Bug 1003104

Summary:	appclient hang when executing .jar file outside an .ear
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6	Reporter:	Aleksandar Kostadinov <akostadi>
Component:	Application Client	Assignee:	Stuart Douglas <sdouglas>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Russell Dickenson <rdickens>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.1.1	CC:	jmartisk, twells
Target Milestone:	ER3
Target Release:	EAP 6.2.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	An issue existed with the appclient code that prevented the direct execution of .jar files. Additional code has been added to the appclient to correct this issue, and jar files can now be executed directly.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:	RHEL6 RPM
Last Closed:	2013-12-15 16:55:26 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Description Aleksandar Kostadinov 2013-08-30 19:27:33 UTC

There is a problem for appclient in EAP 6.1.1 to execute a jar file that is *not* within an EAR archive. I have a simple hello world appclient that just prints a line to stdout [1].

When I start the app calling it through the ear I see a correct result:
> bin/appclient.sh appear-1.0.ear#app-1.0.jar
> ...
> 15:19:14,992 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (Thread-35) JBAS018559: Deployed "appear-1.0.ear" (runtime-name : "appear-1.0.ear")
> 15:19:14,996 INFO  [stdout] (Thread-43) Hello World Enterprise Application Client!
> ...

When I try to directly start .jar though the application client just hangs there doing nothing without any error messages or other clues what is going on:
> bin/appclient.sh app-1.0.jar
> ...
> 15:22:27,987 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (Thread-35) JBAS018559: Deployed "app-1.0.jar" (runtime-name : "app-1.0.jar")

Nothing happens, it just sits there forever doing nothing.


[1] https://svn.jboss.org/repos/qa/people/akostadi/appclientear

Comment 3 Aleksandar Kostadinov 2013-10-07 11:01:14 UTC

Tested with ER3.1 and automated test is in place for RPM distribution.