Integrating JDBC Type 4 Driver With JBoss Applications

</fileset>

Add the following XML text immediately after the above text:

</fileset>

4. Download the struts distribution and copy the struts.jar, struts-logic.tld, and the supporting

jakarta-commons jars (all those prefixed with “commons-“) to bank/jar.

5. In the j2eetutorial

directory you will find the “build.properties” file. Edit this to set the

jboss.home property to the full path to your JBoss installation. The build process makes use of

the jar files and utilities that come with the JBoss Application Server, so it needs to know where

to find them. For example, if you have unpacked JBoss Application Server to the C: drive on a

Microsoft

Windows

system–based machine, you would set it as follows:

# Set the path to the JBoss directory containing

# the JBoss application server

# (This is the one containing directories like "bin",

# "client" etc.)

jboss.home=C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA

Compiling the Java source

At the command line, change to the j2eetutorial/bank directory. All the build commands will be run

from here. Compilation should be fairly straightforward—just type the following command:

ant -f jboss-build.xml compile

This runs the “compile” Ant target in the build script. If there aren’t any errors, you should find a

newly created build directory with the class files in it.

Packaging the EJB

The application has three EJB jar, bank-ejb.jar, which contains the code and descriptors (ejb-jar.xml

and jboss.xml) for the entity beans and associated “controller” session beans, which the clients

interact with (it is considered “bad” programming to have clients communicate directly to entity

beans). Execute the following command:

ant -f jboss-build.xml package-ejb

This should create the controller session bean (in the jar directory).

Packaging the Web Archive (WAR) file

Next is the Web application, which provides the front end to allow users to interact with the business

components (the EJB). The Web source (JavaServer Pages, or JSP; images; and so on) is contained in

the src/web directory and is added unchanged to the archive.

The command to build the Web client WAR file is:

ant -f jboss-build.xml package-web

The Ant WAR task also adds a WEB-INF directory, which contains the files that are not meant to be

directly accessed by a Web browser but are still part of the Web application. These include the

deployment descriptors (web.xml and jboss-web.xml), class files (For example, servlets and EJB