I'm running into a rather strange problem with JBoss. I have a web
application that looks up a resource and instantiates an URL to it as
follows:
final ServletContext ctx = session.getServletContext();
final String resourcePath = "/WEB-INF/web.xml";
final URL url = ctx.getResource(resourcePath);
final String externalForm = url.toExternalForm();
// The value of externalForm is something like
// "jndi:/localhost/problem/WEB-INF/web.xml".
// The following line fails under in specific situation
final URL url2 = new URL(externalForm);
This usually works as expected. However, I have another web
application deployed in the same JBoss server, and once I have
used this other one, the "new URL(...)" line fails with a
MalformedURLException:
java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: jndi
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:544)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:434)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:383)
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(...)
...
This other application is the WebViewerExample from BIRT 2.1.1
(http://www.eclipse.org/birt/), for those of you who would like to
reproduce the problem.
I see this problem on JBoss 4.0.1sp1 and 4.0.4. I have *not* been
able to reproduce it using plain Tomcat (5.0.x and 5.5.x).
Has anyone run into similar problem? Any suggestion for workaround?
Thanks.
-- Patrick
