EAR validation?

[jagdeep]

Is there a tool that does EAR format validations? Things like if all the descriptors are present as hosuld be etc?
Basically trying to deploy an EAR from JRun to JBoss and get the following messages for a lot of XML, JSP and other property files:
Package waiting for deployer.

In some other post I had read that this might happen if the EAR is named as deploy.ear, but that is not the case in my scenario.
Thanks.

[peterj]

It is impossible to debug any issue on a partial error message excerpt. Please post the full, first exception stack trace.

The "package waiting for deployer" means that there is no deployer for that type of package. What package? I have no idea, you did not include that in your post (the full stack trace will include that info).

[jagdeep]

Ok. I am pasting the log I get per file. I get the same message for a bunch of other files:

2008-08-06 17:30:44,415 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Deployment of package: file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/app1-war/index.jsp is waiting for an appropriate deployer.
2008-08-06 17:30:44,415 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Watch URL for: file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/app1-war/index.jsp -> file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/app1-war/index.jsp
2008-08-06 17:30:44,415 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing:

--- Packages waiting for a deployer ---
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@9bf0d9a1 { url=file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/META-INF/application.xml }
deployer: null
status: null
state: INIT_WAITING_DEPLOYER
watch: file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/META-INF/application.xml
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1218058244040
lastModified: 1218058244040
mbeans:

Similar messages for multiple files ending with:

org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@271dfd65 { url=file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/app1-war/index.jsp }
deployer: null
status: null
state: INIT_WAITING_DEPLOYER
watch: file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1/app1-war/index.jsp
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1218058244415
lastModified: 1218058244383
mbeans:

[jaikiran]

file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1

Rename app1 to app1.ear

[jagdeep]

thanks, that worked to a degree, but I am getting another exception now (see below). I have not 'jarred' these files since I thinkthat exploded directories should work in JBoss(?), so the .ear, .war, .ejb are folders:

I think the problem might be in line 3 from below, as usually WAR URL should point to the tmp directory eg: ' warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp20973example3.ear-contents/example3-exp.war/'

But I don't know what the cause is.


16:53:57,210 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/jmx-console, warUrl=.../deploy/jmx-console.war/
16:53:57,585 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/C:/software/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/app1.ear/
16:53:57,851 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/, warUrl=.../deploy/app1.ear/app1.war/
16:53:57,976 ERROR [Digester] End event threw exception
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor49.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.callMethodN(IntrospectionUtils.java:932)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.CallMethodMultiRule.end(WebRuleSet.java:792)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:229)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1136)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endNamespaceScope(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1643)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationWebConfig(ContextConfig.java:369)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:1062)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:261)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4263)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:790)

[jagdeep]

oh, or maybe the 'tmp' directory is only used when the ear/war are unexploded. sorry for misguiding but the problem remains for me.

[peterj]

Based on this:

16:53:57,851 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/, warUrl=.../deploy/app1.ear/app1.war/

it appears that app1 is using the default context. Have you removed ROOT.war? It also uses the default context.

[jagdeep]

I tried by removing Root.war. Still get the same error. I also tried adding / removing <context-root> tags from application.xml and jboss-web.xml. Get the same exception. Am I missing defining the root context somewhere? btw I would want to keep it default.

[pschor]

Did you solve this? I have the same problem. Thanks