Hi,

when trying to deploy my EAR file at JBoss 4.2.1 (Java 1.6) I'm getting following exception:

Failed to parse WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Security role 'userpreferencesservicerole' defined in jboss-web.xml is not defined in web.xml)

However, the security role "userpreferencesservicerole" is defined in both jboss-web.xml AND web.xml, so what is going wrong here?

jboss-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-web>
 <security-role>
 <role-name>userpreferencesservicerole</role-name>
 <principal-name>UserPreferencesServiceUsers</principal-name>
 </security-role>

 <context-root></context-root>
 <security-domain>java:/jaas/postboxjaas</security-domain>
</jboss-web>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
 <display-name>UserPreferencesService</display-name>
 <session-config>
 <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
 </session-config>
 <security-constraint>
 <web-resource-collection>
 <web-resource-name>UserPreferencesService</web-resource-name>
 <url-pattern>/UserPreferencesService/*</url-pattern>
 <http-method>GET</http-method>
 <http-method>POST</http-method>
 </web-resource-collection>
 <auth-constraint>
 <role-name>userpreferencesservicerole</role-name>
 </auth-constraint>
 <user-data-constraint>
 <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
 </user-data-constraint>
 </security-constraint>
 <login-config>
 <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
 </login-config>
 <security-role>
 <role-name>userpreferencesservicerole</role-name>
 </security-role>
</web-app>

org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to parse WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Security role 'userpreferencesservicerole' defined in jboss-web.xml is not defined in web.xml)
 at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.parseMetaData(AbstractWebContainer.java:768)
 at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.init(AbstractWebContainer.java:356)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor93.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.DynamicInterceptor.invoke(DynamicInterceptor.java:97)
 at org.jboss.system.InterceptorServiceMBeanSupport.invokeNext(InterceptorServiceMBeanSupport.java:238)
 at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.init(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:119)
 at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport$XMBeanInterceptor.init(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:172)
 at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptor.invoke(SubDeployerInterceptor.java:87)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
 at $Proxy45.init(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:872)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:895)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:809)
 at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor25.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
 at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
 at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
 at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:610)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
 at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225)
Caused by: org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Security role 'userpreferencesservicerole' defined in jboss-web.xml is not defined in web.xml
 at org.jboss.metadata.WebMetaData.importJBossWebXml(WebMetaData.java:1091)
 at org.jboss.metadata.WebMetaData.importXml(WebMetaData.java:770)
 at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.parseMetaData(AbstractWebContainer.java:763)
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