Not able to run a Vaadin application on remote server - java

I am building a Vaadin application with Java. Here is the folder structure.
- com
-- my
--- WebTool
---- ToolUI.java
---- View_1.java
---- View_2.java
The entry point to the application is ToolUI.java and has the method init() that takes VaadinRequest as a parameter. It is this file where I add the views Views_1 and View_2 as views of the application and add navigations among them. Everything runs great when I run the application via the Eclipse IDE.
Now I have a requirement that I have to deploy this application on a remote server. So I created a war of the project and deployed on the server by the name
MyWebTool.war.
Now when I try running the war with the command
java -jar MyWebTool.war
it gives me the error: Can't execute war no main manifest attribute, in MyWebTool.war
I am not sure what to add the main class as since the init method gets invoked and sets the app running. So I put a blank main function inside the MyWebToolUI.java and added this dependency in the pom.xml file.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.my.WebTool.ToolUI</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
<!-- Exclude an unnecessary file generated by the GWT compiler. -->
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/classes/VAADIN/widgetsets/WEB-INF/**</packagingExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
But now when trying to run the application it says Could not find or load main class com.my.WebTool.ToolUI
Can please somebody shed light on this? I don't know if I am missing something simple here but at this point, I am stuck. Thanks a lot.

For running war packaged applications, you will need a servlet container.
The servlet container provides all the basic infrastructure needed to run java based web applications.
One of the most common ways to do this, is to deploy the war file to a tomcat installation.

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when I change the source into /..ear/target/../jar it works
Try setting the <bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
This will place the external jar/ejb not in lib, but in the root.
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<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
...........
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<modules>
<jarModule>
<groupId>groupId</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
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</jarModule>
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</configuration>
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To make build-time variables (e.g. artifact name) available to your application, you can put custom entries in the manifest file using maven-war-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
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<archive>
<manifestEntries>
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</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
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try {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(request.getServletContext()
.getResourceAsStream("/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF"));
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<build>
<finalName>my-service</finalName>
</build>
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<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<configuration>
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we have an "old" JavaEE Application, which we want to port from the old Sun Application Server 9.1 to the current Glassfish 3.1. We updated the deployment descriptor xml files (renamed them, updated DocType, validated against DTD, nothing else). But when we try to the deploy into the GF3.1 we get this error:
JDO83008: CMP Compilation failed:
C:\workspace\glassfish31eclipsedefaultdomain\generated\ejb\archivetool-app-1.9.5\archivetool-ejb-1.9.5_jar\de\ems\archivetool\ejb\metadata\cd\eb\CdBean_821611534_ConcreteImpl.java:10:
cannot access de.ems.archivetool.ejb.framework.AbstractCMPBean
class file for de.ems.archivetool.ejb.framework.AbstractCMPBean not found
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(pom.xml and the resulting application.xml)
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Ok, after hours of googeling, I finally found the exact answer to this problem here.
The important part is:
The Java EE 6 specification imposes strict rules about which JAR files
are visible from an enterprise archive (EAR) file. Refer to section
EE.8.3.3; specifically, application client modules should not have
access to any EJB JAR file unless the application client JAR file's
manifest Class-Path refers to the EJB JAR file(s) explicitly.
This is a change from GlassFish Server v2, in which application
clients automatically had access to all EJB JAR files in the EAR file
and all JAR files at the top level of the EAR file. To comply with the
stricter specification language, GlassFish Server 3.0.1 cannot
automatically provide application clients with access to these JAR
files.
What you have to do is, let maven put the jar (and other dependencies) into a library folder in the ear container. You do this by adding this to your ear pom.xml:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
//here starts the important part
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
</manifest>
</archive>
//end of important part
<modules>
<jarModule>
<groupId>gID</groupId>
<artifactId>aID</artifactId>
</jarModule>
//etc some more ebjs, war, ...
</modules>
This will put the jar module into a folder lib, and all depending ejbs will get the Class-Path entry in their MANIFEST.MF.
Hope that helps some of you with the same problem.

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