EAR deployment problem

[hehe64310]

Hi,

I have created a small sample EAR project which contains an EJB jar and a web client (war) for the EJB.

On deployment I get this error:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.EjbModuleMetaData cannot be cast to org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.WebModuleMetaData

This is the layout of the ear file:

EAR

     EJB3Test.jar

     EJB_Test_Client.war

     META-INF

          application.xml

          MANIFEST.MF

The file itself is attached.

What could be the caus of the error?

Cheers,

Matt

[jaikiran]

The .war file contains a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF with a Class-Path attribute:

Class-Path: EJB3Test.jar

We have some known issues with Class-Path attributes in MANIFEST.MF. Remove that entry from the MANIFEST.MF

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

you have a JavaEE5 app I assume? I ask because your "EJB3Test.jar" contains a web.xml AND Entity beans. But the feature of bundling EJBs in a WAR file is a feature of JavaEE6.

So, either split EJB3Test.jar to an EJB jar and a WAR file, or (if you didn't intend to build a web module) clean it up: remove the "web.xml" folder, and your application.xml points to a web module.

Best regards

Wolfgang

[jaikiran]

Wolfgang Knauf wrote:

I ask because your "EJB3Test.jar" contains a web.xml AND Entity beans.

Ah, that's a good point! I did not notice that the .jar was containing web.xml and .war related contents.

[hehe64310]

Thank you very much for pointing me at this. It was a stupid mistake: I have simple overlooked the WEB-INF folder containing the web.xml.

Now that I have removed that folder everything works as expected.

Thank you!