Hi,

I have a .war and .sar deployed in JBoss 5 which both require spring framework version 3 jars. We have other services deployed which use spring version 2 and the JAR for that version is in the server lib directory.

I can get the .sar to use its local spring JARs using the jboss-classloading.xml file in the META-INF directory, however it won't seem to work for the war file.

test.sar/META-INF/jboss-classloading.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
    name="test.sar"
    domain="test.sar.domain"
    parent-first="false"
    export-all="NON_EMPTY"
    import-all="false">
</classloading>

test.war/WEB-INF/jboss-classloading.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
     name="test.war"
     domain="test.war.domain"
     parent-first="false"
     export-all="NON_EMPTY"
     import-all="false">
</classloading>

I get this error:

11:27:58,131 ERROR [[/test]](main) Servlet /test threw load() exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Class [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.SimplePropertyNamespaceHandler] does not implement the NamespaceHandler interface

Looks like its still picking up classes from the spring v2 jar in the server lib directory. It seems that altering the classloading policy with the jboss-classloading.xml file works for the .sar but not the .war. Could someone advise me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks,

Brad.