Java EE6 Totorial

I will make this quick, and summarize challenges faced while following JavaEE6 tutorial available on Oracle website. I was following all the steps mentioned in the tutorial, trying to use NetBeans with Glassfish as per the available instructions.

1) Update tool installed with NetBeans didn't work for me. I was trying to download the tutorial through updatetool, but consistently getting below exception.

I gave up after some trial and error, and thought of downloading the tutorial from SVN repositories. Thanks to the contributors of Stackoverflow.com, this URL contains all the tutorials. I switched to my old friend Eclipse and downloaded all the tutorials (you may need to set the proxy for subclipse to download the tutorials, configuration file is available at : C:\Users\<Windows user Id>\AppData\Roaming\Subversion in Windows7.

After downloading the tutorial, running 'ant' from command line for 'hello1' project failed with below error:

C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\bp-project\command-line-ant-tasks.xml:112: c:\glassfish3\lib does not exist.

My glassfish installation was at 'C:\glassfishv3' and I'm lil surprised because this was default folder chosen by Glassfish installation. Anyways to get rid of this error I had to modify two files:

1) javaee-tutorial\examples\bp-project\app-server.properties (Modify javaee.home=c:\\glassfishv3) and
2) javaee-tutorial\examples\bp-project\app-server-ant.xml (change value of javaee.classpath.prefix property to ${javaee.home}/lib)

Original content
    <condition property="javaee.classpath.prefix" value="${javaee.home}/lib">
        <isfalse value="${is.glassfish.v3}"/>
    </condition>

Modified content
    <condition property="javaee.classpath.prefix" value="${javaee.home}/glassfish/lib">
        <isfalse value="${is.glassfish.v3}"/>
    </condition>

After making these changes ... it seems build is working:

C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1>ant

Buildfile: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build.xml

-pre-init:

init:

default-ear:

-pre-compile:

bpp-actual-compilation:

     [echo] Compiling hello1

     [echo] javaee.classpath.prefix is: c:\glassfishv3/glassfish/modules

     [echo] is.glassfish.v3 is: true

    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\web\WEB-INF\classes

-post-compile:

compile:

package:

    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war

bp-copy-classes:

    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war\WEB-INF\classes

     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war\WEB-INF\classes

     [copy] Copying 5 files to C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\web

     [copy] Copying 5 files to C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war

bpp-package-persistence-unit-war:

    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF

     [copy] Warning: Could not find file C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\src\conf\persistence.xml to copy.

     [copy] Warning: Could not find file C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\src\conf\persistence.xml to copy.

bpp-package-persistence-unit-ejb-jar:

package-persistence-unit:

copy-resource-file:

      [jar] Building jar: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\hello1.war

   [delete] Deleting directory C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\build\war

bpp-copy-dist:

    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\dist

     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\docs\javaee-tutorial\examples\web\hello1\dist

default-not-ear:

default:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

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