Exception while deploying web application in JBoss 5.1 AS

[nnanda]

Hi All,

I am keeping on getting below exception while running a web application in JBoss 5.1 AS.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /views/loginPage.jsp(2,0) Unable to read TLD "META-INF/c.tld" from JAR file "vfsfile:/Users/myuser/server_instances/instance_1/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/jstl.jar": java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:88)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.processIncludeDirective(Parser.java:343)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseIncludeDirective(Parser.java:376)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:483)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1438)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:137)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:255)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:103)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:171)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:333)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:313)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:300)
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:585)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:312)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:322)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:249)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    com.apple.ist.gsx.util.WebLayerBAMFilter.doFilter(WebLayerBAMFilter.java:130)
    org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:88)
    org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
    org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)

Can anyone suggest some help on this? We are clueless on this.

Thanks,

Niranjan

[sfcoy]

The jboss-web.sar module in your "deploy" directory is supposed to contain jstl.jar.

It appears that yours is missing for some reason.

[nnanda]

Hi Stephen,

Yes. jstl.jar is present in jbossweb.sar folder.

Do you see any other reason?

Thanks,

Niranjan

[sfcoy]

Can you execute:

     jar tf jstl.jar

and post the results?

It should contain a META-INF/c.tld file.

[nnanda]

Hi Stephen,

Yes it does contain c.tld. In fact it contains below files

c-1_0-rt.tld

c-1_0.tld

c.tld

fmt-1_0-rt.tld

fmt-1_0.tld

fmt.tld

fn.tld

LICENSE.txt

MANIFEST.MF

permittedTaglibs.tld

scriptfree.tld

sql-1_0-rt.tld

sql-1_0.tld

sql.tld

x-1_0-rt.tld

x-1_0.tld

x.tld

The exception is too confusing. Could you please suggest something?

Thanks,

Niranjan

[sfcoy]

Make a copy of the jstl.jar in another directory and try to unpack it:

     jar xf jstl.jar

Have a look at the c.tld file and see if it is intact.

On a different tack, I assume that you are running the server as user "myuser"? If not, it could be a permissions problem.

[nnanda]

Hi Stephen,

I extracted that jar in a different folder. And got those TLD files.

That file has all the permission because I run as root. So, I don't think there could be permission issues.

One of my friend just told me this could happen if /tmp is full. Could that be the reason?

Thanks,

Niranjan

[sfcoy]

NIranjan Nanda wrote:

...

One of my friend just told me this could happen if /tmp is full. Could that be the reason?

..

That seems unlikely.

Do you have plenty of disk space?

Are you using Sun/Oracle Java?

Another thing to try is deleting:

• server/default/data
• server/default/work
• server/default/tmp

and see if that restores operation.

[nnanda]

Hi Stephen,

I have plenty of disk space (around 100GB); so I do not think space issue is a concern.

I am using Sun Hotspot VM with -Xmx1024m

I also tried deleting those folders. No result

[sfcoy]

Can you please provide full environmental details?

Operating System & version

JDK & version

You *are* using a JDK and not a JRE I presume?

[nnanda]

Hi Stephen,

I just reached office, so apologies for late reply.

My env looks like:

JDK 1.6.0_33 (Sun Hotspot JVM) [You are correct, I am using JDK, not JRE]

JBoss 5.1 AS

OS: Mac OSX (but this is also happening on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, Kernel version: 2.6.18)

Please let me know if more information is needed.

Thanks,

NN

[sfcoy]

Do you have a copy of jstl.jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory by any chance?

If so, remove it.

[nnanda]

No Stephen, I do not put JSTL jar in WEB-INF/lib because I want this to be loaded from server.

[sfcoy]

What version of Spring Framework are you using?

All 2.5 releases are incompatible with JBoss 5.0 and newer. I think it was fixed around 3.0.3 or thereabouts as far as I can recall

[nnanda]

I am using Spring 3.0.3