2.0.0 preview on jboss 4.0.5 w/ jboss-portal 2.4.1 - almost

I got the same javascript issue with JEMS Installer 1.2.0.GA set (AS 4.0.5.GA, EJB3 1.0.0.CR9-patch1-jboss4.0.5, Portal 2.4.1.SP1, JBossWS 1.0.3.SP1) + Alfresco 1.4 Community. Navigation within portlet does not work at all because of the error.

Error: document.forms.dashboard['dashboard:modelist'] has no properties
Line: 1

paulhh

Does this work ok for you if you use the JBoss Portal 2.2 from the JBoss Bundle?

Cheers
Paul.

Does this work ok for you if you use the JBoss Portal 2.2 from the JBoss Bundle?

Cheers
Paul.

Hi Paul,
Your JBoss bundle for Alfresco 1.4 works just fine.
But I have never succeded to run Alfresco v1.4 neigher v2.0 on JBoss 2.4 Portal.

If you ever tested Alfresco 2.0 (or 1.4) against JBoss Portal 2.4 - what build it was?

alfresco-community-jboss-2.0.0Preview.zip works good itself. It's based on JBossPortal 2.2.
Evet though if replace alfresco.war with the 2.0 release version from alfresco-community-war-2.0.0.zip one (adding missed jboss and portal discriptors from alfresco-community-jboss-2.0.0Preview.zip's war) I've failed to run Alfresco portlet within portal. Alfresco Portlet throws exception so got not started in portal at all.

It'd be really helpful if you test Alfresco work within 2.4 JBoss portal. In case of success, information on how to run Alfresco 2.0 in JBoss Portal 2.4 (latest stable release) would be really helpful to all your users. In the moment there is absolutely NO such information on your site, as I can see.

Thank you,
Andrey

FYI I have successfully tweaked Alfresco 2.0 to work with the latest JBossPortal 2.4.1 release. It required a couple of minor code changes which are not present in the current 2.0 release however. I will commit the changes to our SVN HEAD repo probably tommorow and provide instructions on how to deploy (easy enough).

Thanks,

Kevin

FYI I have successfully tweaked Alfresco 2.0 to work with the latest JBossPortal 2.4.1 release. It required a couple of minor code changes which are not present in the current 2.0 release however. I will commit the changes to our SVN HEAD repo probably tommorow and provide instructions on how to deploy (easy enough).

Thanks,

Kevin

Thank you very much, Kevin
for attention you guys put to running Alfresco 2.0 in JBoss Portal 2.4!
This is a really great news.
Wait for the instructions.

Thank you,
Andrey

The instructions can be found here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Build_and_Deploy_WAR_JBossPortal

Hope this helps,

Kevin

I tried building the 574 revision with "ant build-jboss" and got the following compile errors:

init:
     [echo] Starting build for repository at 12:52

common.compile-java:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\kam\root\projects\repository\build\classes
    [javac] Compiling 1725 source files to C:\kam\root\projects\repository\build\classes
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\repo\search\impl\lucene\LuceneT
est2.java:294: warning: unmappable character for encoding Cp1252
    [javac]         mlText.addValue(new Locale("ja"), "πÃ¢?πÃ¢Ã¨πÃ¢Ã¨");
    [javac]                                              ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\repo\search\impl\lucene\LuceneT
est2.java:2956: warning: unmappable character for encoding Cp1252
    [javac]         sp.setQuery("@" + LuceneQueryParser.escape(mlQName.toString()) + ":πÃ¢?πÃ¢Ã¨πÃ¢Ã¨");
    [javac]                                                                              ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\repo\search\impl\lucene\QueryPa
rser.java:16: warning: [deprecation] org.apache.lucene.document.DateField in org.apache.lucene.docum
ent has been deprecated
    [javac] import org.apache.lucene.document.DateField;
    [javac]                                  ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\filesys\ftp\FTPSrvSession.java:
4174: warning: sun.text.Normalizer is Sun proprietary API and may be removed in a future release
    [javac]                             cmd = sun.text.Normalizer.compose( new String(m_inbuf, 0, rd
len, "UTF-8"), false, 0);
    [javac]                                           ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\filesys\ftp\FTPSrvSession.java:
4174: cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : method compose(java.lang.String,boolean,int)
    [javac] location: class sun.text.Normalizer
    [javac]                             cmd = sun.text.Normalizer.compose( new String(m_inbuf, 0, rd
len, "UTF-8"), false, 0);
    [javac]                                                      ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\repo\search\impl\lucene\QueryPa
rser.java:448: warning: [deprecation] org.apache.lucene.document.DateField in org.apache.lucene.docu
ment has been deprecated
    [javac]       part1 = DateField.dateToString(d1);
    [javac]               ^
    [javac] C:\kam\root\projects\repository\source\java\org\alfresco\repo\search\impl\lucene\QueryPa
rser.java:449: warning: [deprecation] org.apache.lucene.document.DateField in org.apache.lucene.docu
ment has been deprecated
    [javac]       part2 = DateField.dateToString(d2);
    [javac]               ^
    [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
    [javac] 1 error
    [javac] 6 warnings

BUILD FAILED
C:\kam\root\common\build.xml:53: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\kam\root\common\common.xml:24: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Total time: 23 seconds‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Did anyone succeed in running this?

I tried building the 574 revision with "ant build-jboss" and got the following compile errors:

Did anyone succeed in running this?

Yep, just compiled as per instructions.

svn co -r 574 https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/

set JBOSS_HOME

\home\java\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin\ant.bat build-jboss

PS. Portal is from jems-installer-1.2.0.GA.jar - portal option.
java version "1.5.0_09" (check if yours 1.5)

I tried building the 574 revision with "ant build-jboss" and got the following compile errors:

….

Did anyone succeed in running this?

Which JDK are you using?

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the instructions. Appreciate that.

I've successfully compiled Alfresco 2.0 for JBoss Portal 2.4 as in my post above.

I can run now the system and see alfresco portlet rendered within,

BUT:

I can not move anywhere from the page!! Clicking say on Login, I got javascript error:

Line: 120
Char: 2
Error: 'document.forms.dashboard.dashboard:act' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://localhost:8080/portal/portal/default/Alfresco‍‍‍‍‍

Clicking on 'My Home' I got similar error:

Line: 171
Char: 1
Error: 'document.forms.dashboard.dashboard:sidebar-body:navigator' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://localhost:8080/portal/portal/default/Alfresco‍‍‍‍‍

IE6, FF2 - same stuff.

PS. See my initial post in this thread - same issues!
Kevin, can YOU navigate furter that the initial page?

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the instructions. Appreciate that.

I've successfully compiled Alfresco 2.0 for JBoss Portal 2.4 as in my post above.

I can run now the system and see alfresco portlet rendered within,

BUT:

I can not move anywhere from the page!! Clicking say on Login, I got javascript error:
…

IE6, FF2 - same stuff.

PS. See my initial post in this thread - same issues!
Kevin, can YOU navigate furter that the initial page?

I can indeed - I assumed the initial problem you reported was an old issue of some kind as I haven't seen it. I performed the code changes and then wrote the instructions that you've used, I've also tested "basic" stuff like browsing around, uploading content, downloading content, dashboard, rules, actions etc. and didn't find any show stoppers. I'm using FF1.5 and no javascript errors are reported. It's strange as i would have thought i'd see the same thing if you are. The only difference maybe is that i'm using FF1.5 and JBossPortal2.4.1 and you are using FF2.0 and JBossPortal2.4? - but from the error reported i wouldn't expect that to make any difference…

Can you test something for me? Can you View Source of the page and search for this string:
<input type="hidden" name="dashboard:act" />

as that is the hidden field (used for all actions on all pages!) that should be present near the bottom of the generated html.

Thanks,

Kevin

The only difference maybe is that i'm using FF1.5 and JBossPortal2.4.1 and you are using FF2.0 and JBossPortal2.4? - but from the error reported i wouldn't expect that to make any difference…

I use Jboss Portal 2.4.1.SP1 (part of JEMS Installer 1.2.0.GA)

Can you test something for me? Can you View Source of the page and search for this string:
<input type="hidden" name="dashboard:act" />

Sure,
No such an entry at all in page source code.

I see the following java error in consile though while page is rendered. May by it's related…

16:06:43,598 ERROR [JspStateManagerImpl] Exiting serializeView - Could not seria
lize state: org.alfresco.web.ui.common.component.UIListItem
java.io.NotSerializableException: org.alfresco.web.ui.common.component.UIListIte
m
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1081)

        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:302)
        at java.util.ArrayList.writeObject(ArrayList.java:569)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Thank you,
Andrey

Speaking of differences, I use HSQL as a database, not MySQL.
I just copied
- tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco from Tomcat bundle to Jboss's server\default\conf\alfresco and
- alf_data to bin\alf_data respectively.

But seems the system rather works, so I do not see it as an issue. (I successfully did the same trick with your standalone JBoss instructions)

I tried building the 574 revision with "ant build-jboss" and got the following compile errors:

….

Did anyone succeed in running this?
Which JDK are you using?

I'm using JDK 1.6 … Do I have to revert to 1.5?

I tried building the 574 revision with "ant build-jboss" and got the following compile errors:

….

Did anyone succeed in running this?
Which JDK are you using?
I'm using JDK 1.6 … Do I have to revert to 1.5?

That will very likely solve the build issue.

Thanks,

Kevin

Thanks! Build Successful with jdk1.5

Thanks! Build Successful with jdk1.5

CarnbY,
Is the system usable for you? Do you have the same issues as me (above in this thread)? Can you navigate through the Alfresco?

Thanks,
Andrey.

No, I ran into another problem…
When starting the jboss portal I get this error:

2007-03-06 14:08:27,828 WARN  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco 'dir.root' property is set to a relative path './alf_data'.  'dir.root' should be overridden to point to a specific folder.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: Indexes not found for 5 stores.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: System content not found in content store.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
   at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationChecker.java:313)

…
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

No, I ran into another problem…
When starting the jboss portal I get this error:

2007-03-06 14:08:27,828 WARN  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco 'dir.root' property is set to a relative path './alf_data'.  'dir.root' should be overridden to point to a specific folder.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: Indexes not found for 5 stores.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: System content not found in content store.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
2007-03-06 14:08:27,953 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
   at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationChecker.java:313)

…
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This doesn't look related - can you recreate your database and delete the alf_data directory and start the portal again as it looks like you have multiple alf_data indexes.

Thanks,

Kevin

kevinr: I did like you said and I'm still getting the same errors in the console, but the alfresco page is working…

CarnbY,
Is the system usable for you? Do you have the same issues as me (above in this thread)? Can you navigate through the Alfresco?

Thanks,
Andrey.

I've logged in as admin and browsed around a little and have not gotten any javascript errors… I use JBoss portal 2.4.1 bundled with AS.

I'm outta here for today… thanks for the help guys!

I've logged in as admin and browsed around a little and have not gotten any javascript errors… I use JBoss portal 2.4.1 bundled with AS.

That's it! "JBoss portal 2.4.1 bundled with AS". In this configuration Alfresco works for me. BTW, application server in this bundle is 4.0.4, not 4.0.5 as in JEMS installer.
(It is consistent with 'deas0815' - thread author - problems. He uses also 4.0.5 app server).

Kevin, please, please try JEMS installer - that is enterprise solution, so Alfresco is…

I use it because that's the way to enable EJB3 by installer. I need them for JBoss Wiki (!). I'm building collaboration portal, I need it. Make it 'just work' please.

Thank you,
Andrey.

BUG:
Invironment:
OS - Win XP SP2
JDK - jdk1.5.0_09
AS - 4.0.4.GA (a part of Portal 2.4.1 bundle)
Portal - 2.4.1 (bundled with app server above. jboss-portal-2.4.1-bundled.zip)
Alfresco - 2.0 revision 574
Browser - IE6, FF2 (reproduceable on both).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://localhost:8080/portal/portal/default/Alfresco
2. Login as admin. Success.
3. Maximize Alfresco portlet window
Effect: see login screen. Expected: just maximized window.

webworks2000

I ran into this same problem. Here's what happened for me:

I had both Java 1.5 and 1.6 installed on my computer…and although I set eclipse to use 1.5 as compiler, the JRE was set to the 1.6, causing an error since I think Normalizer.compose was taken out in 1.6

In any case, make sure you're using 1.5 JRE and JDK not 1.6 and it might help!

gressho

I have the JavaScript problems, too. My environment is

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
JDK 1.5.0_10
JBoss AS 4.0.5 (replaced MyFaces 1.1.4 by 1.1.5)
JBossPortal 2.4.1
Alfresco 2.0 revision 574
FF 2.0

The only thing that works is the Alfresco Tutorial (and the external
links).

Best wishes

Werner

I have the JavaScript problems, too…

That's what I'm talking about.
Moving back to app server 4.0.4 will probably solve the issue. But Alfresco team have definitely address that I think.

millerj

We are also having a very similar problem.
Environment:
JBoss AS - 4.0.5
JBoss Portal - 2.4.1
Alfresco revision - 574
OS Win XP SP2
browsers - IE and FF

After deploying the Alfresco.war on JBoss, the JBoss AS reports the following error whenever I open the Alfresco Portlet Page.

ERROR [JspStateManagerImpl] Exiting serializeView - Could not serialize state: org.alfresco.web.ui.common.component.UIListItem java.io.NotSerializableException: org.alfresco.web.ui.common.component.UIListItem
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1075)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:291)
        at java.util.ArrayList.writeObject(ArrayList.java:570)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor957.invoke(Unknown Source) …. ‍‍‍‍‍

The Alfresco portlet page loads however ALL internal navigation links within the portlet generate a javascipt error when selected. Navigation is 100% disabled by this error.

 Error: 'document.forms.dashboard.dashboard.act' is null or not an object‍

Has this issue been entered as a bug? If so I would like to know the bug number so I can keep an eye on the issue. For us, using JBoss AS 4.0.5 is necessary to run other components. We would like to use Alfresco but will not be able to if it can't be run on that version of JBoss AS.

We are also having a very similar problem.
Environment:
JBoss AS - 4.0.5
JBoss Portal - 2.4.1
Alfresco revision - 574
OS Win XP SP2
browsers - IE and FF

After deploying the Alfresco.war on JBoss, the JBoss AS reports the following error whenever I open the Alfresco Portlet Page.
…

The problem above, and also the problem here:


I have the JavaScript problems, too. My environment is

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
JDK 1.5.0_10
JBoss AS 4.0.5 (replaced MyFaces 1.1.4 by 1.1.5) 
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Is that the version of JBossAS you are using packages the MyFaces1.1.4 as the jsflibs inside the tomcat webserver module.

The version of Alfresco you are trying to use is expecting MyFaces1.1.1. This is why you currently need to use the JbossPortal2.4.1+JBoss bundle (which still uses MyFaces1.1.1) or wait for a future release of Alfresco.

It is hard for us to know which way to go with MyFaces library versions as for the various portals we work against, we need to make sure we are compatible with all of them if possible. Unfortuntely in the portal environment (i.e. shared web context) there is no isolation from the version of MyFaces bundled with JBossAS and the version of MyFaces we want to use in the Alfresco WAR bundle…

Thanks,

Kevin

mosi_123

The following are instructions that I used to get Alfresco 2.0 working with JBoss Portal 2.4.1 and MySQL Server 5.

Installation Instructions
1. Install JBoss 4.0.5
2. Set JBOSS_HOME environment variable to root directory
3. Set JAVA_HOME environment variable to JDK 5.0 or JDK 6.0
4. Install jboss-portal.sar (2.4.1) to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy
5. Copy portal-mysql-ds.xml to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy
    Ensure/Verify the following: <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbossportal?useServerPrepStmts=false&jdbcCompliantTruncation=false</connection-url>

6. Copy mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

7. Clear Cached folders if exists:
   JBOSS_HOME/bin/alf_data
   JBOSS_HOME/server/default/data/portal
   JBOSS_HOME/server/default/tmp
   JBOSS_HOME/server/default/work

8. DROP alfresco & jbossportal databases from MySQL if exists
9. Run <alfresco install dir>/extras/databases/mysql/db_setup.bat
10. Verify that the alfresco database was created.
11. Install myfaces (1.1.5) *.jar files to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs

12. SVN Alfresco 2.0 (HEAD revision) - run Ant - "build-jboss" section - make sure you compile against JDK 5.0.

13. Modify JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy\jboss-portal.sar\conf\hibernate\instance\domain.hbm.xml â€“ change everywhere it says length=â€5000000â€ to type=â€textâ€

14. Edit <drive letter>\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server <vernum>\my.ini Modify line to say sql-mode="NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION" â€“ remove any reference to â€œSTRICT_TRANSâ€¦â€

15. Add the following to JAVA_OPTS var in JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.bat     â€œ-server -XX:MaxPermSize=128mâ€

16. Add/Replace the following to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/log4j.xml
<root>
     <priority value="INFO" />
     <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
     <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
</root>