The Filemgr tomcat is strictly configured to work with Axis and Filemgr application.
You should not use it for custom web application.

However, problem could be related to the url that you are using to getIntance of AgileSessionFactory
AgileSessionFactory(String url, String username, String password).
Can you please write the codethat you are use to create the IAGileSession in your custom code?

Thanks antonio.

1. why is that a problem to run the custom app on the filemanager? 

2,here is my code. i passed null values because i dont know how to fetch the user password from the url (i see only the user name)  :

public String getObjectName()
{
try{

AgileSessionFactory ag = AgileSessionFactory.getInstance(null);  
IAgileSession sess = ag.createSession(null);

return … //should get some object from the session but failes on the first line,,,

}

catch ( APIException ex )
{
return (“Failed Getting object name from context ” + ex.getErrorCode()+ex.getRootCause().getMessage()+” ” +System.getProperty(“java.io.tmpdir”) );

}

}

Hi,
Problem is related to teh fact that this tomcat can have custom libraries just to work with FileManager. Also some server configuration can be done ad hoc for FileMgr.

However, the value passes to the getInstance has to be the AgileURL (http://myserver:7001/Agile) 
So it becomes:
AgileSessionFactory ag = AgileSessionFactory.getInstance(“http://myserver:7001/Agile“);  

To get the user information, an URL PX shares with other applications the user cookies “j_username” and “j_password” that you can use to create an IAgileSession in your application .

AgileSessionFactory factory = AgileSessionFactory.getInstance(myAgileUrl);
params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_USERNAME, j_usernameValue);
params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_PASSWORD, j_passwordValue);
IAgileSession session = factory.createSession(params);
...

wi will try that thanks!

is there  documentation on how to use the api through webapps? (i mean, where could i found this cookies solution)

You can use link below to access to the full ocumentation for Process Extensions
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50306_27/otn/pdf/integration/html_agaaq/output/chapter_3.htm

3.6.4 Passing Encoded Agile PLM Information to Other Applications
where there a full example

Example 3-6 Creating IAgileSessions with PX_USERNAME and PX_PASSWORD fields
private IAgileSession connect(Cookie[] cookies) throws Exception {
factory = AgileSessionFactory.getInstance("http://agileserver/Agile");
HashMap params = new HashMap();
 String username = null;
 String pwd = null;
 for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
 if (cookies[i].getName().equals("j_username"))
  username = cookies[i].getValue();
  else if (cookies[i].getName().equals("j_password"))
  pwd = cookies[i].getValue();
}
params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_USERNAME, username);
 params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_PASSWORD, pwd);
 session = factory.createSession(params);
return session;
}

hi antonio ,

i have been printing the cookies name from the request and i dont see the j_username or j_password cookie.

these are the ones i see:
JSESSIONID 7topCreatePopupSize START_UPLOAD_IMMED UNZIP UPLOAD_TO_SINGLE_FF FILE_FOLDER_TYPE jsDebug invalidate_session

tried also 

private IAgileSession connect(HttpServletRequest request) throws ServletExceptio

{
  HashMap params = new HashMap();
  params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_REQUEST, request);
  session = factory.createSession(params);
  return session;
}


(with the factory created by the url) and got :

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /PXinputTemplate.jsp at line 83

80: 
81:    
82:    
83:    javabeanforpx.JavaBeanForPX px= new javabeanforpx.JavaBeanForPX(request,agileServerURL); %>
84: 
85:   <div class='container'>
86:     <div class='panel panel-primary dialog-panel'>


Stacktrace:
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:568)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:455)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
	org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:51)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.agile.api.pc.ServerProperties
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:912)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:841)
	org.apache.jsp.PXinputTemplate_jsp._jspService(PXinputTemplate_jsp.java:282)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
	org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:51)

root cause

I have never tried the creation of session as below

HashMap params = new HashMap();

params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_REQUEST, request);

session = factory.createSession(params);

But it is strange that your request has not any Cookie in the request. From where do you run the UrlPX?

In my case, when I run an URLPX from the action menu of an item, I found them.

Probably could be a matter of server configuration

have a look also at this doc section:

hey antontion,

i think it might be related to class/jar files that are missing on tomcat.
which jar files should i have in my tomcat app and where?

i have agileAPI.jar and sdk.jar on my WEB-INF/libs folder

Hi,

the only api that you have to put is the web app dependencies (AgileAPI.jar and yourCustomTool.jar)
But the one that is missing is related to the weblogic.jar (you can find it in Weblogic server shared lib). This jar is involved only inside the Agile environment and not in the FileMgr. In the normal usage, the ServerProperties should not be called. In your case is called because of the code below is used but I think that is always related to the fact that your http request is not fullfilled with all required elements to create a Session

params.put(AgileSessionFactory.PX_REQUEST, request);
  session = factory.createSession(params);