Unable to startup nta-full.ear in JBoss 6.1.0.Final (on JDK 6)

[jochus]

Hi all,

I downloaded the nta-full.ear file from: NTA 1.0.0.Alpha1 release - JBoss Community

I'm using JBoss 6.1.0.Final - so not sure it's gonna work, because you guys target on WildFly 8. When I drop the EAR file into the $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy folder, I get the following exception (see below).

The EAR file is built with a JDK 7. Is there a way to make a build on JDK 6?

Thanks!

09:47:19,913 WARN  [ClassLoaderManager] Unexpected error during load of:io.narayana.nta.webapp.models.TransactionListBean: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: io/narayana/nta/webapp/models/TransactionListBean : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [:1.6.0_65]
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637) [:1.6.0_65]
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621) [:1.6.0_65]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.access$200(BaseClassLoader.java:52) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:650) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:609) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) [:1.6.0_65]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:608) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:585) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseDelegateLoader.loadClass(BaseDelegateLoader.java:156) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.filter.FilteredDelegateLoader.doLoadClass(FilteredDelegateLoader.java:141) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.filter.FilteredDelegateLoader.loadClass(FilteredDelegateLoader.java:132) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoadingTask$ThreadTask.run(ClassLoadingTask.java:461) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.nextTask(ClassLoaderManager.java:262) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.process(ClassLoaderManager.java:161) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:280) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:1172) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassFromDomain(BaseClassLoader.java:886) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.doLoadClass(BaseClassLoader.java:505) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClass(BaseClassLoader.java:450) [jboss-classloader.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) [:1.6.0_65]
  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [:1.6.0_65]
  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:249) [:1.6.0_65]
  at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.resolveComplexTypeInfo(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.java:434) [jboss-reflect.jar:2.2.1.SP1]
  at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.getTypeInfo(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.java:390) [jboss-reflect.jar:2.2.1.SP1]
  at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactory.getTypeInfo(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactory.java:54) [jboss-reflect.jar:2.2.1.SP1]
  at org.jboss.config.plugins.AbstractConfiguration.getTypeInfo(AbstractConfiguration.java:121) [jboss-reflect.jar:2.2.1.SP1]
  at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.AbstractKernelConfig.getTypeInfo(AbstractKernelConfig.java:95) [jboss-kernel.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.AbstractKernelConfigurator.getTypeInfo(AbstractKernelConfigurator.java:102) [jboss-kernel.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.ConfiguratorReflectProvider.getTypeInfo(ConfiguratorReflectProvider.java:47) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.CachingReflectProvider.getTypeInfo(CachingReflectProvider.java:52) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.ReflectResourceVisitor.getTypeInfo(ReflectResourceVisitor.java:60) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.ReflectResourceVisitor.getClassInfo(ReflectResourceVisitor.java:72) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.ReflectResourceVisitor.doVisit(ReflectResourceVisitor.java:107) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.visitor.ReflectResourceVisitor.visit(ReflectResourceVisitor.java:86) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.hierarchy.plugins.HierarchyIndexScanningPlugin.visit(HierarchyIndexScanningPlugin.java:91) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.spi.helpers.ScanningPluginWrapper.visit(ScanningPluginWrapper.java:112) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloading.plugins.visitor.FederatedResourceVisitor.visit(FederatedResourceVisitor.java:101) [jboss-classloading.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloading.plugins.vfs.VFSResourceVisitor.visit(VFSResourceVisitor.java:264) [jboss-classloading-vfs.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:409) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:411) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:411) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:411) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:411) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:411) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.vfs.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:397) [jboss-vfs.jar:3.0.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.classloading.plugins.vfs.VFSResourceVisitor.visit(VFSResourceVisitor.java:102) [jboss-classloading-vfs.jar:2.2.1.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.classloader.VFSDeploymentClassLoaderPolicyModule.visit(VFSDeploymentClassLoaderPolicyModule.java:181) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.plugins.DeploymentUnitScanner.scan(DeploymentUnitScanner.java:111) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.spi.helpers.UrlScanner.scan(UrlScanner.java:96) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.scanning.deployers.ScanningDeployer.deploy(ScanningDeployer.java:95) [:1.0.0.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:179) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1832) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1550) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1603) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1491) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:379) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:2044) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:1083) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.executeOrIncrementStateDirectly(AbstractController.java:1322) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1246) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1139) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:939) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:654) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.change(DeployersImpl.java:1983) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:1076) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:679) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.deployers.MainDeployerPlugin.process(MainDeployerPlugin.java:106) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileControllerContext$DelegateDeployer.process(ProfileControllerContext.java:143) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileDeployAction.deploy(ProfileDeployAction.java:151) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileDeployAction.installActionInternal(ProfileDeployAction.java:94) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.InstallsAwareAction.installAction(InstallsAwareAction.java:54) [jboss-kernel.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.InstallsAwareAction.installAction(InstallsAwareAction.java:42) [jboss-kernel.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.SimpleControllerContextAction.simpleInstallAction(SimpleControllerContextAction.java:62) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.AccessControllerContextAction.install(AccessControllerContextAction.java:71) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContextActions.install(AbstractControllerContextActions.java:51) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:379) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:2044) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:1083) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.executeOrIncrementStateDirectly(AbstractController.java:1322) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1246) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1139) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:939) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:654) [jboss-dependency.jar:2.2.0.SP2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileActivationWrapper$BasicProfileActivation.start(ProfileActivationWrapper.java:190) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileActivationWrapper.start(ProfileActivationWrapper.java:87) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileActivationService.activateProfile(ProfileActivationService.java:215) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.dependency.ProfileActivationService.activate(ProfileActivationService.java:159) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.bootstrap.AbstractProfileServiceBootstrap.activate(AbstractProfileServiceBootstrap.java:112) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.resolver.BasicResolverFactory$ProfileResolverFacade.deploy(BasicResolverFactory.java:87) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.bootstrap.AbstractProfileServiceBootstrap.start(AbstractProfileServiceBootstrap.java:91) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.bootstrap.BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.start(BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.java:132) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.bootstrap.BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.start(BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.java:56) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.bootstrap.impl.base.server.AbstractServer.startBootstraps(AbstractServer.java:827) [jboss-bootstrap-impl-base.jar:2.1.0-alpha-6]
  at org.jboss.bootstrap.impl.base.server.AbstractServer$StartServerTask.run(AbstractServer.java:417) [jboss-bootstrap-impl-base.jar:2.1.0-alpha-6]
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:695) [:1.6.0_65]

09:48:26,045 ERROR [ProfileServiceBootstrap] Failed to load profile:: org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.IncompleteDeploymentException: Summary of incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS):


DEPLOYMENTS MISSING DEPENDENCIES:
  Deployment "persistence.unit:unitName=nta-full.ear/core.jar#io.narayana.nta" is missing the following dependencies:
    Dependency "jboss.jca:name=jboss/datasources/DefaultDS,service=DataSourceBinding" (should be in state "Create", but is actually in state "** NOT FOUND Depends on 'jboss.jca:name=jboss/datasources/DefaultDS,service=DataSourceBinding' **")


DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR:
  Deployment "jboss.jca:name=jboss/datasources/DefaultDS,service=DataSourceBinding" is in error due to the following reason(s): ** NOT FOUND Depends on 'jboss.jca:name=jboss/datasources/DefaultDS,service=DataSourceBinding' **


  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.checkComplete(DeployersImpl.java:1228) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.checkComplete(MainDeployerImpl.java:905) [:2.2.2.GA]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.deployers.MainDeployerPlugin.checkComplete(MainDeployerPlugin.java:87) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.profileservice.deployment.ProfileDeployerPluginRegistry.checkAllComplete(ProfileDeployerPluginRegistry.java:107) [:0.2.2]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.bootstrap.BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.start(BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.java:135) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.bootstrap.BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.start(BasicProfileServiceBootstrap.java:56) [:6.1.0.Final]
  at org.jboss.bootstrap.impl.base.server.AbstractServer.startBootstraps(AbstractServer.java:827) [jboss-bootstrap-impl-base.jar:2.1.0-alpha-6]
  at org.jboss.bootstrap.impl.base.server.AbstractServer$StartServerTask.run(AbstractServer.java:417) [jboss-bootstrap-impl-base.jar:2.1.0-alpha-6]
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:695) [:1.6.0_65]

[paul.robinson]

Jochen,

Yes, NTA should be buildable on JDK 6. Just follow the instructions on here for building from source: transaction-analyser/README.md at master · jbosstm/transaction-analyser · GitHub.

However, I'm not sure how much success you are going to have with JBoss 6. Two issues that spring to mind are:

1) There will be some logging missing that is only in EAP 6.2 and WildFly 8 (onwards). NTA parses the log file to interpret what happened with the transactions. Therefore, you might get misleading or missing information.

2) The NTA console has a "start" button. This modifies the logging level for com.arjuna, setting it to TRACE. It also sets the logging file appender to TRACE too. I don't think this will work in JBoss 6. So you would have to update the logging configuration yourself.

Please do give it a try though. We can help you out as we are keen to understand what does and doesn't work with older versions of JBoss. We might be able to fix it in a future NTA release, but we will always be at the mercy of what logging is available, meaning some things won't be fixable.

Paul.

[jochus]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply. I did a git clone and tried to build the EAR file from sources. First, I changed the following lines in the root pom.xml

        <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>

But when I try to build, I get the following exception:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.1:compile (default-compile) on project core: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
[ERROR] /private/tmp/transaction-analyser/core/src/main/java/io/narayana/nta/logparsing/common/LogParser.java:[41,58] illegal start of type

That's because of the following line:

    private final List<Handler> handlers = new LinkedList<>();

The line above is JDK 7 related code.

So I guess it stops here? Nevertheless, your product looks very promising and I hope we can use it later when our product is running on WildFly 8!

[tomjenkinson]

I had a quick go with this, replacing the diamond operator is quite easy. Then replacing the multi-catch statements is quite easy too. But then we get to:

{code}

/home/tom/projects/jbosstm/transaction-profiler/core/src/main/java/io/narayana/nta/persistence/HandlerService.java:[188,16] error: strings in switch are not supported in -source 1.6

{code}

This should be possible to change I suspect but before proceeding with that I think we need to decide if JDK6 is something that NTA is going to support.

[paul.robinson]

Tom,

Thanks for trying this out. I was under the impression that you could set the source version to 1.7 and the target version to 1.6 and just have it work. However, this doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't think NTA needs any JDK 1.7 specific features, so we could remove them. However, it would be good to understand how well NTA works in older versions of JBoss first, so that we can see if it's worth including this restriction.

If Jochen is interested we could create a branch, for now, of NTA and modify the code to work on JDK 1.6. Jochen, is this something you would like to contribute? Otherwise, we (in the transactions team) could find some time to try this out.

Then I suggest we try the NTA demo out on JBoss 6.1.0.Final and compare the output, with WildFly 8, to see what is missing. I suspect it will be the enlisted resources that don't appear as we had to add extra logging in EAP 6.2.0 and WildFly 8 to capture this information.

Paul.

[jochus]

Hi Paul,

Sure, if you create a branch I'm willing to help you guys providing feedback on JBoss AS 6.1.0.Final.

However, I would understand if you would say that we need to switch to JDK 7. At a certain point, we will upgrade our application server. Although I think it won't be for the near future ...

Kind regards,

Jochen