JIRA and GlassFish
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |Officially, GlassFish is not a supported platform for JIRA, Atlassian’s extremly popular issue tracker. Since we’re migrating to GlassFish at work, it’s pretty important that we get it the two to work together. As it turns out, it’s really not that bad at all. Here’s what I had to do to get JIRA, PostgreSQL, Active Directory and GlassFish all playing nicely together.
The first step, of course, is to download the JIRA distribution (For our purpose here, I’m going to assume that GlassFish and PostgreSQL are already installed an running.) Once JIRA has been downloaded, we need to extract the archive to our work area and make our mods. In our case, the mods were pretty simple: database location, plus Active Directory integration, which means two files need to be modified.
For the database, you’ll need to modify entityengine.xml, which you will want to copy from webapp/WEB-INF/classes to edit-webapp/WEB-INF/classes. We’ll need to make two changes in this file: the transaction factory, and the data source. For the transaction factory, we need to locate the element, and edit it to look like this:
1
2
3
4
<transaction-factory class="org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory">
<user-transaction-jndi jndi-server-name="default" jndi-name="UserTransaction"/>
<transaction-manager-jndi jndi-server-name="default" jndi-name="UserTransaction"/>
</transaction-factory>
For the curious, that change is just the removal of java:comp/ from the JNDI name. For the data source, find the element toward the end of the file. This is what ours looks like:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
<datasource name="defaultDS" field-type-name="postgres72"
helper-class="org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericHelperDAO"
check-on-start="true"
use-foreign-keys="true"
use-foreign-key-indices="true"
check-fks-on-start="true"
check-fk-indices-on-start="true"
add-missing-on-start="true"
check-indices-on-start="true">
<jndi-jdbc jndi-server-name="default" jndi-name="jdbc/Jira"/>
</datasource>
Of course, you need to make sure that the datasource jdbc/Jira is configured in GlassFish. If you need help with that, this blog entry should be helpful. For Active Directory integration, copy osuser.xml from webapp/WEB-INF/classes to edit-webapp/WEB-INF/classes. Since this file is smaller, I’ll show it in its entirety:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
<opensymphony-user>
<authenticator
class="com.opensymphony.user.authenticator.SmartAuthenticator"/>
<provider
class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.ldap.LDAPCredentialsProvider">
<property name="java.naming.factory.initial">
com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
</property>
<property name="java.naming.provider.url">
ldap://foo:389
</property>
<property name="searchBase">
cn=Users,dc=foo
</property>
<property name="uidSearchName">
sAMAccountName
</property>
<property name="java.naming.security.principal">
cn=ESP Service Account,cn=Users,dc=foo
</property>
<property name="java.naming.security.credentials">
bar
</property>
<property name="exclusive-access">
true
</property>
</provider>
<provider
class="com.atlassian.core.ofbiz.osuser.CoreOFBizCredentialsProvider">
<property name="exclusive-access">true</property>
</provider>
<provider
class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.ofbiz.OFBizProfileProvider">
<property name="exclusive-access">true</property>
</provider>
<provider
class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.ofbiz.OFBizAccessProvider">
<property name="exclusive-access">true</property>
</provider>
</opensymphony-user>
Once those files have been created, from the root of the JIRA work directory, issue the command "build ear". Technically, you have a choice between WAR and EAR deployment. I chose EAR, as it saves me one step (changing the context root) at deployment. It will most likely take a few minutes for that task to complete. Once it has, log on to the GlassFish admin app, navigate to Applications→Enterprise Applications, click deploy, then click Browse to find your EAR, which will be in the directory dist-generic in your JIRA working directory. Select the ear, click OK, click Next, change the app name if you’d like, then click Finish. This process, too, will likely take a few minutes, but, once it’s done, you’re ready to point your browser at your new JIRA installation and begin configuring it. It’s that easy! ;)
My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997,
using a variety of languages, including Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Delphi, and even a bit of C#. I currently work for Red Hat
on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer,
Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume 