Deploy a Service Interface

Walks you through the steps required to associate an enterprise server instance with your project, build the project, set deployment properties, deploy the service interface, and verify the deployment results.
Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

To successfully deploy a Java service interface to an enterprise server instance, you need to first set some options in Visual COBOL.

Build the ProgramEJB Project

You need to build the project to generate all required deployment files.

  • On the Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB project; then click Build.

Set Deployment Properties

To ensure that the deployment process runs smoothly, you must set some options that tell Visual COBOL what application server to use and where to find certain files.

  1. From the Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB project; then click Properties.
  2. Ensure that the Interface type property is set to Java Interface (default).
  3. Click the Application files to deploy field, and then click its corresponding browse button Browse button to add the following files:
    File Project Folder
    bookfile.dat ProgramEJB
    bookfile.idx ProgramEJB
    book.dll ProgramEJB > bin > x86 > Debug
    These files are copied to the enterprise server instance when you deploy. The .dat and .idx files are the data and index parts of the indexed file accessed by the service. The .dll is the executable file you need to debug the service.
  4. Set the Application server to JBoss 7.1.1 (Java6).
  5. Click Browse that corresponds to the Classpath field, and type following EJB connector class file paths, they are located in the following subfolders:
    • jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\modules\javax\resource\api\main\jboss-connector-api_1.6_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar
    • jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\modules\javax\ejb\api\main\jboss-ejb-api_3.1_spec-1.0.1.Final.jar
    • jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\modules\javax\servlet\api\main\jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar

    In addition, add the javac.exe from your Java installation bin folder.

  6. Accept the default values for all other fields.

Associate the ESDEMO Enterprise Server Instance

You need to associate the ESDEMO enterprise server instance with your ProgramEJB project:

  1. From Server Explorer, expand localhost under Micro Focus Servers to see a list of available enterprise server instances.
  2. Right-click ESDEMO; then click Associate with Project > ProgramEJB.

Stop Enterprise Server Instances

To ensure that your enterprise server instance does not encounter any port conflicts with other enterprise server instances that use the same listener port, stop all started enterprise server instances as follows:

  1. From the Server Explorer, expand localhost under Micro Focus Servers to see a list of enterprise server instances.
  2. Right-click each started enterprise server instance, and stop it by selecting Stop from the context menu. Started enterprise server instances show with a green icon Started enterprise server instance.

Start the ESDEMO Enterprise Server Instance

Before deploying your service interface, you must start the ESDEMO instance where the ProgramEJB service will run.

  1. From the Server Explorer, expand localhost under Micro Focus Servers to see a list of available enterprise server instances.
  2. To start the ESDEMO enterprise server instance, right-click it; then click Start.
    Note: If this is the first time you have started the server you see a sign-on dialog box. If Server is secured is checked, uncheck it; then click OK. Unchecking Server is secured prevents this dialog box from showing when you subsequently start the region. If Server is secured is not checked, simply click OK to clear the dialog box.

The Enterprise Server Console Daemon is then invoked, starting the enterprise server instance.

Build the ProgramEJB project

You need to generate a .dll executable file from your project to deploy with your service interface. This is necessary so that you can debug the service after generating a client.

  • From Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB project; then click Build on the context menu.

Deploy the ProgramEJB service interface

  • From the Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB service interface; then click Deploy.

The Output window shows the progression of the deployment process. If deployment was successful, you should see a message indicating success.

If deployment ever fails, you should find a message in the output window indicating why it failed. Also, the failure message contains the path to the deployment log file. You can type the address into a browser and view the log file from there.

View deployment results

Now that your service interface has been deployed as a service running on the ESDEMO enterprise server, you can look at the details of the deployed service Enterprise Server Administration page.

  1. If you have closed Enterprise Server Administration, start it again from the from the Server Explorer.

    In the row showing information for the ESDEMO enterprise server, you should see that the Objects column shows the number of services that this enterprise server runs. In this case, the number of running services should be at least 9. These are the five that come standard with the ESDEMO enterprise server, plus the one service you added containing four operations. You might see more if you have deployed other services to the ESDEMO enterprise server.

  2. Click the Details button for the ESDEMO Services.

    In the row showing your new service, ProgramEJB, you see that the Current Status column shows all four operations as Available. This means that the service is ready to be access by a client.

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