[GERONIMO-3958] No web-app element when geronimo-web.xml contains other root element

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: deployment, web
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jacek Laskowski
• Created: 14/Apr/08 19:25
• Updated: 14/Apr/08 19:25

Description

Tried to deploy a webapp with geronimo-web.xml that contained some other root element than web-app and kept getting the bizzare (and very user-unfriendly) error message:

No web-app element
org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: No web-app element
at org.apache.geronimo.web.deployment.GenericToSpecificPlanConverter.convertToSpecificPlan(GenericToSpecificPlanConverter.java:127)
at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.getJettyWebApp(JettyModuleBuilder.java:330)
at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.createModule(JettyModuleBuilder.java:252)
at org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.createModule(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:183)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.SwitchingModuleBuilder.createModule(SwitchingModuleBuilder.java:144)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.addModules(EARConfigBuilder.java:873)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getEarPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:402)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getDeploymentPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:295)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:226)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:133)
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:585)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:867)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.AbstractDeployCommand.doDeploy(AbstractDeployCommand.java:116)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.DistributeCommand.run(DistributeCommand.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Couldn't figure out what was wrong until I looked at the source code and found I had "correupted" geronimo-web.xml.