[Building Sakai] Hibernate DocType DTD files and slow Sakai startups

[Raymond Naseef]

We were using JBoss 4.0.3sp1, and we had (probably still have) many
applications using Hibernate 3 that worked fine with Hibernate on JBoss.
 We ran into that problem with one application in early 2012, and I found
that one of the tricks that was tried was changing DOCTYPE entry to:

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">


I don't think that change worked at all, and we ended up copying DTD to our
domain, something like:

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.our.domain/hibernate/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">


I think the issue was related to the setting not starting with "www" was
not working right:

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">


By the way, JBoss runs on top of Catalina.  In fact, it deploys Tomcat (at
least used to) as a SAR.


If you let me know what version of JBoss you are using, I may be able to
test with copy of Sakai I have on my computer.  Does it take a lot of work
to configure JBoss to handle the Sakai properties and libraries?


-Ray



On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Robert Sedzik wrote:
>
>  Hi Noah,
>
> I know about the JBoss thing but we are currently "stuck" in this setup...
>
> I have attempted Raymond's solution with so far no working result.
> I will try more at work tomorrow.
>
> However, if possible a nice solution (if you ask me) would be not to
> modify too much of the Sakai
> code but more the build process.
>
>
> Got it -- agreed.
>
> I have been looking at XML catalog and catalog.properties.
>
> Maybe that is what you meant Noah when you wrote?
>
> If they are, there may be a way to use something like URIResolver or
> EntityResolver.
>
>
>
> Yes, exactly. We've looked into local catalogs elsewhere to work around
> this without changing URIs.
>
> Something like this, maybe:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6331831/referring-to-a-local-dtd-in-java
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
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