JBoss AS startup, portlet does not get initialized

[frankr]

I have a couple of portlets deployed in a war package. If I deploy the war file after the application server is started the portlets start and work as expected. However if I restart the application server I have to redeploy my war file before the portlets work. There are no errors in the log file and if I access the portal, for every portlet it says "Object not found".

Any dependency I have to wait for on start-up of JBoss so that portlets do get properly initialized?

[theute]

I don't see this can happen, unless you modified the deployment order.

The default deployment order is to deploy sar files before war files. It means that jboss-portal.sar will be deployed before your war file anyway.

I would need more info, anything you can find or changed compare to a 'typical' war

[frankr]

Did not touch the deployment order (would not even know how to change that ;-))

It's a Seam / MyFaces application. In the web.xml the initialization for Seam and MyFaces is done. Nothing special in the portlet.xml and portlet-instances.xml.

The application does have a dependency on some EJB components so I defined the following in jboss-web.xml:

<jboss-web>
 <context-root>myapp</context-root>
 <depends>
 jboss.j2ee:service=EARDeployment,url='myapp-ear-1.0-SNAPSHOT.ear'
 </depends>
</jboss-web>

I have created a custom login portlet. For that reason my jboss-portlet.xml looks like this:

<portlet-app>
 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>MyAppPortlet</portlet-name>
 </portlet>

 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>AdditionalNavigationPortlet</portlet-name>
 <transaction>
 <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
 </transaction>
 </portlet>

 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>UserHeaderPortlet</portlet-name>
 <transaction>
 <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
 </transaction>
 </portlet>

 <service>
 <service-name>UserModule</service-name>
 <service-class>
 org.jboss.portal.identity.UserModule
 </service-class>
 <service-ref>:service=Module,type=User</service-ref>
 </service>
 <service>
 <service-name>PortalObjectContainer</service-name>
 <service-class>
 org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.PortalObjectContainer
 </service-class>
 <service-ref>:container=PortalObject</service-ref>
 </service>
 <service>
 <service-name>InstanceContainer</service-name>
 <service-class>
 org.jboss.portal.core.model.instance.InstanceContainer
 </service-class>
 <service-ref>:container=Instance</service-ref>
 </service>
 <service>
 <service-name>PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory</service-name>
 <service-class>
 org.jboss.portal.security.spi.auth.PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory
 </service-class>
 <service-ref>
 :service=PortalAuthorizationManagerFactory
 </service-ref>
 </service>
</portlet-app>

That's about all I can think of. Any clues?