JBoss Server hangs on deploy

[jamesbury]

I have a web application that deploys and runs fine in Jboss 4.2.1 but will not start in Jboss 5.1.0 GA. The application hangs on this line of code in apache commons digester 2.0:

RuleSet ruleSet = new FromXmlRuleSet(rulesXml); in DigesterLoader class. The rules xml is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<digester-rules>
    <pattern value="application">
        <object-create-rule 
         classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ApplicationXML"/>
       
        <!-- top-level application attributes -->
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="author"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="copyright"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="id"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="version"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="context-root"
         propertyname="contextRoot"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="servlet-path"
         propertyname="servletPath"/>
        <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="description"/>
        <pattern value="label">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.LabelXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <call-method-rule methodname="setContent" paramcount="0"/>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setLabel"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- templates -->
        <pattern value="templates/template">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.TemplateXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <pattern value="assign">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.TemplateAssignmentXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="addAssignment"/>
            </pattern>
            <set-next-rule methodname="addTemplate"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- pluglets -->
        <pattern value="pluglets/pluglet">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.PlugletXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <set-next-rule methodname="addPluglet"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- error handling -->
        <pattern value="error">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ErrorXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <pattern value="error-view">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ErrorViewXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="setErrorView"/>
            </pattern>
            <pattern value="error-template">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ErrorTemplateXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="setErrorTemplate"/>
            </pattern>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setError"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- security -->
        <pattern value="security">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.SecurityXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setSecurity"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- components -->
        <pattern value="components/component">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ComponentXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <set-next-rule methodname="addComponent"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- interceptors -->
        <pattern value="interceptors">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.InterceptorCollectionXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <pattern value="interceptor">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.InterceptorXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="addInterceptor"/>
            </pattern>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setInterceptorCollection"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- resource manager -->
        <pattern value="resource-manager">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ResourceManagerXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <pattern value="factory">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ResourceFactoryXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <pattern value="resource">
                    <object-create-rule
                     classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.ResourceXML"/>
                    <set-properties-rule/>
                    <pattern value="param">
                        <object-create-rule 
                         classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.ParamXML"/>
                        <set-properties-rule/>
                        <set-next-rule methodname="addParam"/>
                    </pattern>
                    <set-next-rule methodname="addResource"/>
                </pattern>
                <set-next-rule methodname="addResourceFactory"/>
            </pattern>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setResourceManager"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- event handling -->
        <pattern value="event">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.EventXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="categoryPrefix"/>
            <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="errorType"/>
            <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="eventDataSource"/>
            <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="attachmentStorename"/>
            <pattern value="sequence">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.EventSequenceXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="setEventSequence"/>
            </pattern>
            <pattern value="eventSinks">
                <object-create-rule 
                 classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.application.EventSinkCollectionXML"/>
                <set-properties-rule/>
                <set-next-rule methodname="setEventSinkCollection"/>
            </pattern>
            <set-next-rule methodname="setEvent"/>
        </pattern>

        <!-- application attributes -->
        <pattern value="application-attributes/attribute">
            <object-create-rule 
             classname="com.thotwave.pluglet.xml.ScopedAttributeXML"/>
            <set-properties-rule/>
            <set-next-rule methodname="addApplicationAttribute"/>
        </pattern>

    </pattern>

    <!--
     ********** Standard Code Rules **********
     -->

    <pattern value="*/code">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.CodeElement"/>
        <set-properties-rule/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addCode"/>
    </pattern>

    <pattern value="*/property">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.PropertyElement"/>
        <set-properties-rule/>
        <call-method-rule methodname="setText" paramcount="0"/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addProperty"/>
    </pattern>

    <pattern value="*/property/list">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.ListElement"/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addValue"/>
    </pattern>

    <pattern value="*/property/map">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.MapElement"/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addValue"/>
    </pattern>

    <pattern value="*/map/key">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.AnonymousValue"/>
        <call-method-rule methodname="setText" paramcount="0"/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addValue"/>
    </pattern>

    <!-- appears in <list> and <map>
      -->
    <pattern value="*/value">
        <object-create-rule
            classname="com.thotwave.bean.code.AnonymousValue"/>
        <call-method-rule methodname="setText" paramcount="0"/>
        <set-next-rule methodname="addValue"/>
    </pattern>
</digester-rules>
      

In Jboss 5, when it hits this line it just sits (no logging or anything) until an out of memory error is thrown... Any ideas?

[jamesbury]

Newbie problem, I had to move to the latest jaxb jar and that fixed this issue. The digester was throwing a sax exception that was just being swallowed by the default impl... duh.