NoSuchMethodError while deploying a CMP Entity Bean in JBoss

[dev2gosoft]

Hi all,
I am getting this exception when a CMP Entity Bean is being deployed in JBoss 3.2.4. Please note that I have a whole bunch of stateless Session Beans deployed successfully....it is happening with CMP Entity bean only

RuntimeErrorException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory.createNewArray(Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;S)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Instruction;


I have referred to forum topic : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3838974#3838974 and still could not figure out a fix even though they appear to be very similar problems.


Environment:
Windows XP SP2 (RC2)
JDK: 1.4.2_04
Eclipse: 2.1.3


Here is my AccountBean Code:

package com.company.ht.data.account;

import javax.ejb.CreateException;
import javax.ejb.EntityBean;


/**
 *
 * @ejb.bean
 * name="Account"
 * local-jndi-name="AccountHomeLocal"
 * type="CMP"
 * cmp-version="2.x"
 * primkey-field="loginID"
 * view-type="local"
 *
 * @ejb.value-object
 *
 * @ejb.finder query="query string ..."
 * signature="com.togosoft.ht.data.account.Account findAccountByActivationID(java.lang.String aID)"
 *
 *
 * @ejb.transaction type="Required"
 *
 * @jboss.persistence datasource="java:/HealthTheaterDS"
 * datasource-mapping="MS SQLSERVER2000"
 * table-name="htCustomerAccount_tb"
 *
 *
 */
public abstract class AccountBean implements EntityBean {

 /**
 * @ejb.interface-method
 * @ejb.persistence column-name="LoginID"
 * @ejb.pk-field
 * @return
 */
 public abstract String getLoginID();
 public abstract void setLoginID(String id);


 /**
 * @ejb.create-method
 *
 * @param account
 * @return
 * @throws CreateException
 */
 public String ejbCreate(AccountDTO account)throws CreateException{
 this.setLoginID(account.getLoginID());
 //TODO: implement ejbCreate further...
 return null;

 }

 /**
 * @return
 * @throws CreateException
 */
 public void ejbPostCreate(AccountDTO account)throws CreateException{
 }



 /**
 * @ejb.interface-method
 */
 public abstract AccountValue getAccountValue();

}

Am I missing something....???

The full exception is as follows:

10:03:24,828 WARN [ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss.j2ee:jndiName=AccountHomeLocal,service=EJB
RuntimeErrorException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory.createNewArray(Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;S)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Instruction;
Cause: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory.createNewArray(Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;S)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Instruction;
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.handleInvocationExceptions(ReflectedDispatcher.java:99)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:64)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:837)
 at $Proxy17.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:367)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
 at $Proxy51.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule.startService(EjbModule.java:367)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:271)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:221)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:837)
 at $Proxy17.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:367)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
 at $Proxy14.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.start(EJBDeployer.java:570)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:836)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:645)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:608)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor18.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
 at $Proxy7.deploy(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:304)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:478)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:271)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:221)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:837)
 at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:367)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
 at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:251)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:836)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:645)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:608)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:592)
 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:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:61)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:53)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:185)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:473)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
 at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:407)
 at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:311)
 at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:144)
 at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:389)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory.createNewArray(Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;S)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Instruction;
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.ProxyImplementationFactory.createProxyMethod(ProxyImplementationFactory.java:319)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.ProxyCompiler.getCode(ProxyCompiler.java:167)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.Runtime.makeProxyType(Runtime.java:69)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.ProxyCompiler.<init>(ProxyCompiler.java:76)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.Proxies$Impl.newTarget(Proxies.java:603)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.Proxies.newTarget(Proxies.java:78)
 at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.Proxy.newProxyInstance(Proxy.java:49)
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCCreateBeanClassInstanceCommand.<init>(JDBCCreateBeanClassInstanceCommand.java:56)
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCCommandFactory.createCreateBeanClassInstanceCommand(JDBCCommandFactory.java:124)
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.startStoreManager(JDBCStoreManager.java:471)
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:396)
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:147)
 at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.startService(EntityContainer.java:337)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:271)
 at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:221)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.ReflectedDispatcher.dispatch(ReflectedDispatcher.java:60)
 ... 111 more

Is it do with multiple confilicting versions of xalan.jar or bcel.jar....or...???

any help is deeply appreciated

[pericodelgado]

Hi,

I have a similar error in another AppServer (SunOne). I think that it's a problem with ejb-jar.xml, there are something that is not deploying ejb correctly.

Do you have local interfaces or remote interfaces?

Regards

[dev2gosoft]

My deployment descriptors and interfaces are generated by XDoclet (tags specified in the listed AccountBean.java)

/*AccountLocalHome.java listing
 * Generated by XDoclet - Do not edit!
 */
package com.company.ht.data.account;

/**
 * Local home interface for Account.
 *
 */
public interface AccountLocalHome
 extends javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome
{
 public static final String COMP_NAME="java:comp/env/ejb/AccountLocal";
 public static final String JNDI_NAME="AccountHomeLocal";

 public com.togosoft.ht.data.account.AccountLocal create(com.togosoft.ht.data.account.AccountDTO account)
 throws javax.ejb.CreateException;

 public com.togosoft.ht.data.account.AccountLocal findAccountByActivationID(java.lang.String aID)
 throws javax.ejb.FinderException;

 public com.togosoft.ht.data.account.AccountLocal findByPrimaryKey(java.lang.String pk)
 throws javax.ejb.FinderException;

}

/* AccountLocal.java listing
 * Generated by XDoclet - Do not edit!
 */
package com.togosoft.ht.data.account;

/**
 * Local interface for Account.
 */
public interface AccountLocal
 extends javax.ejb.EJBLocalObject
{

 public java.lang.String getLoginID( ) ;

 public com.togosoft.ht.data.account.AccountValue getAccountValue( ) ;

}

Deployment descriptor portion for entitybean ejb-jar.xml listing

 <entity >
 <description><![CDATA[]]></description>

 <ejb-name>Account</ejb-name>

 <local-home>com.company.ht.data.account.AccountLocalHome</local-home>
 <local>com.company.ht.data.account.AccountLocal</local>

 <ejb-class>com.company.ht.data.account.AccountBean</ejb-class>
 <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
 <prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class>
 <reentrant>False</reentrant>
 <cmp-version>2.x</cmp-version>
 <abstract-schema-name>Account</abstract-schema-name>
 <cmp-field >
 <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
 <field-name>loginID</field-name>
 </cmp-field>
 <primkey-field>loginID</primkey-field>

 <query>
 <query-method>
 <method-name>findAccountByActivationID</method-name>
 <method-params>
 <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
 </method-params>
 </query-method>
 <ejb-ql><![CDATA[query string ...]]></ejb-ql>
 </query>
 <!-- Write a file named ejb-finders-AccountBean.xml if you want to define extra finders. -->
 </entity>

jbosscmp-jdbc.xml listing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jbosscmp-jdbc PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSSCMP-JDBC 3.2//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jbosscmp-jdbc_3_2.dtd">

<jbosscmp-jdbc>
 <defaults>
 </defaults>

 <enterprise-beans>

 <!--
 To add beans that you have deployment descriptor info for, add
 a file to your XDoclet merge directory called jbosscmp-jdbc-beans.xml
 that contains the <entity></entity> markup for those beans.
 -->

 <entity>
 <ejb-name>Account</ejb-name>
 <datasource>java:/HealthTheaterDS</datasource>
 <datasource-mapping>MS SQLSERVER2000</datasource-mapping>

 <cmp-field>
 <field-name>loginID</field-name>
 <column-name>LoginID</column-name>

 </cmp-field>

<!-- jboss 3.2 features -->
<!-- optimistic locking does not express the exclusions needed -->
 </entity>

 </enterprise-beans>

</jbosscmp-jdbc>

jboss.xml listing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 3.2//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_3_2.dtd">

<jboss>

 <enterprise-beans>

 <!--
 To add beans that you have deployment descriptor info for, add
 a file to your XDoclet merge directory called jboss-beans.xml that contains
 the <session></session>, <entity></entity> and <message-driven></message-driven>
 markup for those beans.
 -->

 <entity>
 <ejb-name>Account</ejb-name>
 <local-jndi-name>AccountHomeLocal</local-jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>

 </entity>

 <session>
 <ejb-name>ServerControllerService</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>ServerControllerService</jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>
 </session>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>EmailAgentService</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>EmailAgentService</jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>
 </session>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>AccountControllerService</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>AccountControllerService</jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>
 </session>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>ReportDataControllerService</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>ReportDataControllerHomeRemote</jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>
 </session>

 </enterprise-beans>

 <resource-managers>
 </resource-managers>

</jboss>

[aloubyansky]

Because BCEL is used for entity proxy generation. Look for conflicting BCEL jar in the classpath.

[dev2gosoft]

Alexis,
Thanks for taking time out of your response. I searched the computer for bcel.jar and the only two places I have found the jar file is

<JBOSS3.2.4_HOME>/server/all/lib
<JBOSS3.2.4_HOME>/server/default/lib

I am running the "all" configuration.

bcel.jar in the both the places is 505kb in size. (it is of 504kb in jboss3.2.3)

I have multiple versions of xalan.jar in the jdk, jboss and each is of different size ranging 850kb to 2.75MB ....but none of them have references to bcel.jar ....

Am i missing something...?

Thanks again...I appreciate it very much.

[millerm1]

Have a look at the following topic, I think they had the same problem:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=50964

Hope this helps,
Mark

[dev2gosoft]

Thanks for the prompt response. It is fixed now. Yours/ and Alexey's response lead me to inspect all the jar files in the JAVA_HOME/.../JRE/LIB/ENDORSED directory... . It was the xsltr.jar that had "bcel" stuff not the suspected xalan.jar. removed that jar file and I was able to proceed.


Thanks to both of you for taking time out to help.