Nov 14, 2009

Railo GlassFish and Flex ( flash ) remoting

So dropping a Railo war on GlassFish and being up an running is easy but flashremoting dosn't work right away. As a flex developer this is a show stopper for me but lucky that's also easily solved.

Basically all that's needed is to add the MessageBrokerServlet and /flex2gateway mappings to the web.xml

You'll find the web.xml in the directory you deployed the application to in my case:

C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\domains\domain1\applications\railo\WEB-INF

Pasting the xml into my blog looked a little nasty so I used pastebin. You can see the WEB.xml after I added the additions here. You should have no issues copying all of this and pasting it into your web.xml over writing everything.

There is no need to re-deply Railo simple restart the application to pickup the changes.

To confirm the changes try ( in my case ) http://railolocal/flex2gateway if its a plain white page its good if it 404's then you might have made a typo.

Happy Flex (flash) remoting.



Railo Apache and Glassfish
ColdFusion 9 Apache and Glassfish
Posted by Paul Kukiel at 8:32 PM
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7 comments:

  1. Hey Paul, when you get some time, can you please test HTTPService and WebService for me and see if they work correctly for you? I had little success with these a few months ago, so it was my showstopper. If its working properly under Glassfish....
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  2. I made a simple ws ie:

    < cfcomponent name="test">
    < cffunction name="showString" access="remote" returnType="string">
    < cfreturn "Hello time is: #now()#">
    < / cffunction>
    < / cfcomponent>

    http://railolocal/test.cfc?wsdl&method=showString

    And it worked on both Railo and CF9 on GF the same as ColdFusion with jrun. Although the request appears to come from http://127.0.0.1:8080/railo I think what needs to happen is that GlassFish needs to be aware of the virtual domain aswell.

    Also note that I used GlassFish v3 which is still in preview.
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  3. Thanks Paul, and you called those via Flex WebService and HTTPService? The problem I've experienced is cross domain issues. Sounds to me like you will have the same issue
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  4. Yes from flex I have yet to work out the issue and I think it's something to do with the crossdomain issue.

    Once I dropped a allow all crossdomain.xml file it did get further but still got stuck at this: http://yfrog.com/6lcapturehej

    Flexremoting worked fine though and hitting the cfc directly looks OK.
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  5. I do think this is just a configuration issue that were yet to uncover though. I doubt there is no way to fix this.
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  6. Ya, remoting worked great for me too, no issues there. Loved the speed. But the http/webservice issues I couldnt resolve.
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  7. Good Stuff Pauly
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