Exception at startup: nested throwable DeploymentException

[monocongo]

I'm having an exception come up when I start JBoss, the exception trace is listed below. This started happening after I copied a SAR file into my deployment directory. The SAR contains an MBean and a jboss-service.xml. I can't find anything about this using Google, maybe someone here can shed some light on this. Thanks in advance !


-James



14:58:41,058 ERROR [MainDeployer] could not create deployment: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/UserManager.sar

org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: create operation failed for package file:/C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/UserManager.sar; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: - nested throwable: (java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException))
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.create(SARDeployer.java:202)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:786)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:641)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)

....

14:58:47,407 ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] MBeanException: Exception in MBean ope
ration 'checkIncompleteDeployments()'
Cause: Incomplete Deployment listing:
Packages waiting for a deployer:

Incompletely deployed packages:
[org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@9c6ddfd3 { url=file:/C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/UserManager.sar }
deployer: org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer@12a0f6c
status: Deployment FAILED reason: create operation failed for package file:/C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/UserManager.sar; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: - nested throwable: (java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException))
state: FAILED
watch: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/UserManager.sar
lastDeployed: 1086893921038
lastModified: 1086893921028
mbeans:
]MBeans waiting for classes:

MBeans waiting for other MBeans:

[monocongo]

Something interesting I have noticed -- the exception doesn't occcur when the SAR file is not in the deployment directory. I can load the SAR into the deployment directory after JBoss has already started and everything goes well. So it seems that it is a problem with the SAR being present when JBoss is starting up -- if it is absent and added after startup then everything works as advertised, but if the SAR is already deployed then I get the exception.

Does any of this make sense ? Is there a workaround ?


-James

[spiritualmechanic]

Look into using "depends" in your jboss-service.xml. Your SAR is dependent on something that isn't fully started when JBoss is first started.

[monocongo]

I have been able to workaround this by changing to the PrefixDeploymentSorter and prefixing my SAR file name with "1000" -- now the services are sorted with those starting with digits being deployed later, when 1000UserManager.sar is deployed all other services have already been deployed.

I modified the JBOSS/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml entry for the URLComparator:

 <!--
 <attribute name="URLComparator">org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter</attribute>
 -->
 <attribute name="URLComparator">org.jboss.deployment.scanner.PrefixDeploymentSorter</attribute>

If there are better ways of going about this then please follow up this thread with pertinent info. Thanks in advance.


-James

[monocongo]

I have tried using several depends in the jboss-service.xml of the SAR file but none have worked so far - is there a way to do something like depends=all ?

-James