I finally was able to get everything setup and tested the FP01 rpms on a rhel 5 machine. I have successfully installed the jbossas and jboss-seam2 packages and dependencies. I was able to start the jbossas server.

I have attempted to deploy the booking example and I am getting the following exception during deployment.

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/validator/ClassValidator
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2395)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2519)
at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1406)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.hasAnnotation(Component.java:1070)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.<init>(Component.java:229)

It looks like the hibernate validator jar is not there. The jar is linked in the production server as below:

hibernate-validator.jar -> /usr/share/java/hibernate3-validator.jar

but the target jar does not exist. The " hibernate3-validator-3.0.0-0jpp.ep1.3.el5:0.noarch" package is part of the FP channel but is not on my system. There must be some missing dependency setting or something.

This effectively block my testing - so I will continue once there are fresh RPMs on stage - I'm assuming productization and release eng can take a look at this. Let me know when it is ready. Please smoke test the RPMs (at least one example) prior to qa handover.