Setting Up Liferay Portal 6.1 EE on JBoss 5.1 EAP

This guide will assist you in the startup of JBoss EAP 5.1 with Liferay 6.1 EE GA1.

Resolution

1. Download JBoss EAP 
    
2. Download the liferay-dependencies.zip
    
3. Navigate to [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/lib]:
   • Add the Liferay dependencies (hsql.jar, portlet.jar, portal-service.jar)
   • Add mysql.jar
4. Delete the following in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../common/lib]:
   • hibernate-validator.jar
   • hsqldb.jar
   • hsqldb-plugin.jar 
5. Navigate to [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/conf]:
   • Edit login-config.xml
   • Comment out the blocks with the name "HsqlDBRealm" and "JmsXARealm"
6. Delete the following in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/deploy]:
   • /messaging
   • ejb2-container-jboss-beans.xml
   • ejb2-timer-service.xml
   • ejb3-connections-jboss-beans.xml
   • ejb3-container-jboss-beans.xml
   • ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml
   • ejb3-timerservice-jboss-beans.xml
   • hsqldb-ds.xml
   • jms-ra.rar
   • mail-ra.rar
   • mail-service.xml
   • profile-service-secured.jar
   • uuid-key-generator.sar
7. Delete the following in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/deployers]:
   • jboss-ejb3-endpoint-deployer.jar
   • messaging-definitions-jboss-beans.xml
8. Navigate to [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../server/default/deploy/ROOT.war]:
   • Clear contents in folder
   • Extract the liferay.war
9. By defining the portal domain, it will not allow parent classes to load first, and instead export all portal classes

   <classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
   	parent-first="false"
   	domain="LiferayDomain"
   	export-all="NON_EMPTY"
   	import-all="true">
   </classloading>

   • Add jboss-classloading.xml to [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../ROOT.war/WEB-INF] with the following content:
10. Add the following to portal-ext.properties:
     

    hibernate.validator.apply_to_ddl=false
    hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners=false

11. Delete the following in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/../ROOT.war/WEB-INF/lib]:

• jaxrpc.jar
• stax.jar
• xercesImpl.jar
• xml-­apis.jar

Startup

1. Start Liferay by running the following command in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/bin]:
   run.bat

Shutdown

1. Shutdown Liferay by running the following command in [L:/$JBOSS_BUNDLE/bin]:
   shutdown.bat

Deployment

• Add jboss-classloading.xml to the WEB-INF folder of each plugin, with the following content:
   

  <classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
      domain="PLUGINNAME-portlet"
      parent-domain="LiferayDomain"
      parent-first="false"
      top-level-classloader="false"
      export-all="NON_EMPTY"
      import-all="false">
  </classloading>

Plugins

• In order to hot deploy in the correct place, configure the portal-ext.properties with the following:
   

  auto.deploy.jboss.dest.dir=${jboss.home.dir}/server/default/deploy
  #(This one can be left like this, it will usually always detect)
  
  auto.deploy.deploy.dir=G:/jboss-eap-5.1/deploy
  #(This one needs to be the exact folder where you are going to be placing your .war files into.)