Running Activiti Explorer (5.13) with JBoss5.1 EAP

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jeisen

Hello,

to have the latest activiti explorer (from activiti version 5.13) running on your jboss5.1EAP, you have to do following:

1. copy 'activity-explorer.war' to deploy folder
2. add new file: 'jboss-classloading.xml' into the 'WEB-INF' folder inside the war. The content of jboss-classloading is:

<classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
  name="activiti-explorer.war" 
  import-all="true"
  export-all="NON_EMPTY"
  domain="activiti-explorer-domain"
  parent-first="false"
>
</classloading>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

4. Delete file 'xml-apis-1.3.04.jar' inside 'WEB-INF\lib'
5. Copy database driver into 'WEB-INF\lib', adjust 'WEB-INF\classes\db.properties' and prepare your database witht the SQL scripts that can be found inside folder: '\activiti-5.13\database\create\'

Now you can start the server and you will have activit-explorer running on a Jboss5.1EAP, using a Oracle-Database.

This article will prevent you from errors like:

2013-07-09 09:13:00,861 INFO  [main] org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerAdapter.log:601 - 09:13:00,858 [main] ERROR org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader  - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:412)‍‍‍

See also: <url>https://community.jboss.org/thread/152151</url>

2013-07-09 09:23:08,674 ERROR [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart:3914 - Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger.log(Lorg/slf4j/Marker;Ljava/lang/String;ILjava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Throwable;)V
   at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLocationAwareLog.info(SLF4JLocationAwareLog.java:159)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:272)‍‍‍‍

See also: <url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3519978/logging-framework-incompatibility</url>.  …something about SLF4j from JBoss ('\jboss-eap-5.1.0\jboss-as\common\lib') against SLF4j from activiti-explorer.jar.

Regards
Jörg

frederikherema1

Thanks a lot for sharing this!!