Seam 1.1.0.GA On GlassFish

To get prior releases of Seam running on GlassFish, you had to patch some Seam application modules. With this release, there is no patchwork necessary - the folks at JBoss (RedHat) have done a great job of streamlining the process. In fact, after you download and unpack the Seam 1.1.0.GA release from here, you will see a GlassFish sample application (which is essentially the booking application) under the "jboss-seam-1.1.0.GA\examples\glassfish" directory. In this entry, we will outline the steps to get this release of Seam running on GlassFish with Java Persistence.

Prerequisites:

1. A working build environment with ant, at least JDK 5, and GlassFish. I've run this version of Seam successfully on the GlassFish v1 FCS (v1_ur1-p01-b02) and GlassFish v2 (Build 30) builds.

Seam Setup:

1. Download and install the Seam 1.1.0GA release from here.  You should see a jboss-seam-1.1.0.GA directory.
2. Go to the jboss-seam-1.1.0.GA/examples/glassfish directory.
3. Build the sample application using the "toplink" build target:
   • ant clean; ant toplink
   The "toplink" target builds the EAR file using toplink as the JPA provider.

Deploy the application:

1. Start up GlassFish:   <glassfish install dir>/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1
2. Start the database:  <glassfish install dir>/bin/asadmin start-database
3. Deploy jboss-seam-1.1.0.GA/examples/glassfish/build/jboss-seam-glassfish.ear
• Note that deploying the application will create the necessary application database tables, and undeploying the application will remove the application database tables.

Load the database:

1. Get the sql script that will be used to load the database from here and unpack it to some directory. You should see the script: import.sql
2. Go to the directory that contains the import.sql script.
3. Set your CLASSPATH to include:
   • <glassfish install dir>/javadb/lib/derbyclient.jar
   • <glassfish install dir>/javadb/lib/derbytools.jar
   • <glassfish install dir>/javadb/lib/derby.jar
4. Get into the "ij" utility: java org.apache.derby.tools.ij
5. At the "ij>" prompt:
   • ij> DRIVER 'org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver';
   • ij> CONNECT 'jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/sun-appserv-samples';
   • ij> run 'import.sql';

• Now the Seam application tables should be loaded.

Run the application:

• visit localhost:8080/jboss-seam-glassfish