classpath in war, jboss5

[abhinav.ind]

i hav a sar in deploy.last folder. there is a war in that sar. i hav to access a xsl file kept in web-inf/classes/com/portal/layout/tabColumn/file.xsl
jboss is not able to find it.
if i keep this xsl file in a jar n put that jar in default/lib folder then its able to pick that file.

<bean name="WarClassLoaderDeployer" class="org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.WarClassLoaderDeployer">
 <property name="relativeOrder">-1</property>

 <property name="includeWebInfInClasspath">true</property>
 <property name="filteredPackages">javax.servlet,org.apache.commons.logging</property>

 </bean>

 <!-- Get the flag indicating if the normal Java2 parent first class
 loading model should be used over the servlet 2.3 web container first
 model.
 -->
 <property name="java2ClassLoadingCompliance">true</property>
 <!-- A flag indicating if the JBoss Loader should be used. This loader
 uses a unified class loader as the class loader rather than the tomcat
 specific class loader.
 The default is false to ensure that wars have isolated class loading
 for duplicate jars and jsp files.
 -->
 <property name="useJBossWebLoader">true</property>
 <!-- The list of package prefixes that should not be loaded without
 delegating to the parent class loader before trying the web app
 class loader. The packages listed here are those tha are used by
 the web container implementation and cannot be overriden. The format
 is a comma separated list of the package names. There cannot be any
 whitespace between the package prefixes.
 This setting only applies when UseJBossWebLoader=false.
 -->
 <property name="filteredPackages">javax.servlet,org.apache.commons.logging</property>

i want jboss to pick it from my war only. is there any configuration required to do it?

[jaikiran]

"abhinav.ind" wrote:
there is a war in that sar.

That's the first time i am hearing a war being packaged in a sar. Any specific reason you are doing that?

[abhinav.ind]

well it works with jboss4.0.2. also we have a common build for multiple projects hence every project ends up in a sar.
watever in temp folder i get to see the temporary war folder so it means jboss is ablt to pick it form sar.

[abhinav.ind]

well u can check http-invoker.sar in deploy folder there is invoker.war inside it. wat do u say abt this :)

[jaikiran]

"abhinav.ind" wrote:
well u can check http-invoker.sar in deploy folder there is invoker.war inside it. wat do u say abt this :)

I would say, i did not notice that earlier ;-)

[abhinav.ind]

so can u help me with my problem. y doesnt jboss5 recognises classpath from WEB-INF/classes

[jaikiran]

i hav to access a xsl file kept in web-inf/classes/com/portal/layout/tabColumn/file.xsl
jboss is not able to find it.

I believe it's your code which is trying to find it and not JBoss. Please post that relevant piece of code where you are trying to access this.

[abhinav.ind]

code for accessing both files is same. its just that classLoader finds the one kept in jar but fails to find the one kept in war packaged in sar.

public static URL getResourceAsURL(Class requestingClass, String resource) throws ResourceMissingException {
 URL resourceURL = requestingClass.getResource(resource);

 if (resourceURL == null) {
 throw new ResourceMissingException(resource,"Resource not found");

 }
 return resourceURL;
 }

First case: File in jar
input to above function: class org.jasig.portal.UserInstance, /org/jasig/portal/layout/AL_TabColumn/AL_TabColumn.xsl
output: vfszip:/D:/jboss5/server/default/deploy/deploy.last/12uPortal.sar/uPortal.jar/org/jasig/portal/layout/AL_TabColumn/AL_TabColumn.xsl

Second case: File in war
input to above function: class org.jasig.portal.UserInstance, /com/nubridges/portal/layout/AL_TabColumn/nuBridges/nuBridges-menu.xsl
output: /com/nubridges/portal/layout/AL_TabColumn/nuBridges/nuBridges-menu.xsl

now if i package file in second case in to a jar then it works. is it related to class loading? if yes then can u give me a link where i can study new class loading fundamentals implemented in jboss5. installation guide dint help me.
earlier there was unified class loader for each webapp which were kept in one repository. now things seem different. though it says that UCL is replaced by BaseClassLoader but my webapp seems to be laoded by NoAnnotationURLClassLoader.

thanks

[alesj]

"abhinav.ind" wrote:
but my webapp seems to be laoded by NoAnnotationURLClassLoader.

I really doubt that's true.

[abhinav.ind]

ok. can u suggest me where i can find detail content of class loading, how to configure it and other documentation. there must be something regarding this.

[alesj]

http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13268

[abhinav.ind]

thanks alesj :)