Packing WAR to EAR fails to deploy

[alex20010]

I've got a SEAM application packing to war with some seam components in it that deploys and works well.
Than I want to make a EAR with one additional EJB and this WAR. I've puted this war to ear as is except some common libraries was moved to ear/lib directory from war/web-inf/lib.

The problem is that at the deploy time it throws
|java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create Component:|
and the reason is it cannot found class that is located as earlier in war/web-inf/lib directory (ClassNotFoundException).

The seam components are all in war, so jboss-seam.jar are also in war/web-inf/lib.

The content of my ear as follows:
EAR
- lib (common libs)
- META-INF
  - application.xml
- myejb.jar (nothing about seam in it)
- myseam.war
  - .... some data
  - META-INF
    - MANIFEST.MF (without classpath property)
  - WEB-INF
    - lib (war libs)
    - classes
    - components.xml
    - faces-config.xml
    - jboss-web.xml
    - pages.xml
    - web.xml

The content of jboss-web.xml
<!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC
    "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 4.2//EN"
    "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_2.dtd">
<jboss-web> 
    <class-loading java2ClassLoadingCompliance="false">
        <loader-repository>
            seam.jboss.org:loader=seam
            <loader-repository-config>java2ParentDelegation=false</loader-repository-config>
        </loader-repository>
    </class-loading>
</jboss-web>

I have spent one day to resolve this problem but still can't.
Any help and ideas are welcome.

[alex20010]

Forgot to specify, I'm using Seam 2.2 and Jboss 5.1

[alex20010]

I also tried to generate seam test project using jboss tools in eclipse. I have my ear identical to this test project except my own classes but problem is still exists.

[lvdberg]

Hi,

I can't look inside you subdirs, but do you have the seam.properties files at the right places, so Seam can find the annotated classes?

Leo

[alex20010]

Leo van den Berg wrote on Apr 05, 2011 05:57:


Hi,

I can't look inside you subdirs, but do you have the seam.properties files at the right places, so Seam can find the annotated classes?

Leo

seam.properties file is located at war/web-inf/classes and I think that it is all ok with it cause as I mentioned earlier this war is works fine when outside from ear.

[lvdberg]

Hi,

Jboss-seam.jar should be at the root of your EAR. And others in lib under the root of the EAR.

Leo

[alex20010]

Leo,

My last try was to compare my ear with the test one was generated by jboss tools. Now jboss-seam.jar is in root of ear and other libs except ejb are in lib subdirectory of ear.

This is updated content of ear:

JBOSS\server\default\deploy\my.app.ear\
|   jboss-seam.jar
|
|---lib
|       antlr-runtime.jar
|       commons-beanutils.jar
|       drools-api.jar
|       drools-compiler.jar
|       drools-core.jar
|       jboss-el.jar
|       jboss-seam-remoting.jar
|       jbpm-jpdl.jar
|---META-INF
|       application.xml
|       jboss-app.xml
|
|---my.ejb.jar
|   |
|   |---com
|   |   |  
|   |   |___... my classes
|   |  
|   |___META-INF
|       |   ejb-jar.xml
|       |   MANIFEST.MF
|       |  
|       |___wsdl
|               OperatorServiceNew.wsdl
|  
|___my.seam.war
    |   error.xhtml
    |   home.page.xml
    |   home.xhtml
    |   index.html
    |  
    |---... a lot of my pages
    |  
    |---META-INF
    |   |   MANIFEST.MF
    |   |  
    |   |___wsdl
    |           service.wsdl
    |  
    |___WEB-INF
        |   components.xml
        |   faces-config.xml
        |   jboss-web.xml
        |   pages.xml
        |   web.xml
        |  
        |---classes
        |   |  
        |   |___... my classes
        |  
        |___lib
                activation-1.1.jar
                bcpg-jdk16-145.jar
                bcprov-jdk16-145.jar
                commons-codec-1.4.jar
                commons-dbcp-1.4.jar
                commons-digester.jar
                commons-io-2.0.jar
                commons-lang-2.4.jar
                commons-lang-2.5.jar
                commons-logging-1.1.0.jar

But the problem is still unresolved...

[lvdberg]

Hi,

An error is thrown:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create Component:

Can you tell which component is not created. A Seam-one or one of your own application ?

Leo

[lvdberg]

Hi,

and be aware that the JNDI-names of the components need an additional prefix when you use them inside an EAR:

The jndi-pattern in components.xml should be edited from:

<core:init jndi-pattern="/#{ejbName}/local" />

to

<core:init jndi-pattern="YOUR_EAR_NAME/#{ejbName}/local" />

Leo

[alex20010]

Leo van den Berg wrote on Apr 05, 2011 06:47:


Hi,

An error is thrown:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create Component:

Can you tell which component is not created. A Seam-one or one of your own application ?

Leo

It cannot create my own component annotated with @Name.
I will check about jndi names and report soon

[alex20010]

Leo van den Berg wrote on Apr 05, 2011 06:51:


Hi,

and be aware that the JNDI-names of the components need an additional prefix when you use them inside an EAR:

The jndi-pattern in components.xml should be edited from:

<core:init jndi-pattern="/#{ejbName}/local" />

to

<core:init jndi-pattern="YOUR_EAR_NAME/#{ejbName}/local" />

Leo

I didn't use jndi names in my components.xml

[lvdberg]

Hi,

you possibly have a components.properties file where this pattern is stored. The JNDI-binding is automatically and under normal circumstances you will never have to deal with JNDI-names directly, but it is really used under the hood by Seam.

Leo

[alex20010]

Leo van den Berg wrote on Apr 05, 2011 08:13:


Hi,

you possibly have a components.properties file where this pattern is stored. The JNDI-binding is automatically and under normal circumstances you will never have to deal with JNDI-names directly, but it is really used under the hood by Seam.

Leo

I've checked and there is no components.properties file anywhere inside a jboss.

[lvdberg]

Hi,

The components.properties file should be in ear and contains the definition form placeholder replacement in other parts of your configuration. If I recall well Seam-gen makes such a file for you. O

have you tried my suggestion in components.xml. That should do the trick for you.

Leo

[alex20010]

Leo,

In my generated test seam project there is a seam-ejb.jar file storing seam ejb's and there is components.properties in it.
In my case my.ejb.jar is not about seam but my war it is.
Than I put components.properties file in my war next to seam.properties file in war/web-inf/classes and write my ear name in the template. The content of file is here:

#
#Mon Apr 04 17:45:47 MSD 2011
jndiPattern=my-ear/\#{ejbName}/local
embeddedEjb=false

This is not helps ((

Leo, can you explain more about your suggestion in components.xml. I didn't understood what can I try.

Great thanks to you!

There is a content of my components.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components" xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
     xmlns:persistence="http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence" xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
     xmlns:theme="http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme" xmlns:cache="http://jboss.com/products/seam/cache"
     xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web" xmlns:international="http://jboss.com/products/seam/international"
     xmlns:transaction="http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction" xmlns:navigation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/navigation"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-2.1.xsd
                    http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence
                    http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence-2.1.xsd               
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/security
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/cache
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/cache-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/web
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/international
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/international-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/components
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction-2.1.xsd
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/navigation
                http://jboss.com/products/seam/navigation-2.1.xsd">
     <!--
          it seems that this definitions are useless in current project http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence
          http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence-2.1.xsd
     -->

     <core:init debug="true" />

     <core:manager concurrent-request-timeout="500" conversation-timeout="120000"
          conversation-id-parameter="cid" parent-conversation-id-parameter="pid" />
          
     <core:resource-loader>
          <core:bundle-names>
               <value>com.my.app.resources.ValidatorMessages</value>
               <value>com.my.app.resources.menu</value>
               <value>com.my.app.resources.common</value>
               <value>com.my.app.resources.hints</value>
               <value>com.my.app.resources.export</value>
          </core:bundle-names>
     </core:resource-loader>

     <!-- WEB -->
     <web:exception-filter />
     <web:rewrite-filter view-mapping="*.seam" />
     <web:redirect-filter url-pattern="*.seam" />
     <web:multipart-filter create-temp-files="true" max-request-size="1000000" url-pattern="*.seam" />
     <web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" override-client="true" url-pattern="*.seam" />
     <web:context-filter url-pattern="/files/*" />
     <web:identity-filter url-pattern="/*" disabled="false" />

     <!-- web:hot-deploy-filter url-pattern="*.seam" / -->

     <theme:theme-selector>
          <theme:available-themes>
               <value>default</value>
          </theme:available-themes>
     </theme:theme-selector>

     <international:locale-config default-locale="ru" supported-locales="ru" />

     <security:identity authenticate-method="#{authenticator.authenticate}" remember-me="false" />

     <security:jpa-identity-store auto-create="true" user-class=""
          class="com.my.app.security.CustomIdentityStore" />

     <security:jpa-permission-store auto-create="true"
          class="com.my.app.security.CustomPermissionStore" />

     <security:persistent-permission-resolver auto-create="true"
          class="com.my.app.security.CustomPersistentPermissionResolver" />

     <event type="org.jboss.seam.security.notLoggedIn">
          <action execute="#{redirect.captureCurrentView}" />
     </event>

     <event type="org.jboss.seam.security.postAuthenticate">
          <action execute="#{redirect.returnToCapturedView}" />
     </event>

</components>