Trouble deploying .jar file?

[HKabaker]

I'm telling my trechnical folks that they should deploy the webhelp.jar file as is, but they think there's something wrong with it.

I give the app developer a .zip file.
He incorporates the zip with the app into a .war file, to be exploded into the appropriate directory on deploying an EAR file.

They say "nothing has changed" in their deployment. This is the first I've heard of it. They say it started between 6/10 and 6/21. They believe that unzipping the .jar file is and always was part of the process. Of course, the .jar file is exactly the same as it has been in RH 7.

Has anyone seen this?

Here are some of the complaints they forwarded to me:


[xxxxxxx(userid) help-E]$ unzip -l webhelp.jar
Archive: webhelp.jar

caution: zipfile comment truncated
warning [webhelp.jar]: zipfile claims to be last disk of a multi-part archive;
attempting to process anyway, assuming all parts have been concatenated
together in order. Expect "errors" and warnings...true multi-part support
doesn't exist yet (coming soon).
error [webhelp.jar]: missing 3554673576 bytes in zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [webhelp.jar]: attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

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Error: CommonarchiveFactoryImpl: Failed to create temp zip file strategy for [ help-E/webhelp.jar ] for the following case [ Create load strategy]
java.util.zip.ZipException: Error opening zip file /servers/was6/appserver/profiles/dmgr_cmgiaacs005_uat/wstemp/appdepl11b328c610f/webhelp.jar38431.tmp



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[xxxxxxxx(userID) help-E]$ unzip -l webhelp.jar
Archive: webhelp.jar
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
603 11-05-04 15:44 CommandBuffer.class
1062 11-05-04 15:44 WebHelp$JavaScriptAccess.class
13081 11-05-04 15:44 WebHelp.class
523 11-05-04 15:44 WhCommand.class
1716 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXML.class
888 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLConsumerChain.class
1162 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLDocument.class
2236 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLElement.class
597 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLException.class
2962 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLParser.class
2328 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/BsscXMLTokenizer.class
212 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLConsumer.class
293 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLDocumentBuilder.class
302 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLDocumentReader.class
448 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLElementBuilder.class
510 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLElementReader.class
500 11-05-04 15:44 BsscXML/IBsscXMLParser.class
1623 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BlockContainer.class
1887 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscFont.class
343 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscFontFixPatch.class
230 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscHelpCommandAdapter.class
1891 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscHelpRedirector.class
549 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscImageLabel$ToDo.class
4334 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscImageLabel.class
549 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscImagePanel$ToDo.class
3125 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscImagePanel.class
1779 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/BsscTextArea.class
565 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ButtonPushEvent.class
236 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ButtonPushEventListener.class
3079 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/CanvasButton.class
11767 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/DynListView.class
2092 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ErrEntry.class
1063 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/FakeItemBlock.class
6437 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/FtsListView.class
4350 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/FtsView.class
1770 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/FtsViewSkin.class
1370 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/GloListView.class
649 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/GlossaryView$1.class
4324 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/GlossaryView.class
205 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/GloViewSkin.class
189 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IActionSink.class
227 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IChunkedData.class
213 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IChunkedDataListener.class
303 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IChunkedInfo.class
2600 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ImageCache.class
2503 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IndexListView.class
4250 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IndexView.class
1106 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/IndexViewSkin.class
510 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/INumChunkedData.class
3806 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/Language.class
519 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ListView$ToDo.class
8653 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ListView.class
499 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/PaneSetting.class
2047 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/RealItemBlock.class
4200 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ResourceLib.class
4729 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TabButton.class
216 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TabManagerAdaper.class
1588 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TabPanel.class
5387 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TocBlock.class
10577 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TocListView.class
4156 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TocView.class
2861 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/TocViewSkin.class
2552 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/URLFileHandler.class
643 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/UsedItem.class
1023 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/UsedItems.class
3691 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/ViewSkin.class
1417 11-05-04 15:44 hhapplet/VirtualEntry.class
1127 11-05-04 15:44 treeview/ImageSet.class
198 11-05-04 15:44 treeview/ImageSetSource.class
1987 11-05-04 15:44 treeview/SiblingChildTree.class
25457 11-05-04 15:44 treeview/TreeViewImageSet.class
604 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Consumer.class
2342 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Fts.class
4365 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/FtsEntry.class
646 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/FtsKeyInt.class
1892 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/FtsTData.class
2670 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/FtsWData.class
2430 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Glossary.class
2517 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/GlossaryData.class
3652 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/GlossaryEntry.class
2427 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Idx.class
3492 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/IdxData.class
5617 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/IdxEntry.class
470 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/IEntry.class
165 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/ITocEntryContainer.class
2915 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Project.class
4683 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/SecondaryDialog.class
2437 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Toc.class
3339 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/TocData.class
8656 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/TocEntry.class
504 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/Topic.class
3626 11-05-04 15:44 XMLConsumer/WhResource.class
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[Linux Rules]

Hello Harvey -

Sounds like your build person is dumping your ZIP file - intact - into the app build WAR file. As you know, that doesn't work. Builder needs to unzip your file into their app build environment then compile the WAR

That or the builder is doing an incremental update - should do a full rewrite.

Or both...

Been there, had that happen (just confirmed with [delete:your] [correction: MY] build manager).

Regards,
GEWB

[HKabaker]

Gary--

Whose build manager did you confirm it with?

Harvey

[Linux Rules]

quote:

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Originally posted by: HKabaker
Gary--

Whose build manager did you confirm it with?

Harvey

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Hello Harvey -

Oh my, a senior moment...I confirmed the behavior and our same experience with MY build manager while I was getting ready to type a reply suggesting you ask YOUR build manager if this was the case.

Sorry for getting everyone confused!

BTW, was that the problem?

Regards,
Gary

[HKabaker]

I'll see if they own up to it.

[HKabaker]

never mind this.

[Captiv8r]

Hi Harvey

Just thinking out loud a bit here. I'm not sure how persuasive this will be, but you might just say that WebHelp has been around with RoboHelp since about 1998. And in the 10 years since it was introduced, Blue Sky/eHelp, Macromedia and Adobe haven't really seen any complaints or issues with this file being produced in the state it is. Had there been an issue, it surely would have been reported and corrected years ago.

Maybe that will help? I sure hope so.

Sincerely... Rick

[HKabaker]

Rick, thanks.

That would make too much sense, I think.

On rereading Gary's note, I understand now that they should unzip it into the build environment first, then build the .war file. I'll ask them about their sequence of steps.

The webhelp.jar file has changed significantly from previous versions, so I need to give them as much info as I can.

Harvey

[HKabaker]

Gary,

You say they should unzip my help file it into their build environment. Does that include unzipping webhelp.jar?

I just tried it. The RH 7 webhelp.jar file can't be unzipped. Earlier ones can. Sounds like a bug, which I will now submit.

Harvey

[Linux Rules]

Hello Harvey -

We just zip up the entire generated project as-is so the jar file stays compacted.

I'm going to try generating without the applet option...

...still there.

Regards,
Gary

[HKabaker]

Gary, thanks for confirming.

Have you tried to un-jar the output jar file?

Harvey

[Linux Rules]

quote:

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Originally posted by: HKabaker
Gary, thanks for confirming.

Have you tried to un-jar the output jar file?

Harvey

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Hello Harvey -

No, I have not.

Regards,
Gary

[HKabaker]

FYI, Adobe is working on this. Some details on a separate thread here.