Adding Seam to an existing EJB2 application
kummer Sep 12, 2007 12:20 PMI'm trying to add Seam to an old EJB2 application so that we can do new development in Seam and gradually port the old stuff into Seam.
I starting by merging the deployment directory of an "empty" Seam application, SeamApp, (created with seam-gen new-project) into the exploaded deployment legacy application, just to see if this was workable. There isn't really that much to copy across:
- the jars, including SeamApp.jar.
- module entries in META-INF/application.xml.
- security.drl - the jboss rules' security defintions.
- Seam-specific entries in web.xml
- other files in SeamApp.war
I left META-INF/jboss-app.xml intact. It already contains a <loader-repository> entry and cannot have two.
After this the old application worked fine and I could access home.seam.
Next I created a SFSB, DemoManager, using create-conversation in seam-gen and copied the diff of the deploy the same way to the deploeyd old app. This time (also after server restart) I get an exception when trying to access the new page:
18:14:16,421 ERROR [STDERR] 12.09.2007 18:14:16 com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler handleRenderException SCHWERWIEGEND: Error Rendering View[/demoManager.xhtml] javax.el.ELException: /demoManager.xhtml: Exception getting value of property value of base of type : org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_0 at com.sun.facelets.compiler.TextInstruction.write(TextInstruction.java:48) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.UIInstructions.encodeBegin(UIInstructions.java:39) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:280) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.PanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(PanelRenderer.java:189) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.PanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(PanelRenderer.java:184) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.encodeChildren(RendererBase.java:121) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:524) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentSupport.encodeRecursive(ComponentSupport.java:244) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentSupport.encodeRecursive(ComponentSupport.java:249) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:573) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:229) at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:384) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:138) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:63) at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:79) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:234) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at lu.deka.servlets.LoggedInFilter.doFilter(LoggedInFilter.java:56) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:96) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:175) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:432) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:74) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:156) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Bean: org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_0, property: value at org.apache.myfaces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getProperty(PropertyResolverImpl.java:442) at org.apache.myfaces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:82) at com.sun.facelets.el.LegacyELContext$LegacyELResolver.getValue(LegacyELContext.java:141) at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:125) at com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:195) at com.sun.facelets.el.ELText$ELTextVariable.writeText(ELText.java:184) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.TextInstruction.write(TextInstruction.java:45) ... 56 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.myfaces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getProperty(PropertyResolverImpl.java:438) ... 62 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not invoke method by reflection: DemoManager.getValue() on: $Proxy167 at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:30) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInvocationContext.proceed(RootInvocationContext.java:31) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.ClientSideInterceptor$1.proceed(ClientSideInterceptor.java:72) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:57) at org.jboss.seam.interceptors.RemoveInterceptor.aroundInvoke(RemoveInterceptor.java:40) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInterceptor.invoke(RootInterceptor.java:103) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.ClientSideInterceptor.invoke(ClientSideInterceptor.java:50) at org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_0.getValue(Object_$$_javassist_0.java) ... 67 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:20) ... 75 more
Do you have any idea how to solve this or am I perhaps on the wrong track altogeather?
Cheers
Thor