Spring 2.5 Project Deployment to JBoss 5

[markwen97]

Hi Everyone,

I have problem with deploying my Richfaces + Spring + Hibernate project to JBoss AS 5.0. The project has the following jar files in the web-inf/lib folder:

acegi-jsf-1.1.3.jar
activation-1.1.jar
antlr-2.7.6.jar
aopalliance-1.0.jar
asm-1.5.3.jar
asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar
aspectjrt-1.6.0.jar
aspectjweaver-1.6.0.jar
avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar
backport-util-concurrent-3.1.jar
batik-all-1.7.jar
bsh-2.0b4.jar
cglib-2.1_3.jar
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-codec-1.3.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar
commons-digester-1.8.1.jar
commons-discovery-0.4.jar
commons-el-1.0.jar
commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-httpclient-3.0.jar
commons-io-1.3.1.jar
commons-lang-2.3.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
commons-pool-1.2.jar
commons-validator-1.3.0.jar
corejsf-validator-1.0.jar
darkX-3.3.0.GA.jar
displaytag-1.1.1.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
dwr-2.0.1.jar
ehcache-1.4.1.jar
ejb3-persistence-1.0.1.GA.jar
fop.jar
freemarker-2.3.8.jar
glassX-3.3.0.GA.jar
hamcrest-core-1.1.jar
hamcrest-library-1.1.jar
hibernate-3.2.6.ga.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.3.1.GA.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-3.0.0.ga.jar
hibernate-core-3.3.0.CR1.jar
hibernate-tools-3.2.0.ga.jar
hibernate-validator-3.1.0.CR1.jar
iText-2.1.0.jar
jasperreports-3.1.4.jar
jcommon-1.0.0.jar
jfreechart-1.0.12.jar
jhighlight-1.0.jar
jmock-2.4.0.jar
jmock-junit4-2.4.0.jar
jsf-api-1.2_12.jar
jsf-facelets-1.1.15.B1.jar
jsf-impl-1.2_12.jar
jsr107cache-1.0.jar
jstl-1.2.jar
jta-1.1.jar
jtidy-r8-20060801.jar
junit-4.4.jar
junit-dep-4.4.jar
jxl-2.6.jar
laguna-3.3.0.GA.jar
mail-1.4.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.7-bin.jar
nekohtml-0.9.5.jar
oro-2.0.8.jar
oscache-2.3.jar
persistence-api-1.0.jar
poi-3.2.jar
richfaces-api-3.3.0.GA.jar
richfaces-impl-3.3.0.GA.jar
richfaces-ui-3.3.0.GA.jar
serializer-2.7.0.jar
shale-test-1.0.4.jar
slf4j-api-1.4.2.jar
slf4j-simple-1.4.2.jar
spring-2.5.6.jar
spring-aop-2.5.6.jar
spring-aspects-2.5.6.jar
spring-beans-2.5.6.jar
spring-context-2.5.6.jar
spring-context-support-2.5.6.jar
spring-core-2.5.6.jar
spring-dao-2.0.jar
spring-jdbc-2.5.6.jar
spring-jpa-2.0.jar
spring-orm-2.5.6.jar
spring-security-acl-2.0.4.jar
spring-security-core-2.0.4.jar
spring-security-core-tiger-2.0.4.jar
spring-security-taglibs-2.0.4.jar
spring-test.jar
spring-tx-2.5.6.jar
spring-web-2.5.6.jar
spring-webmvc-2.5.6.jar
standard.jar
Tidy.jar
tomahawk12-1.1.9.jar
velocity-1.4.jar
velocity-dep-1.4.jar
xmlgraphics-commons-1.3.1.jar

This project works perfectly under Tomcat 6.0.

To deploy it under JBoss AS 5, I've already removed some jar files (log4j, xml-apis*.jar, xerces*.jar, xalan*.jar) from the this folder, as suggested by some posts on the internet. However, I still couldn't make it, and the root error message is:

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving method "javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.setEntityResolver(Lorg/xml/sax/EntityResolver;)V" the class loader (instance of
org/jboss/classloader/spi/base/BaseClassLoader) of the current class, org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultDocumentLoader, and the class loader (instance of ) for resolved class,
javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder, have different Class objects for the type org/xml/sax/EntityResolver used in the signature
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.createDocumentBuilder(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:132)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:74)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396)
... 71 more

I've also tried isolated class-loading, which didn't work.

Anyone has any idea of how to solve this kind of issue?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

[vickyk]

Was this application working in older version of Jboss?
Also let us know if the application is packaged as WAR or EAR?
You should not have the jsf specific jars inside the WAR, if you wanted it then you should have followed this
http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/RemoveJSF

[markwen97]

Thanks.

It might be helpful to solve part of the problem because Richfaces did fail to initialize the state factory. But it more like there is a conflict between the spring context loader and the jboss class loader. Not sure how to get rid of it properly.

Anyone could help?

[vickyk]

"markwen97" wrote:

But it more like there is a conflict between the spring context loader and the jboss class loader. Not sure how to get rid of it properly.

I would recommend you to isolate the issue by making the incremental changes in your application, you could build a sample application from scratch and keep adding the libraries one by one.
This activity will help us to identify the jar who inclusion in the application is resulting in failure. Having a simpler application simulating the issue would be helpful to sort out the issue.

[markwen97]

Hi vickyk,

I understand your point. It sounds quite a lot of work to pinpoint the exact jar file, which is more practical when doing a project from scratch, not after it's done.

I will post the feedback after my experiment.

Thanks.

Mark