Problem with cactus and jboss

[rstranders]

Hi,

I'm working on some EJB's, and I chose Cactus to test them. However,
when I tried to run the Cactus example
(http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/howto_tomcat.html), but
it didn't work because of the Jboss' security. I then decided to
package all needed jars and Servlets into one web-archive and deploy
it.

Now I get the following error when I call
http://localhost:8080/testcactus/ServletTestRunner?suite=TestSampleServlet&xsl=cactus-report.xsl:

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod.setRequestHeader(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod.setRequestHeader(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V
at org.apache.cactus.client.connector.http.HttpClientConnectionHelper.dispatch50_connect(HttpClientConnectionHelper.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:152)
at org.apache.cactus.client.connector.http.HttpClientConnectionHelper.around50_connect(HttpClientConnectionHelper.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:1222)
at org.apache.cactus.client.connector.http.HttpClientConnectionHelper.connect(HttpClientConnectionHelper.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:114)
.... and it goes on like this....

Especially the first line fascinates me. Where does the package
Ljava.lang.etc come from? I've never seen this before.

I'm really desparate here, I've tried everything. Perhaps someone
recognizes this problem and knows how to solve this?

thanks in advance,

Ruben

[oscpro]

Hi,

I ran into the same problem.

I solved this by replacing the commons-httpclient.jar file in $JBOSS_HOME/lib with the commons-httpclient-XXXX.jar file from the cactus distribution and restarting JBoss.

I guess a more elegant solution would be to change the default JBoss classloading mechanism. I didn't try it though.

Oscar.