Please help: Error in jboss.xml for Bean found in jboss.xml but not in ejb-jar.xml

[nghiemle]

I need help configuring the jboss.xml file. According to JBoss documentation at http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r4/html/ch5.chapter.html, if we want to configure an entity EJB bean using  “Instance Per Transaciton Policy”, we need to do the following:

<jboss>

<enterprise-beans>

<entity>

<ejb-name>MyCMP2Bean</ejb-name>

<jndi-name>MyCMP2</jndi-name>

<configuration-name>

Instance Per Transaction CMP 2.x EntityBean

</configuration-name>

</entity>

<entity>

<ejb-name>MyBMPBean</ejb-name>

<jndi-name>MyBMP</jndi-name>

<configuration-name>

Instance Per Transaction BMP EntityBean

</configuration-name>

</entity>

</enterprise-beans>

</jboss>

However, I tried this in our JBoss server, but got the error below.

2012-06-20 17:54:32,962 -0700 level=ERROR class=org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader [Thread: main] org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.load(XmlFileLoader.java:205) failed to load jboss.xml.  There could be a syntax error.

• org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error in jboss.xml for Bean com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome: found in jboss.xml but not in ejb-jar.xml

        at org.jboss.metadata.ApplicationMetaData.importJbossXml(ApplicationMetaData.java:956)

        at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.load(XmlFileLoader.java:200)

        at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.create(EJBDeployer.java:541)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)

        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)

        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)

        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)

        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)

        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)

  at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.DynamicInterceptor.invoke(DynamicInterceptor.java:97)

My ejb-jar.xml file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ejb-jar xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" version="2.2"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/ejb-jar_2_2.xsd">

      <display-name>SonoraBeans</display-name>

      <enterprise-beans>

	<entity>
	<ejb-name>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome</ejb-name>
	<home>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome</home>
	<remote>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJB</remote>
	<local-home>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBLocalHome</local-home>
	<local>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBLocal</local>
	<ejb-class>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBBean</ejb-class>
	<persistence-type>Bean</persistence-type>
	<prim-key-class>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBPK</prim-key-class>
	<reentrant>false</reentrant>
	</entity>

   </enterprise-beans>

...............

</ejb-jar>

And the Jboss.xml file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 4.2//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_4_2.dtd">

<jboss>

  <security-domain>java:/jaas/Sonora</security-domain>

  <enterprise-beans>

	<entity>
	<ejb-name>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome</ejb-name>
	<jndi-name>com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome</jndi-name>
	<configuration-name>Instance Per Transaction CMP 2.x EntityBean</configuration-name>
	</entity>

  </enterprise-beans>

  <container-configurations>

   <container-configuration>

    <container-name>Standard BMP EntityBean</container-name>

     <commit-option>C</commit-option>

    </container-configuration>

  </container-configurations>

</jboss>

Any help is greatly appreciated. I have searched on Google for almost a day and did not find the answer to this problem.

Andy

[wdfink]

I would check whether all configured classes are in you archive. Maybe it helps if you deploy without jboss.xml.

Sometimes the error messages is confusing.

Check your XML with a XML editor to be sure that it is (formal) correct. From the first look to your xml I see no error.

I use simpler ejb-names but I think this is not the issue.

BTW it will be normally not a good idea to have remote interfaces for entities

[jaikiran]

Are you sure the ejb-jar.xml is being picked up? Post the output of

jar -tf yourejbjar.jar

Which exact version of JBoss AS is this?

[nghiemle]

This is running on top of JBoss 4.2.3 verion.

When I remove the jboss.xml file, the EJBs got deployed successfully without and issue. I can see these information in the log, which indicates a successful deployment.

Therefore, we can conclude the there are no problem with the ejb-jar.xml file nor its syntax.

However, removing jboss.xml file defeats the purpose the I am trying to accomplish. That is to configure the entity EJB beans using the "Instance Per Transaciton Policy".

These EJBs are not owned by our company, but they are part of a third party vendor package, and they are packaged by that vendor. However, the vendor is not able to help resolve our issue when we have frequent transactions timeout.

From my own investigation, I found that these entity EJB beans may have contention / deadlock issue under load. So I follow JBoss documentation at http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r4/html/ch5.chapter.html to congure them using the "Instance Per Transaction Policy" to see if the deadlock issue goes away. If it does, I can go back to the vendor to ask them fix it.

But when I follow the documetation to configure it in the jboss.xml file, Jboss fails to deploy these EJBs.

2012-06-22 05:47:34,754 -0700 level=INFO  class=org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule              Deploying com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome

.......

2012-06-22 05:47:35,980 -0700 level=INFO  class=org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.BaseLocalProxyFactory              Bound EJB LocalHome 'com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome' to jndi 'local/com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome@10251312'
2012-06-22 05:47:35,985 -0700 level=INFO  class=org.jboss.proxy.ejb.ProxyFactory              Bound EJB Home 'com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome' to jndi 'com.eistream.sonora.users.UsersEntityEJBHome'
2012-06-22 05:47:35,990 -0700 level=INFO  class=org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.BaseLocalProxyFactory              Bound EJB LocalHome 'com.eistream.sonora.workflow.rules.RulesEntityEJBHome' to jndi 'local/com.eistream.sonora.workflow.rules.RulesEntityEJBHome@12107172'

[chandrarsa]

I am requesting same question again... Is it right post or not?. If it is apology for that.

Here I am attaching source code.Its simple session bean even though I am unable deploy it due to this exception.

[sfcoy]

Your ejb-name values are different.

• ejb-jar.xml:  <ejb-name>EmpolyeeInfo</ejb-name>
• jboss.xml:   <ejb-name>EmpolyeeInfoHome</ejb-name>

[chandrarsa]

Thank you very much