Python Script to Deploy the Application in Weblogic

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Deployment, Python, weblogic

Using jdeveloper to host the application is painful. It abstracts lot of things. when we try to build and deploy our application by our own code, we will come to  know lot of stuffs happening behind the scenes.

Start the web logic server (.sh file)

WEBLOGIC_DOMAIN_HOME/bin/startWebLogic.sh

we need to set the web logic environment, it sets few variables like WL_HOME, JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH, PATH, etc.

. $WEBLOGIC_HOME/bin/setWLSEnv.sh
java weblogic.WLST ./weblogicdeploy.py

The following is the python code to deploy our application in web logic server.

import re
warPath = 'WebService/target/build/dist/webservice.ear'
appName = 'webservice'
weblogicUrl = 't3://127.0.0.1:7101'  //change the port number depending on our weblogic server configuration
userName = 'weblogic'
password = 'weblogic1'
connect(userName, password, weblogicUrl)
appList = re.findall(appName, ls('/AppDeployments'))
if len(appList) >= 1:
print 'undeploying application'
undeploy(appName)
deploy(appName, path = warPath, retireTimeout = -1, upload = 'True')
exit()

you can use a war if it contain simple java classes and libs, ear contains same with wars inside (can have multiple applications inside it).

Difference between ear, war, jar:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1594667/war-vs-ear-file
Ear Structure:
http://middlewaremagic.com/weblogic/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/EAR_Application_Diagram.jpg

My git repository https://github.com/dineshkumar-cse/Team-Amazing which contains the scrips and application.

 

 

 

NoSuchMethodException while deploying application in jdeveloper

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ClassLoader, Deployment, Jdeveloper, NoSuchMethodException

In Jdeveloper, I’ve created an application for Hibernate to provide DB Service using annotation to map class with DB, and I created jar of that and used in other project WebService. When i run the Hibernate Project Separately it works fine.

while deployment the web service application it reports NoSuchMethod Exception.

Error 500--Internal Server
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Table.indexes()[Ljavax/persistence/Index;
         at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder.processComplementaryTableDefinitions(EntityBinder.java:936)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindClass(AnnotationBinder.java:824)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration$MetadataSourceQueue.processAnnotatedClassesQueue(Configuration.java:3788)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration$MetadataSourceQueue.processMetadata(Configuration.java:3742)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1410)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1844)
         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1928)

After some research, its known that

The libraries used by the application after deployment is different than the library that is attached to the application in case of deployed application. The ClassLoader loads the class from different location.

The following code tells from which jar the class gets loaded.

Table.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation()

Using this its been found that while running as an application it uses the right library (hibernate) from right location /WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar.

In deployed web service it uses older version of library which doesn’t have this method support. (its introduced in later versions) and its location was web logic /User_Home/Oracle/Middleware/modules/javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_1-0-2.jar (or the location of the weblogic libraries)

To solve this we can tell the weblogic to prefer the library from web-inf (our project libraries), if you don’t have one create it under WEB-INF directory.
by Adding the following in weblogic-application.xml (Application Resources)

<prefer-application-packages>
 <package-name>javax.persistence.*</package-name>
<prefer-application-packages>

To understand reason behind this issue check this resource http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/wls/docs103/programming/classloading.html