[JBoss-user] Help with <datasource> in jaws.xml

[Dave D. <dd...@ac...>]

I've been struggling with this for the past 2 days and don't seem to be
making any progress.

I have no experience with JBoss, any other app server, or with EJBs. I've
been trying to get up to speed with JBoss 3.0, but haven't been able to find
any good docs. So I've been using the 'volunteer documentation' from the
JBoss site, and working through those examples. This has required that I
make a number of changes; both to the build files, and to the instructions.
But I feel this has been a good experience for me, and I have certainly felt
a sense of accomplishment when I got the example to work.

However, I am stuck on the jaws example, Chapter 4. As is, deployment of the
generated classes.jar fails with a complaint about the datasource specified
in jaws.xml. If I comment out the datasource and type-mapping entries it
deploys and works correctly. However in this case it is usiong the default
datasource. I would much rather understand how to specify a different
datasource (as in the example) and make that work. But so far I have gotten
no where.

Part of the error that is generated is included below. I sure would
appreciate any help or pointers to docs that would help to clear up my
confusion. The doc says "To add another datasource, you have to declare it
as a JMX MLet: see Chapter 3.", but Chap. 3 doesn't even mention JMX or
MLet. I found some intstructions regarding jboss.conf, but jboss.conf
doesn't seem to be relevent to 3.0.

Excerpt of JBoss output:

14:42:47,541 INFO  [EjbModule] Deploying ClassBean
14:42:47,661 INFO  [EjbModule] Remove JSR-77 EJB Module:
jboss.management.single
:J2EEApplication= ,J2EEServer=Single,j2eeType=EJBModule,name=class.jar
14:42:47,661 ERROR [EjbModule] Initialization failed
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error in jaws.xml : type-mapping
InstantDB not found
        at
org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jaws.metadata.JawsApplicationMetaData.importXml(JawsAp
plicationMetaData.java:197)


and if I change the type-mapping to 'InstantDB' I get:

14:46:58,622 INFO  [EjbModule] Deploying ClassBean
14:46:58,722 INFO  [EjbModule] Remove JSR-77 EJB Module:
jboss.management.single
:J2EEApplication= ,J2EEServer=Single,j2eeType=EJBModule,name=class.jar
14:46:58,722 ERROR [EjbModule] Initialization failed
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: InstantDB not bound
        at
org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jaws.metadata.JawsApplicationMetaData.create(JawsAppli
cationMetaData.java:137)


Hope someone can give me some clue. Thanks.
Dave Derry