Deploy a Service Interface

Set Deployment Properties

To ensure that the deployment process runs smoothly, you must set some options that tell Visual COBOL what application server to use and where to find certain files.

1. From the Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB service interface; then click Properties.
2. Ensure that the Java interface type property is set to EJB (default).
3. Click the Application files to deploy field, and then click its corresponding Browse button to add the following files:

   File	Project Folder
   bookfile.dat	ProgramEJB
   bookfile.idx	ProgramEJB
   book.dll	ProgramEJB > bin > x86 > Debug

   These files are copied to the enterprise server region when you deploy. The .dat and .idx files are the data and index parts of the indexed file accessed by the service. The .dll is the executable file you need to debug the service.
4. Set the Application server to JBoss 6.1.0 (Java6).
5. Click the Browse button that corresponds to the Classpath field and add the following EJB connector class files, all of which are located in your JBoss installation's client subfolder:
   • jboss-ejb-api_3.1_spec.jar
   • jboss-connector-api_1.5_spec.jar
   • jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec.jar
6. Accept the default values for all other fields.

Associate the ESDEMO Enterprise Server Region

You need to associate the ESDEMO enterprise server region with your ProgramEJB project:

1. From Server Explorer, expand localhost under Micro Focus Servers to see a list of available enterprise server regions.
2. Right-click ESDEMO; then click Associate with Project > ProgramEJB.

Start the ESDEMO Enterprise Server Region

Before deploying your service interface, you must start the ESDEMO region where the ProgramEJB service will run.

1. From the Server Explorer, expand localhost under Micro Focus Servers to see a list of available enterprise server regions.
2. To start the ESDEMO enterprise server region, right-click it; then click Start.
   Note: If this is the first time you have started the server you see a sign-on dialog box. If Store Credentials is not checked, check it. Checking Store Credentials prevents this dialog box from showing by default when you subsequently start an enterprise server region. Then click OK.

The Enterprise Server Console Daemon is then invoked, starting the enterprise server region.

Build the ProgramEJB project

You need to generate a .dll executable file from your project to deploy with your service interface. This is necessary so that you can debug the service after generating a client.

• From Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB project; then click Build on the context menu.

Deploy the ProgramEJB service interface

• From the Solution Explorer, right-click the ProgramEJB service interface; then click Deploy.

The Output window shows the progression of the deployment process. If deployment was successful, you should see a message indicating success.

If deployment ever fails, you should find a message in the output window indicating why it failed. Also, the failure message contains the path to the deployment log file. You can type the address into a browser and view the log file from there.

View deployment results

Now that your service interface has been deployed as a service running on the ESDEMO enterprise server, you can look at the details of the deployed service Enterprise Server Administration page.

1. From Server Explorer, right-click Micro Focus Servers; then click Administration.

   The Enterprise Server Administration Home page appears in a window of the Visual Studio IDE.

   In the row showing information for the ESDEMO enterprise server, you should see that the Objects column shows the number of services that this enterprise server runs. In this case, the number of running services should be at least 9. These are the five that come standard with the ESDEMO enterprise server, plus the one service you added containing four operations. You might see more if you have deployed other services to the ESDEMO enterprise server.

2. Click the Details button for the ESDEMO Services.

   In the row showing your new service, ProgramEJB, you'll notice that the Current Status column shows all four operations as Available. This means that the service is ready to be access by a client.