Installing JIRA on Caucho Resin 3.x

(if you don't already have Resin installed)

Download Resin from http://www.caucho.com/download/index.xtp and expand the distribution to a directory.

2.1 Add extra Resin jars

Resin does not come with a few libraries that JIRA needs to run properly. These files have been placed in a zip file that you can download here. Unzip the jars in this file into the resin/lib directory.

2.2 Define database connection

You'll need to define a database connection (datasource) in Resin for JIRA to use. Open conf/resin.conf and search for 'database' to locate the correct section (after '</web-app-default>'). Exactly what text to add depends on what database you use (see database configurations). Here we assume hsqldb:

    <database>
      <jndi-name>jdbc/JiraDS</jndi-name>
      <driver>
        <type>org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</type>
        <url>jdbc:hsqldb:/tmp/jiradb</url>
        <user>sa</user>
        <password></password>
      </driver>
    </database>

Ensure the database driver jar file is in the lib/ directory. The hsqldb jar file (containing org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver used in the example above) should already be present. Other database notes and driver details are listed here.

Resin 3.0.9 bugs

Resin 3.0.9 has a bug (fixed in 3.0.11) that prevents JIRA CSS stylesheets being used. To work around this, add the following to conf/app-default.xml, below the similar 'resin-jsp' definition:

 <servlet servlet-name="jsp"
           servlet-class="com.caucho.jsp.JspServlet">
    <load-on-startup/>
  </servlet>
        

Another Resin 3.0.9 bug causes the logout page to be untranslated. This is fixed in Resin 3.0.11, or see the workaround on JRA-2685.

Open the edit-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/entityengine.xml file, and make the following changes:

3.1 Modify transaction factory attribute

Make the following changes (in bold) to the <transaction-factory> tag:

<transaction-factory
  class="org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory">
  <user-transaction-jndi jndi-server-name="default"
    jndi-name="java:comp/UserTransaction" />
  <transaction-manager-jndi jndi-server-name="default"
    jndi-name="java:comp/TransactionManager" />
</transaction-factory>

3.2 Modify datasource attributes

Lower down in entityengine.xml, check that the field-type-name attribute specifies the correct type of database in use, and that the JNDI name (jdbc/JiraDS) is the same as that specified in the database definition, eg:

   <datasource name="defaultDS" field-type-name="hsql"
      schema-name="PUBLIC"
      helper-class="org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericHelperDAO"
      check-on-start="true"
      use-foreign-keys="false"
      use-foreign-key-indices="false"
      check-fks-on-start="false"
      check-fk-indices-on-start="false"
      add-missing-on-start="true"
      check-indices-on-start="true">
      <jndi-jdbc jndi-server-name="default" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/JiraDS"/>
    </datasource>

Now build JIRA by typing build (Windows) or ./build.sh (Unix) on the command-line. This will produce the web application to deploy in the dist-generic directory.

You can add the JIRA WAR to resin/resin.conf manually, or just copy it to the resin/webapps directory.

Placing the WAR in the resin/webapps directory should cause Resin to deploy it automatically when Resin starts.

Start Resin as follows:

export JAVA_ARGS="-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl"
cd bin
./httpd.sh

Setting JAVA_ARGS avoids a bug in Resin's built-in XML parser which breaks JIRA data imports.

JIRA should now be accessible at http://localhost:8080/(insert name of your WAR file).

If certain pages break with errors like this:

        Note: sun.tools.javac.Main has been deprecated.
        /jira/secure/views/browser/browseproject.jsp:34: Variable pageContext may
        not have been initialized.
        pageContext.write(_jsp_string4, 0, _jsp_string4.length);
        ^
      

The solution is to change Resin's compiler from 'internal' to 'javac'. See this Resin FAQ for more background.

Have experiences to share with Resin and JIRA? We welcome your thoughts. Please see the user-contributed Resin notes.