[GIS] How to get JAI + JBoss 7.1.1 + Geoserver 2.3.0 to work

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I'm trying to use JBoss 7.1.1 instead Tomcat.

My configuration:

Ubuntu 12.04 64bit
Oracle JDK 1.7 (env varibles are set correctly)
JAI and JAI ImageIO installed by following help document: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/java.html (this manual works with Tomcat)
Geoserver 2.3.0 (war file)
Jboss 7.1.1 (out-the-box)

Problem: After following the documents, both JAI and JAI ImageIO are not show as true in "server state" panel (Has Geoserver not found them?).

I did the same steps like in Tomcat, but I'm a total noob with Jboss. I think that JBoss does not search in CLASSPATH for JAI extension, and it need to include JAI like a JBoss "module", but I couldnot find any information about that.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: I have included the jar files, from the JAI installation file, in the WAR file, inside the path "/WEB-INF/lib", and now shown this in the panel:
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UPDATE 2: I put the .so (from JAI packages) in "/usr/lib", no luck. My co-worker is compiling Geoserver, in Eclipse, to see if we see happening in Jboss while loading the JAI. We hope to find a solution (I will share it here).

UPDATE 3: It's a problem in Jboss configuration. We will write down the solution as soon as possible.

Best Answer

I have the same problem, I have tried importing the geoserver code as an eclipse project and then deploying it to a JBoss instance and in that case JAI libraries are loaded without any problem. That is because eclipse launch their own paths to load that libraries, so if you want JBoss to be capable of loading these libraries you have to:

Copy your .so or .dll in the path $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386 or $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64
Make a new JBoss modules for the libraries: $JBOSS_HOME/modules/com/sun/media/jai/ $JBOSS_HOME/modules/com/sun/media/jai/imageio/

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1. Add wo geoserver.war/WEB-INF the following xml

jboss-classloading.xml

<classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0" 
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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        <module name="org.slf4j" />
        <module name="org.apache.log4j" />
        <module name="org.jboss.logging" />
        <module name="org.apache.commons.logging" />
        <module name="org.jboss.logging.jul-to-slf4j-stub" />
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<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="sun.jdk">
<resources>
    <!-- currently jboss modules has not way of importing services from
    classes.jar so we duplicate them here -->
    <resource-root path="service-loader-resources"/>
</resources>
<dependencies>
    <system export="true">
        <paths>
            <path name="com/sun/script/javascript"/>
            <path name="com/sun/jndi/dns"/>
            <path name="com/sun/jndi/ldap"/>
            <path name="com/sun/jndi/url"/>
            <path name="com/sun/jndi/url/dns"/>
            <path name="com/sun/security/auth"/>
            <path name="com/sun/security/auth/login"/>
            <path name="com/sun/security/auth/module"/>
            <path name="sun/misc"/>
            <path name="sun/io"/>
            <path name="sun/nio"/>
            <path name="sun/nio/ch"/>
            <path name="sun/security"/>
            <path name="sun/security/krb5"/>
            <path name="sun/util"/>
            <path name="sun/util/calendar"/>
            <path name="sun/util/locale"/>
            <path name="sun/security/provider"/>
            <path name="META-INF/services"/>
        </paths>
        <exports>
            <include-set>
                <path name="META-INF/services"/>
            </include-set>
        </exports>
    </system>
</dependencies>
</module>

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