Building a Java EE app on Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Glassfish 3

Question

I'm having a bit of a problem building a Java Enterprise Edition web application on Mac OS X 10.6.2 using Ant 1.7.1, Glassfish v3 and Java EE 6.

The problem is that the build process does not find the Java EE libraries which fair enough as I don't think Apple supply them with the default Java installation but I know they exist in the Glassfish distribution.

Which jars are the correct ones to build against (I'm assuming javaee.jar is a general jar which references all the other needed jars) and what should I be putting in my ant build.xml file?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

I would encourage you to get and use NetBeans or GlassFish Tools Bundle For Eclipse to start working with Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3... (read my profile to find out why).

If you are determined to avoid using either of these IDEs, then I would recommend that you download the Java EE 6 SDK, to get started. The SDK includes a number of different samples that can be built and deployed using Ant. (Use -verbose to learn the 'secrets')

Answer 2

You need to have the javaee.jar in your ant classpath, but be aware: do not copy the javaee.jar to the webapp (WEB-INF/lib folder)!

Answer 3

I have tried to install the Java EE 6 SDK on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard but i got this error message:

Using the user defined JAVA_HOME : /usr Entering setup... Unable to find a $JAVA_HOME at "/usr", continuing with system-provided Java... SwixML
1.5 (#144) SEVERE:  Expression NOME_DO_PRODUTO is undefined on line 86, column 289 in /templates/components.ftl. SEVERE: Erro fatal Erro fatal Argumentos=[-p, Default-Product-ID=glassfish, -p, Pkg-Format=zip, -p, Logs-Location=/tmp, -p, Platform-Plugin-Path=/tmp/install.032310154340/install/lib/platforms,
-p, Provider-Path=/tmp/install.032310154340/install/lib/providers,
-p, Answer-Files=,file:///tmp/install.032310154340/install.properties,
-p, Log-Level=INFO, -p, Media-Location=file:///tmp/install.032310154340/install/metadata/,
-p, Installable-Unit-Path=file:///tmp/install.032310154340/Product/] : Inicializando Orchestrator Causado por: Erro ao iniciar o assistente Causado por: Erro ao renderizar SWIXML Quadro=content area Causado por: Erro ao processar modelo swimxl Causado por: Expression NOME_DO_PRODUTO is undefined on line 86, column 289 in /templates/components.ftl.

Does any one know a solution?

Thanks