10 Replies Latest reply on Nov 9, 2005 9:01 AM by mcevikce

    Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?

    dunks80

      JBoss 4.0.3
      jdk 1.5.0_04
      Fedora Core 4

      Sorry to raise yet another classloader question but this one has me stumped. I have an ear that has multiple wars. I have a lib folder in my ear that contains all the jars common to the application. I list all the jars in the ${myear}/lib in the manifest files of all the wars and the ear. The entires look like

      Class-Path: lib/common-jar1.jar lib/common-jar2.jar etc....
      I start the application and it's like the classloader completely ignores the manifest files. If I go ahead and specify where the common libraires are in the application.xml by using a bunch of

      ...
      <module>
       <java>lib/common-jar1.jar</java>
       </module>
      <module>
       <java>lib/common-jar2.jar</java>
       </module>
      ...
      


      the classes load up fine. I've used the manifest file like this before with previous versions of jboss is something different in jboss 4.0.3?

        • 1. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
          starksm64

          The tomcat class loader used by default since 4.0.2 does not honor the war manifest classpath, but the ear still does and the wars should pickup these classes. I'll recheck the unit test we have for this.

          • 2. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
            dunks80

            Thanks in the meantime i'm just loading the jars via the application.xml. One thing I should mention maybe is that the jars i'm loading are jars that are for working with myfaces. I removed the jsf-libs that come with jboss because i use the latest nightly build of myfaces and i didn't want an older jars being loaded. Not sure if that makes any difference.

            • 3. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
              starksm64

              Actually, the war manifest testcase is working so I would need to see your exact war manifest Class-Path. It does not make sense that the ear and war classpath would be exactly the same since they have different relative locations.

              • 4. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                rampratapa

                Hi We have the same problem in 4.0.3,

                I have the following manifest file and deploying ear.

                
                 class-path: ../erxlib/eRxUtilities.jar ../erxlib/IntroducerJAR.jar



                It is working fine in 4.0.02.

                Thanks
                Ram



                • 5. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                  starksm64

                  That is the class-path of the war in the ear or the ear?

                  • 6. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                    dunks80

                    here is my directory structure i don't put any jars in the WEB-INF/lib all the jars need by my web apps are held in the ear's lib directory...

                    myear
                     /lib
                     *common*.jar
                     web1.war
                     web2.war
                     ejb.ejb3
                     aop.aop
                     /META-INF
                     application.xml
                     MANIFEST.MF
                    


                    I only ever update the MANIFEST.MF file in my ear project. My build script then copies that "master" manifest to the various projects including wars and ejbs. Here is my manifest

                    Manifest-Version: 1.0
                    Class-Path: lib/my-commons.jar lib/urlrewrite-2.5.1.jar lib/standard.jar lib/myfaces-all.jar lib/jstl.jar lib/jsf-facelets.jar lib/jakarta-oro.jar lib/el-ri.jar lib/el-api.jar lib/commons-validator.jar lib/commons-logging.jar lib/commons-lang-2.1.jar lib/commons-httpclient-3.0-rc3.jar lib/commons-fileupload.jar lib/commons-el.jar lib/commons-digester.jar lib/commons-collections.jar lib/commons-codec.jar lib/commons-beanutils.jar
                    


                    here is my current application.xml file which I am using as a work around until i figure out why the manifest classes aren't being loaded...
                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
                    <application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
                     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.4"
                     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application_1_4.xsd">
                     <display-name>myear</display-name>
                     <module >
                     <web>
                     <web-uri>web1.war</web-uri>
                     <context-root>/web1</context-root>
                     </web>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <web>
                     <web-uri>web2.war</web-uri>
                     <context-root>/web2</context-root>
                     </web>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <ejb>ejb.ejb3</ejb>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <ejb>aop.aop</ejb>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <java>lib/myfaces-all.jar</java>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <java>lib/my-commons.jar</java>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <java>lib/jsf-facelets.jar</java>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <java>lib/el-ri.jar</java>
                     </module>
                     <module>
                     <java>lib/el-api.jar</java>
                     </module>
                    </application>
                    



                    I really think this has something to do with myfaces because the errors are only on the myfaces related jars that need to be loaded via the application.xml in order for my app to work. My my-commons.jar also needs to be loaded because it contains custom jsf components so it too is jsf related. Could this have something to do with the myfaces org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener?

                    • 7. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                      starksm64

                      A potential conflict with myfaces is that we bundle it with our tomcat, and if its not using the correct thread context class load I could see a problem. You could try removing the jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs to see if that is somehow conflicting. Alternatively, you could just remove the myfaces classes from your deployment.

                      • 8. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                        dunks80

                        Already removed the jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs because that was definitely casuing a problem since i was using a more up to date version of them than what came with JBoss. I suppose i could remove the libraries from my deployment or replace the libraries in jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs with the more up to date libraries but something about that feels wrong...what happens when i get this ear deployed to production and then i want to deploy another ear with new jsf libs? Do i risk the deployed ear breaking. Maybe not a huge problem but still a concern. Anyway, the current solution of just including the libraries in the application.xml file seems to work alright. I appreciate you looking into this Scott. Let me know if you think of anything else. Thanks

                        • 9. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?
                          rampratapa

                          Hi We have problem with JBOSS 4.0.3 as it is not looking into the manifest file. We have the following directory structure from JBOSS default directory.

                          default
                          deploy
                          applib
                          commonlib


                          in our EAR deployed in deploy directory we have the following mainfest file under META-INF director in the EAR package.

                          class-path: ../applib/appUtilities.jar ../commonlib/ DOM4j.jar


                          Now in JBOSS 4.0.3 version it is not loading the appUitlities.jar and DOM4j.jar. But it is working fine in 4.0.2

                          Any help is appreciated


                          • 10. Re: Does JBoss 4.0.3 look at the manifest?

                            We have the same problem in Jboss 4.0.2 except we can get it to work. I am deploying a ear file:

                            ear:
                            my.war
                            /META-INF
                            application.xml
                            jboss-app.xmk
                            Manifest.mf
                            jar1.jar
                            jar2.jar

                            Application.xml:

                            <display-name>myapp</display-name>


                            <web-uri>my.war</web-uri>
                            <context-root>/myapp</context-root>


                            jar1.jar
                            jar2.jar


                            Manifest.mf:
                            Manifest-Version: 1.0
                            Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5
                            Created-By: 1.5.0_05-b05 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
                            Class-Path: jar1.jar jar2.jaIt finds the jars eventually but all the configuration files (.xml, properties ) are not found by my servlet. Servlet is deployed part of the war.

                            If I deploy my application as war only and include all the jars in the WEB-INF/lib then application runs fine. Problem occurs when I try to deploy this as EAR and move the jars out of war to ear.

                            Any help will be appriciated.

                            Thank you