Web Application with Maven not create connection pool and JNDI automaticly in Glassfish

Question

When I deploy my web application witch use JDBC Connection pool and JNDI with Netbeans, this both created automaticly in Glassfish.

When I use Maven to create the same application, the JDBC Connection pool and JNDI not create automaticly and show me this error:

Error

Grave: Exception while preparing the app : Invalid resource : moduleJNDI__pm
java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid resource : moduleJNDI__pm

I know the solution of this error, I just create the JNDI manualy.

My Question is: is there any solution or configuration to create the JNDI automaticly in the server Glassfish like the ordinary application, or is that a problem with Maven.

N.B

I use the server: Glassfish 3.1.2.2, Netbeans 8.1

Thank you.

Answer 1

Create a glassfish-resources.xml file to define your database connection and make sure it ends up in your WEB-INF folder. You could just put it there as a static file, but in most projects I work on I need a different connection in development. You could use the Maven WAR plugin to take care of that (handling it as a filterable resource). For example, create the glassfish-resources.xml in your project at /src/main/resources_WEB-INF. Now you can put it in your WEB-INF folder when you build your project. See this pom.xml fragment:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.6</version>
      <configuration>
        <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
        <webResources>
          <resource>
            <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources_WEB-INF</directory>
            <filtering>true</filtering>
            <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
          </resource>
        </webResources>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

See also

• how to deploy a webapp and create its resources
• Creating a Simple Web Application Using a MySQL Database