JAR File Contents Cause JBoss Deployer To Fail

• Key: DIRSERVER-331
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Alex Karasulu
• Reporter: Simon Temple
• Component/s: sar
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0, 1.0-RC4

Description

The presence of the META-INF/maven folders and/or their content causes the JBoss deployer to skip JAR files.

Then we experience an avalanche of java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exceptions!

It could be argued that this is a problem with the JBoss deployer (perhaps seraching for .xml files in META-INF folders), however, we're not in a position to modify the JBoss deployer at this time.

Can the maven folders be removed from the JARs or perhaps a build switch introduced to produce JBoss compatible JARs?

Thanks

Comments

[Alex Karasulu]

I have no idea if this is even possible regarding the maven folders. I'd have to check with the maven peeps. Now with regard to the exception are you certain that the maven folders are causing this? Did you try unjaring, removing them, jaring and redeploygin?

[Simon Temple]

Yes I removed the maven XML files and the problem goes away.

Any XML file in a META-INF folder is regarded as instruction to a deployer... I checked to the JBoss code... they search for all files with the .xml extension beneath META-INF.

The problem ist caused by the jboss-sar-maven-plugin. Although I reported the problem and supplied a patch, nobody bothered to apply it.
See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-377

[Alex Karasulu]

I applied your patch. See if you can get the sar to work now.

[Alex Karasulu]

fix for 1.0 on 437399 here:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=437399

and for 1.1 here:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=437401