4 Replies Latest reply on Jan 2, 2006 2:15 PM by clarif

Problem Deploying WAR File

yxw84 Nov 21, 2005 1:46 PM

Hi all,
I'm trying to deploy a .war file which contains JSPs in a subdirectory. When I move the JSPs into the root directory of the war, everything works fine. However, when I put them into a subdirectorycalled "temp" and modify web.xml appropriately, I get the following error:

10:41:50,711 ERROR [Tomcat5] Problem in init
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:558)
at org.jboss.util.file.JarUtils.unjar(JarUtils.java:258)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.init(AbstractWebContainer.java:296)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:828)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:765)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:738)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:121)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:249)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy8.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:325)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:501)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:204)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:215)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:194)
10:41:50,712 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/home/user2/jboss-4.0.2/server/all/deploy/test.war
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: String index out of range: 0; - nested throwable: (java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.init(AbstractWebContainer.java:346)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:828)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:765)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:738)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:121)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:249)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy8.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:325)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:501)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:204)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:215)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:194)
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:558)
at org.jboss.util.file.JarUtils.unjar(JarUtils.java:258)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.init(AbstractWebContainer.java:296)
... 21 more

The modification to web.xml looks like:

<servlet-name>tempName</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/temp/index.jsp</jsp-file>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>tempName</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/temp/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

index.jsp is a simply dummy page that prints "Hello". I did a forum search but wasn't able to find the answer to this, and according to the .war file documentation, everything I did was right. Can anyone please help me with this problem? I'm probably missing a very small detail somewhere. Thanks!

1. Re: Problem Deploying WAR File

yxw84 Nov 22, 2005 1:00 PM (in response to yxw84)

Okay, after more testing, I am now completely confused. I downloaded a sample war file off the web, at an installation/deployment tutorial: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/01/InstallingJBoss.html

The sample war is: http://today.java.net/today/2005/03/01/test.war

I tried deploying it by copying it into the deploy directory, it worked right away.

Then, I attempted to recreate a war file with the exact same contents called newtest.war. I copied the contents of the web.xml and index.jsp into newtest.war, and tried to deploy it, and got the exact same error as in my first post above.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this bizarre behaviour?
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2. Re: Problem Deploying WAR File

yxw84 Nov 22, 2005 1:22 PM (in response to yxw84)

Update: Deleting the web.xml and forcing JBoss to use the default web.xml works. However, I can't get by with a default web.xml as I need to start adding subdirectories to my webapp.

Here's a link to the non-working version of newtest.war, note it is identical to test.war but still does not work...

http://h1.ripway.com/yxw84/newtest.war
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3. Re: Problem Deploying WAR File

yxw84 Nov 22, 2005 1:54 PM (in response to yxw84)

Last Update: Found a solution. The new war we created was done using the JBoss EJB 3.0 plugin for Eclipse, which allows creation of packages like .war and .ejb3. When we specified the folders for the war file, we had a leading '/' which, while invisible in the final war file that was created, was somehow messing up the folder struture.

Sorry for the quadruple post. Thought I'd post how we solved it because similar posts about this on the forums have had no response.
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4. Re: Problem Deploying WAR File

clarif Jan 2, 2006 2:15 PM (in response to yxw84)

Found a solution to a similar problem; see my post if needed: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3915183#3915183.

Regards,
Fabrice.[/url]
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