3 Replies Latest reply on Jul 19, 2012 8:44 PM by scorcher14x

    JBoss AS7 app deployed on a Mac can't find com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel

    chriswilliams

      We're migrating to JBoss AS7 from an older version of JBoss and we use JFreeChart in one part of our app:

      chart = ChartFactory.createStackedBarChart( "", "", "Data", dataset,
                 
      PlotOrientation.HORIZONTAL, true, false, false );

      When we hit this line, we get the stack trace below indicating that com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel can't be found. We only see this issue on a Mac which makes sense given the com.apple.laf package name. Running on a Linux server seems to work fine. Is there something we need to do to get AS7 on a Mac to recognize Apple's look and feel classes?

      All of the Macs I've tried this on are fully updated as of 4/26/12. I haven't been able to find one that has some of the older JVMs.

      Stack trace:

      15:38:30,125 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.lifecycle] (http--0.0.0.0-8080-1) JSF1054: (Phase ID: RENDER_RESPONSE 6, View ID: /blah/blah/blah/blahInfo.xhtml) Exception thrown during phase execution: javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent[source=com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@3dc264b1]
      15:38:30,129 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/mgmt].[Faces Servlet]] (http--0.0.0.0-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel from [Module "deployment.blah_war-1001.0-SNAPSHOT.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:190)
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468)
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456)
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:423)
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398)
          at org
      .jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120)
          at java
      .lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at java
      .lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(SwingUtilities.java:1856) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:563) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1329) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1422) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1410) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.getDefaults(UIManager.java:645) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at javax
      .swing.UIManager.getColor(UIManager.java:687) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31]
          at org
      .jfree.chart.JFreeChart.<clinit>(JFreeChart.java:261) [jfreechart-1.0.13.jar:]
          at org
      .jfree.chart.ChartFactory.createStackedBarChart(ChartFactory.java:950) [jfreechart-1.0.13.jar:]
          at
      this.is.our.code.DisplayChart.buildChart(DisplayChart.java:73) [classes:]

      For now we've been able to get around this problem by specifying the default look and feel as a system property when starting JBoss:

      -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

      This seems like more of a hack so if there's a better way, we'd like to try that.