Make “Duke’s Bank” J2EE demo app work on JBoss 4.2.0.GA

I was trying to learn a bit about JBoss AS by following their Getting Started doc/tutorial.

When I got up to Chapter 4, which involves building and deploying the “Duke’s Bank” application from Sun’s J2EE tutorial to JBoss, I ran into errors when trying to compile.

~/j2eetutorial14/examples/bank$ ant -f jboss-build.xml compile | head
Buildfile: jboss-build.xml

prepare:

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 61 source files to
/Users/marca/j2eetutorial14/examples/bank/build
    [javac] /Users/marca/j2eetutorial14/examples
/bank/src/com/sun/ebank/web/template/DefinitionTag.java:31:
package javax.servlet.jsp does not exist
    [javac] import javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException;

To fix this, I edited jboss-build.xml as follows:

--- jboss-build.xml.2007-06-21-102200   2007-06-21 10:18:55.000000000 -0700
+++ jboss-build.xml     2007-06-21 10:22:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <path id="build.classpath">
         <path refid="client.classpath"/>
        <fileset dir="${jboss.server}/lib/">
-            <include name="javax.servlet*.jar"/>
+            <include name="*.jar"/>
         </fileset>
     </path>

Later on in the tutorial, you are directed to run an Ant task to display some newly inserted rows in the hsql database.

~/j2eetutorial14/examples/bank$ ant -f jboss-build.xml db-list
Buildfile: jboss-build.xml

db-list:
     [java] ScriptTool.init error: sql/hsql-list.sql (No such file or directory)
     [java] java.io.FileNotFoundException: sql/hsql-list.sql
(No such file or directory)

For some reason, I didn’t have the hsql-list.sql file. So I created one with SELECT * FROM account; as its contents.

Aside from these hiccups, the the tutorial worked fine.