Hi!

I'm trying to deploy JForum on JBoss AS 5 without success, I've receive some exceptions. There is any experience about deploying in JBoss?

Regards!

You need to do the following for JForum-2.3.2.war to be successfully deployed on JBoss AS 5.0
Here I use jboss-5.0.1.GA as an example.
1.Create a new directory jforum.war under C:\jboss-5.0.1.GA\server\default\deploy
2.Unpack the jforum-2.3.2.war into C:\jboss-5.0.1.GA\server\default\deploy\jforum.war(You can use 7-Zip or other unzip tool)
3.Modify jforum.war\WEB-INF\web.xml
3.1 Remove <distributable/>
3.2 Remove DataSource jdbc/JForumDB

<resource-ref>

        <description>DB Connection</description>

        <res-ref-name>jdbc/JForumDB</res-ref-name>

        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>

        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>

    </resource-ref>

The rest of web.xml should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app id="JForum" version="2.4"

    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

    <display-name>JForum - Powering Communities</display-name>

    <description>Open Source Java Forum Software</description>



    <!-- Clickstream -->

    <filter>

        <filter-name>clickstream-jforum</filter-name>

        <filter-class>net.jforum.util.legacy.clickstream.ClickstreamFilter</filter-class>

    </filter>



    <filter-mapping>

        <filter-name>clickstream-jforum</filter-name>

        <url-pattern>*.page</url-pattern>

    </filter-mapping>

    

    <listener>

        <listener-class>net.jforum.ForumSessionListener</listener-class>

    </listener>

    

	<listener>

		<listener-class>net.jforum.ContextListener</listener-class>

	</listener>



    <!-- JForum Controller -->

    <servlet>

        <servlet-name>jforum</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>net.jforum.JForum</servlet-class>

        <init-param>

            <param-name>development</param-name>

            <param-value>true</param-value>

        </init-param>

    </servlet>



    <!-- Installer -->

    <servlet>

        <servlet-name>install</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>net.jforum.InstallServlet</servlet-class>

    

        <init-param>

            <param-name>development</param-name>

            <param-value>true</param-value>

        </init-param>

    </servlet>

    

    <!-- Mapping -->

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>install</servlet-name>

         <url-pattern>/install/install.page</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

       

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>jforum</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>*.page</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

    

    <!-- SESSION -->

    <session-config>

        <session-timeout>5</session-timeout>

    </session-config>

    

    <welcome-file-list>

        <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>

        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>

    </welcome-file-list>



    <!-- 

    <error-page>

       <error-code>404</error-code>

       <location>/missing.jsp</location>

    </error-page>

     -->



    <!-- SSO -->

    <!-- Example of SSO configuration -->

    <!--

    <security-role> 

        <role-name>user</role-name> 

    </security-role>



    <security-constraint>

        <web-resource-collection>

            <web-resource-name>Restricted Area</web-resource-name>

            <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

        </web-resource-collection>

     

        <auth-constraint>

            <role-name>user</role-name>

        </auth-constraint>

    </security-constraint>



    <login-config>

        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>

        <realm-name>REALM NAME HERE</realm-name>

    </login-config>

    -->

</web-app>

4.Open a command window and go to C:\jboss-5.0.1.GA\bin directory
5.Execute run.bat to fire up JBoss
6.Open a browser and visit http://localhost:8080/jforum/
7.Follows the installation wizard to complete JForum installation

Hi,

Getting deployment error if i tried to install jforum-2.3.2 in jboss 6.0.0 final but its working fine if i tried to install jforum-2.3.2 in jboss AS 5.0, Can you pls look attachment for the error log and guide me to resolve this issue.


Thanks

There are some version conflicts of the jboss-xxx.jar which JForum used between different JBoss AS versions.
Solution: Just remove the three jboss-xxx.jar jar files under jforum.war/WEB-INF/lib:
For JForum 2.3.4:

jboss-common-core-2.2.19.GA.jar

jboss-logging-spi-2.1.2.GA.jar

jboss-transaction-api-1.0.1.GA.jar

And restart JBoss, everything will be fine.

Hi andowson,

Thanks for your reply, Still i am getting the error if i removed the jar as you mentioned. Please check the attachement and let me know.

Thanks

Please make sure that you can start JBoss normally before deploy JForum 2.3.4.
I see some error message about JBoss itself:

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: E:\Software_path\jboss\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml (The system cannot find the path specified)

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: E:\Software_path\jboss\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\web.xml (The system cannot find the path specified)

Hi andowson,

Yes i can start jboss with out jforum.

Thanks for your reply.

OK, please follow my steps:
1. Download jforum-2.3.4.war
2. Unpack jforum-2.3.4.war into jforum.war directory under D:\jboss-6.0.0.Final\server\default\deploy
3. Go to D:\jboss-6.0.0.Final\server\default\deploy\jforum.war\WEB-INF\lib, and delete the three jboss-*.jar
4. Open a cmd prompt
5. Change directory to D:\jboss-6.0.0.Final\bin
6. Execute run.bat
7. Wait for JBoss to load each war and show the message:

21:16:02,167 INFO [org.jboss.bootstrap.impl.base.server.AbstractServer] JBossAS
[6.0.0.Final "Neo"] Started in 3m:40s:877ms

8. Open a browser, and visit http://localhost:8080/jforum/

PS. I'm using JDK 6.0 Update 35 on Windows 7 32-bit.