How to configure JSF 2.0 application's project stage via JNDI in Tomcat - debugging

been struggling to find a way to configure Tomcat 7.0.11 so that my web application would use project stage setting from Tomcat's config. So far - no luck. The idea is to set this property in Tomcat server/host/application wide but not to set it in web.xml. Any ideas? I am using MyFaces JSF 2 implementation 2.0.5.

The specification says that the JSF implementation looks up the Project Stage using JNDI under java:comp/env/jsf/ProjectStage. If not found it uses the context parameter javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE from your web.xml. This means that if defined/found on your Tomcat using JNDI, the value of preferred over the web.xml setting.
There are two things you can do:
Option 1: Overwrite the context parameter: This means that context parameter is set/overwritten using the Tomcat server.xml or context.xml. You need to put this in your <Context>-tag:
<Parameter name="javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE" value="Production" override="false" />
Careful: override="false" here means that this parameter can NOT be overriden by the web.xml (not the other way around)!
Option 2: Configure a resource that can be found using JNDI: By using this that JSF implementation can resolve the project stage using the JNDI lookup.
<Environment name="jsf/ProjectStage" value="Production" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
You can also move this to the <GlobalResources>-tag in your server.xml. In this case you would need to reference this in your <Context>-tag by using <ResourceLink>-tag.

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Binding datasource to application when using springBootApplication in Liberty?

When deploying "regular" web apps to Liberty, I was used to binding the global datasource configured in Liberty's server.xml to the individual application by using a child element within the element, like this:
<application context-root="helloApp" location="..." name="helloApp" type="war">
<application-bnd>
<data-source id="db2appDs" name="jdbc/datasource" binding-name="jdbc/theDB"/>
</application-bnd>
...
</application>
<dataSource id="db2ds" jndiName="jdbc/theDB" type="javax.sql.DataSource">
...
</dataSource>
When configuring my first Spring Boot application to deploy to Liberty, I am trying to use the new <springBootApplication> element for it - but I don't seem to be able to add a binding for the datasource I want to use the same way, as this element doesn't seem to support such a child. (It seems to want only <classloader> as a child).
I've seen people suggest I use an #Resource annotation that includes both application-local JDNI name and global JNDI name for the datasorce - but that defeats the purpose, since I don't want to know what the global name is until deploy time.
Is there another way to do this, like we used to before? Or are applications deployed through <springBootApplication> expected to know the global JNDI name of the datasource(s) they want?
Application-defined datasources are not supported for <springBootApplication/>’s. While your application may certainly access a Liberty datasource using its global JNDI name, you should configure the spring.datasource.jndi-name property within your Spring Boot application as described in section 29.1.3 of the Spring Boot features reference. For your example try spring.datasource.jndi-name=jdbc/theDB.

Create Externalized Configuration in spring-boot along with profiles

I have a spring-boot application with annotations instead of context.xml.
In my src/main/resources folder I have: application-dev.properties and application-test.properties.
which work perfectly for different profiles (while running with VM option like -Dspring.profiles.active=dev)
Now I need to externalize this properties with file in /opt/software/Tomcat8/conf/app.properties
Some props override each other, some don't.
in Tomcat config context.xml I say:
<Environment name="app.properties"
value="file:///opt/software/Tomcat8/conf/app.properties"
type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
How to use it via JNDI in my application configuring app with no XML but annotations in Spring-bot application class?
I need it to have priority to inner jar properties according to
Link to Spring-boot.doc
One solution I found was to have the vm argument -Dloader.path with the external path when executing the application. Please keep in mind if you're using a fat jar you may need to create the package in Zip model, otherwise it will not work.

How can I display a JBoss property in JSTL (without using Java)?

I’m using JBoss 7.1.3 and Spring 3.2.11.RELEASE. I have this property defined in my $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml file
<system-properties>
<property name=“myProperty” value=“myValue”/>
…
In my JSP, through JSTL, is it possible to access this value without any additional code in a Java servlet? If I need to put something in a Spring XML application context file to accommodate this, that’s fine with me.
Assuming those are real system properties, just add a ServletContextListener to your application, and in its contextInitialized() method, store the system properties in the servlet context:
servletContext.setAttribute("systemProperties", System.getProperties());
Then, in any JSP:
<c:out value="${systemProperties.myProperty}"/>

Simple axis2.xml for Axis2 embedded in webapp

I am developing a webapp with an embedded webservice with Axis2 using Maven.
The service implementation is a POJO with RPC-style interaction, the target appserver is Tomcat running the Axis2 servlet.
The "Hello world" works but now I need to configure some global axis2 settings in the axis2.xml file (placed under WEB-INF/conf).
Please provide or point to a simple configuration for axis2.xml for this common environment.
The default taken from the binary distribution has too many features activated (hotdeploy?) and also causes this problem:
<soapenv:Reason>
<soapenv:Text xml:lang="en-US">
The ServiceClass object does not implement the required method
in the following form: OMElement ping(OMElement e)
</soapenv:Text>
</soapenv:Reason>
As a reference: http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/servlet-transport.html says to configure the servlet transport in this way, but it does not solve the issue.
<transportReceiver name="http" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServletListener"/>
Apparently the problem is that the default axis2.xml sets raw xml messageReceivers, instead of the RPC ones.
Try to add this to the services.xml for the developed service, should fix the problem.
<messageReceivers>
<messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-only"
class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCInOnlyMessageReceiver" />
<messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out"
class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver" />
</messageReceivers>
"Solution that worked for me was adding the operation tag in the service.xml against the Java Service method name:
<operation name="sayHello" >
<messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out" class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver" />
</operation>
<parameter name="ServiceClass" locked="false">com.learning.webservices.pojo.HelloService</parameter>

Spring using JNDI with Tomcat... why do I need a META-INF/context.xml in my project

I am trying to get Spring working with tomcat JNDI resource to access my database. My project works if a META-INF/context.xml in my project with the resource information but once I remove it it stops.. why.
If you deploy a Web application in Tomcat, in the deployment process, Tomcat will copy the META-INF/context.xml file in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/ so the context will be available for your application. Take in mind, that if you remove context.xml from you application because you dont want it, you also have to delete it manually from $CATALINA_HOME/conf/
If you have edited the server.xml for including your dababase resource and is not working when you remove context.xml it could be because you made some mistake defining your resourde in server.xml
UPDATED:
When resource is in server.xml, in context you should make a reference to global resource in server.xml. For example:
<Context crossContext="true" reloadable="true" >
<ResourceLink name="jdbc/myApp" type="javax.sql.DataSource" global="jdbc/myApp" />
</Context>
This is unrelated to Spring.
To use JNDI you are expected to define the various resources either as global configuration or as application specifici configuration. For example JNDI DataSource Configuration
Why do you expect it to work in any other case? How would Tomcat know which resources to provide if you don't define them?
UPDATE:
You define a resouce in your server.xml but you have to associate the resource with your web application. That is why you also need to modify context.xml

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