoryPackage.eINSTANCE.eContents(); |
This issue is being discussed again now in https://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24415
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My solution was MAKING RTC Plain Client jars as EAR/Utility Jars AND this Utility Jar's classloader mode as PARENT_LAST. (See https://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20933)
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