problem deploying a war in an ear

[mhiggins]

I am running Jboss 3.2.4

I have an ear with the following layout

app.ear
 app.war
 app.jar
 app.sar
 META-INF
 application.xml
 jboss-app.xml

I can deploy the war on its own no problem but when I package it in the ear and deploy that I get the the following:

Cause: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.setLoader(org.apache.catalina.Loader))
Cause: org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error during deploy; - nested throwable: (ReflectionException: Cannot find setter method setLoader StandardContext[null]
Cause: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.setLoader(org.apache.catalina.Loader))
ObjectName: jboss.j2ee:service=EARDeployment,url='app.ear'

I looked trough all of the jars in JBOSS_HOME and found the above package in catlina.jar which is in the jbossweb-tomcat50.sar. I attempted to include this in my ear and got another err. I am confident this is not the crrect solution anyway. Any help would be appreciated.

Here are what I belive to be the relavant parts of my server/app config:

application.xml

<application>
 <display-name>Our App</display-name>
 <module>
 <web>
 <web-uri>app.war</web-uri>
 <context-root>/app</context-root>
 </web>
 </module>

 <module>
 <java>app.jar</java>
 </module>

</application>

jboss-app.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<jboss-app>
 <loader-repository>ourco:loader=app.ear</loader-repository>

 <module>
 <service>app.sar</service>
 </module>

</jboss-app>

jboss-service.xml (This is just a snip of the complete config please advise if I need to post more)

 <mbean code="org.jboss.management.j2ee.LocalJBossServerDomain"
 name="jboss.management.local:j2eeType=J2EEDomain,name=Manager">
 <attribute name="MainDeployer">jboss.system:service=MainDeployer</attribute>
 <attribute name="SARDeployer">jboss.system:service=ServiceDeployer</attribute>
 <attribute name="EARDeployer">jboss.j2ee:service=EARDeployer</attribute>
 <attribute name="WARDeployer">jboss.web:service=WebServer</attribute>
 <attribute name="JNDIService">jboss:service=Naming</attribute>
 <attribute name="JTAService">jboss:service=TransactionManager</attribute>
 </mbean>

[mhiggins]

Ok fixed the probelm by removing the loader-repository decleration in jboss-app

<loader-repository>ourco:loader=app.ear</loader-repository>

since this is the only app deployed in this server I don't care about
polluting the classpath. Still not sure of the total purose of this, besids walling apps off from eacher, but this is the "Beginners Corner" after all.