Tomcat complaining about jboss-javaee.jar @ 5.0.0CR2

[shreyasshinde]

Hello,

I have a simple servlet application that looks up EJBs deployed on JBoss 5.0.0 CR2.

When this application (along with the JBoss dependent jar files) is deployed on Tomcat (on RHEL4 Linux), Tomcat complains about the Servlet.class in jboss-javaee.jar.

INFO: validateJarFile(/grid7a/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/WebServiceHandler/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-javaee.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class

I found that somebody had bumped into this issue a little while ago but I could not get any leads.

http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-user/2008-May/120793.html

Am I missing anything? Is there a way to split the servlet impl and Java EE impl into different JARs?

Thanks,

Shreyas

JBoss 5.0.0CR2, RHEL4, Tomcat 6.0.18 & Tomcat 5.5.17

[jaikiran]

As far as i know, you can ignore that INFO message. Tomcat already ships with the servlet jar so it just prints out the message that you are duplicating the class in the javaee jar from JBoss.The real question is, do you really need the jboss-javaee.jar in your application packaging? Which classes are you relying on from this jar during runtime?

[shreyasshinde]

It appears that JBoss's context lookup eventually depends upon javax.transaction.Transaction class and it is for this class that I get a NoClassDefFound exception when the jboss-javaee.jar is not loaded by Tomcat.

As a simple experiment, I moved the servlet implementation (from jboss-javaee.jar) into some other jar and not using it in my application. That seemed to work.

The jboss-j2ee.jar file in JBoss 4.2.2.GA did not have the servlet implemenation.

Is there a formal way to separate these two implementations?

Thanks,

Shreyas

[jaikiran]

I see that there is already a JIRA for tracking this https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBEE-6