<ejbjar> et <borland> FAQ

You can find here an article about security in borland enterprise server written by Krishnan Subramanian that i have formated

• Securing an EJB Application in BES 5.2 [HTML]
• Securing an EJB Application in BES 5.2 [PDF]

• JAVA_HOME env variable on the JDK
• BES_HOME env variable on the installation of Borland Enterprise Server.
• %JAVA_HOME%\bin put in the PATH env variable
• %BES%\bin put in the PATH env variable

• java2iiop must display all the options availables. Verify also the binary file is taken from the %BES%/bin folder. Be carefull, a very famous Database (oracle) still installs a very old version of visibroker (3.2), a weird version of java2iiop and put the Oracle/bin folder in path !
• vbj must display all the options availables
• vbjc, the wrapper around the java compiler, must display all the options availables.

It is very easy to solve this:

The best is to put the DTDs on a local web site (on a LAN) and to add dtd node that redirect the DTD.
With a sample it is better: the two <dtd>s tells where to find official DTD for ejbjar.xml and the vendor dtd.

<ejbjar srcdir="${build.dir}"  basejarname="${ant.project.name}"       descriptordir="${rsc.dir}/${ant.project.name}/J2EE">
     <borland destdir="lib" verify="off" generateclient="on" debug="on" version="5">
       <classpath refid="classpath" />
     </borland>
     <dtd publicid="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN"
         location= "http://mylocalserver/dtds/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd" />

     <dtd       publicid="-//Borland Software Corporation//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN"
      location= "http://mylocalserver/dtds/ejb-jar_2_0-borland.dtd" />

     <include name="ejb-jar.xml"/>
     <support dir="${build.dir}">
       <include name="com\mycompangny\a\b\c\MyClass.class"/>
     </support>
</ejbjar>

vbj com.borland.ejb.pm.EntityBeanCodeGen

Arguments:
-Directory with compiled bean code
-Abstract bean class name
-Name(s) of home interface(s)

Output:
-Concrete bean class source code (e.g. RoomBean_PM)

Typically this command is launched by JBuilder(X). If you need them add a <java> task in your build.xml

New ! 5 March 2004 David Leroy, a cool guy, has written two new classes to handle the _PM generation. He has created two new classes to accommodate my needs: EjbCMPJar.java, which extends EjbJar and BorlandCMPDeploymentTool, which extends your BorlandDeploymentTool. The new task is called "ejbcmpjar" and the new subtask is called "borlandcmp". Here is a snippet of the buildfile:

<taskdef name="ejbcmpjar"
 classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ejb.EjbCMPJar" />

<target name="generate Borland" depends = "compile Borland, package"
 description="Generate EJBs for Borland Enterprise Server">

 <mkdir dir="${dir.ejbs}" />
 <mkdir dir="${dir.ejbs}/cmp" />
 <ejbcmpjar descriptordir="${dir.edd}"
 srcdir="${dir.classes}"
 naming="directory"
 dependency="none"
 manifest="${manifest}">
 <classpath>
 <path refid="classpath.deploy" />
 </classpath>
 <include name="**/ejb-jar.xml" />

 ( ... omitted <dtd> elemements ...)

 <borlandcmp destdir="${dir.ejbs}"
 cmpdir="${dir.ejbs}/cmp"
 version="5"
 suffix=".jar"
 verify="false"
 </borlandcmp>

 </ejbcmpjar>

</target>