request for doco - upgrading app from 4.2.3 deploy to 5.1

[toastchee]

Hi gang,

Sincere apologies if this has been asked before.

I want to upgrade an app that is successfully running on 4.2.3 to the newer 5.x series. I have made some progress but it is not complete. I understand so far that it is largely a deployment descriptor update and have tested recommended changes to the application.xml and the web.xml files. It still does not deploy successfully on 5.1 (I am not at my workplace at the moment for sharing the stack trace).

We do not have any ejbs as part of our app, thus no persistence.xml file.

Could someone point me to the canonical upgrade doco?

thanks --

Dan

Charleston, SC

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

I don't know of an upgrade guide ;-). The most common problem is that the xml validator became more strict and now complains more often if e.g. element order does not match the schema definition, so that your configuration files don't validate any more.

Do you have an error message?

Best regards

Wolfgang

[toastchee]

Hi thanks for the reply. Here's the first error I encounter.

14:24:15,218 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Parse: name=vfszip:/C:/dpm/servers/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp-gwt-server.ear state=Not Installed mode=Manual requiredSt
ate=Parse
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error creating managed object for vfszip:/C:/dpm/servers/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp-gwt-server.ear/myapp-gwt-server.war
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:337)
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:297)
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:269)
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.deploy(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:230)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1210)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1598)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1062)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
         at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:545)
         at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.scan(HDScanner.java:290)
         at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.run(HDScanner.java:221)
         at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:280)
         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:135)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:65)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:142)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:166)
         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException
         at java.lang.Class.cast(Class.java:2951)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.JBossXBDeployerHelper.parse(JBossXBDeployerHelper.java:215)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.JBossXBDeployerHelper.parse(JBossXBDeployerHelper.java:170)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.SchemaResolverDeployer.parse(SchemaResolverDeployer.java:132)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.SchemaResolverDeployer.parse(SchemaResolverDeployer.java:118)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parseAndInit(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:256)
         at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parse(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:239)
         at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:330)
         ... 28 more
14:24:15,218 WARN  [HDScanner] Failed to process changes
org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.IncompleteDeploymentException: Summary of incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS):

*** CONTEXTS IN ERROR: Name -> Error

vfszip:/C:/dpm/servers/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp-gwt-server.ear -> java.lang.ClassCastException


         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.checkComplete(DeployersImpl.java:863)
         at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.checkComplete(MainDeployerImpl.java:665)
         at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.scan(HDScanner.java:293)
         at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.run(HDScanner.java:221)
         at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:280)
         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:135)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:65)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:142)
         at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:166)
         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

[jaikiran]

Are you packaging any xerces or xml api jar file(s) in your application? If yes, try removing them from the application packaging.