I`m working in a EAR project with Maven which has 2 modules. Images speaks louder than words, so let me show you the structure:
Parent pom project and modules
sigea-model
contains model, repository and service layers (The "M" in MVC). sigea-web
contains web pages and controller beans (VC) and sigea-ear
is just a wrapper to package the other 2 modules in a EAR
package.
Configuration files in modules
As you can see, sigea-ear
has an empty META-INF
folder. Both beans.xml
files in sigea-model
and sigea-web
are just empty marker files because AFAIK, CDI by default search in all annotated classes (but this is not the problem right now). persistence.xml
is a simple file which uses JTA transactions with a connection pool (which is working because I ping from the Glassfish's admin console and is successful).
Finally, when I package the application I get the following:
As you can see, there's no persistence.xml
. All this came out because I deployed the application successfully but in the first click I got the Exception
javax.ejb.TransactionRolledbackLocalException: Exception thrown from bean
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to retrieve EntityManagerFactory for unitName null
Here are my pom
files:
pom.xml[sigea-app] (parent project)
<project ...>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>ar.edu.unt.sigea</groupId>
<artifactId>sigea-app</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<modules>
<module>sigea-model</module>
<module>sigea-web</module>
<module>sigea-ear</module>
</modules>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
...
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencyManagement>
<!-- I suppress some lines for brevity -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-model</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-model</artifactId>
<type>ejb</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-model</artifactId>
<type>test-jar</type>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
...
</dependencies>
</project>
pom.xml[sigea-ear]
<project ...>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>ar.edu.unt.sigea</groupId>
<artifactId>sigea-app</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>sigea-ear</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-model</artifactId>
<type>ejb</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib/</defaultLibBundleDir>
<skinnyWars>true</skinnyWars>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<contextRoot>/sigea</contextRoot>
</webModule>
<ejbModule>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>sigea-model</artifactId>
</ejbModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
pom.xml[sigea-web]
<project ...>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<artifactId>sigea-app</artifactId>
<groupId>ar.edu.unt.sigea</groupId>
<version>1.0</version>
</parent>
<groupId>ar.edu.unt.sigea</groupId>
<artifactId>sigea-web</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>sigea-web</name>
<dependencies>
<!-- Some dependencies including sigea-model -->
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/*.jar</packagingExcludes>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
pom.xml[sigea-model]
is not important as it just defines some dependencies for test and is configured to generate a package with the test classes, which are used in sigea-web
for test purposes also.
Finally the question: What's failing in my configuration that doesn't package the persistence.xml
file? If that's not the problem for the IllegalStateException
with the message shown above: What are posible causes for that exception?
Thanks in advance for your answers.