Failed to find UserTransaction named java:comp/env/UserTransaction in JNDI when deploying Jira on Tomcat 6

[Mihai Mihai]

Hi,

I'm having issues deploying Jira 5 on Tomcat 6.

Jira works, but it's very slow and catalina.out is full of messages like the one attached

012-03-28 07:28:55,535 QuartzWorker-1 WARN ServiceRunner    com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.bamboo.service.PlanStatusUpdateServiceImpl:job [core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory] [JNDIFactory.getUserTransaction] Failed to find UserTransaction named java:comp/env/UserTransaction in JNDI.
2012-03-28 07:28:55,536 QuartzWorker-1 WARN ServiceRunner    com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.bamboo.service.PlanStatusUpdateServiceImpl:job [core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory] NamingException while finding UserTransaction named java:comp/env/UserTransaction in JNDI.
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name UserTransaction is not bound in this Context
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:770)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153)
        at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:152)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory.getUserTransaction(JNDIFactory.java:113)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.TransactionFactory.getUserTransaction(TransactionFactory.java:93)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.TransactionUtil.getStatus(TransactionUtil.java:81)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SQLProcessor.getConnection(SQLProcessor.java:412)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDAO.select(GenericDAO.java:464)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericHelperDAO.findByPrimaryKey(GenericHelperDAO.java:78)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDelegator.findByPrimaryKey(GenericDelegator.java:541)
        at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDelegator.findByPrimaryKey(GenericDelegator.java:576)
        at com.opensymphony.module.propertyset.ofbiz.OFBizPropertySet.get(OFBizPropertySet.java:277)
        at com.opensymphony.module.propertyset.AbstractPropertySet.getString(AbstractPropertySet.java:305)
        at com.atlassian.sal.jira.scheduling.JiraPluginSchedulerService.run(JiraPluginSchedulerService.java:71)
        at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainerImpl.run(JiraServiceContainerImpl.java:61)
        at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.execute(ServiceRunner.java:47)
        at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:195)
        at com.atlassian.multitenant.quartz.MultiTenantThreadPool$MultiTenantRunnable.run(MultiTenantThreadPool.java:72)
        at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)

The Transaction Factory in my entityengine.xml looks like this

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

I use Tomcat 6.0.35.

Does anyone know whant I can do to make jira work well on Tomcat 6?

Thanks a lot,

Mihai

[Tiago Comasseto]

Hi Mihai,

I was able to fix this issue following the instructions of this KB. After the modification, my jira.xml is now looking like this:

<Context path="/jira" docBase="/opt/Atlassian/atlassian-jira-5.1.5-war/install/dist-generic/atlassian-jira-5.1.5.war" debug="0" useHttpOnly="true">

<Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container" type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"
factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory" jotm.timeout="60"/>
<Manager pathname=""/>

</Context>

I hope this helps.

Cheers

[Hui Zhang]

I have the same issues, and add the jira.xml file like Tiago said, but it's stil get the same issues. Can someone help? thanks,