Jboss 5.1 java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.JavaModuleMetaData cannot be cast to org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.WebModuleMetaData

[prakashmvc]

I have deployed the ear file , which inturn contains a war file. This was successfully deploying and running in jboss 4.2.3, After migrating the server to 5.1, following exception has thrown during the deployment.

org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error during deploy: vfszip:/D:/apps/jboss-5.1.0/server/default/deploy/inventory.ear/inventory-invoker.war/
    at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
    at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:177)
    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:1631)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
    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:702)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.scan(HDScanner.java:362)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.run(HDScanner.java:255)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:181)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:205)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.JavaModuleMetaData cannot be cast to org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.WebModuleMetaData
    at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployment.metadata.JSEArchiveMetaDataAdapter.buildMetaData(JSEArchiveMetaDataAdapter.java:76)
    at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployment.metadata.ContainerMetaDataAdapter.buildContainerMetaData(ContainerMetaDataAdapter.java:76)
    at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployment.metadata.ContainerMetaDataDeploymentAspect.create(ContainerMetaDataDeploymentAspect.java:50)
    at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:115)
    at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:76)
    at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.AbstractWebServiceDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractWebServiceDeployer.java:60)
    at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
    at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
    ... 25 more

War file contains following contents,

META-INF

        |_

           MANIFEST.MF

WEB-INF

        |_

            classes

            web.xml

It would be helpful, if anyone suggest on fixing this issue?

Regards,

Prakash

[jaikiran]

What's the content of MANIFEST.MF file?

[prakashmvc]

MANIFEST.MF file looks as below,

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.1
Created-By: 14.3-b01 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Built-By: prakasha.m
Project-Version: 2.0.0-tui
Class-Path: lib/mands-common-persistent-1.2.0.jar lib/mands-j2ee-suppo
rt-2.0.0.jar lib/mands-javadoc-2.0.0.jar lib/mands-jboss-support-2.0.
0.jar lib/mands-jmx-support-2.0.0.jar lib/mands-unit-test-support-2.0
.0.jar lib/mands-utilities-1.1.0.jar libext/commons-lang-2.0.jar

Note: jars which are prefixed with mands are project related jars.

[jaikiran]

Remove the Classpath attribute from the MANIFEST.MF completely. There are some known issues around MANIFEST.MF classpath handling.

By default, all jars present in .war/WEB-INF/lib will be available in the classpath of the .war. So if you add the jars to that lib folder, you don't have to set the classpath in the MANIFEST.MF

[prakashmvc]

As you suggested, Removed the Classpath attribute from the MANIFEST.MF completely. I created a folder lib (.war/WEB-INF/lib) and placed all the jars. However still I am getting the same exception.

[flesner]

did you ever resolve this, i have a similar problem with a SAR inside my EAR file:

my.ear/

     my.sar/

          META-INF/jboss-service.xml

          service.jar

and it throws:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.metadata.ear.jboss.ServiceModuleMetaData cannot be cast to org.jboss.metadata.ear.spec.WebModuleMetaData
        at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployer.deploy(AbstractWarDeployer.java:327)
        at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployer.deploy(AbstractWarDeployer.java:97)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.java:62)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
        ... 30 more