[GERONIMO-518] Deploying Struts app fails on Logging ClassCastException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: core, web
• Assignee: Gianny Damour
• Reporter: Aaron Mulder
• Created: 06/Dec/04 02:35
• Updated: 07/Aug/06 15:05
• Resolved: 15/Oct/05 16:47

Description

Deploying a web app based on Struts results in the ClassCastException in commons logging displayed below. The web app includes a version of commons-logging in its WEB-INF/lib. The same web app can be successfully deployed in Tomcat 5.0.25 with no problems.

Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.newInstance(Holder.java:199)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.start(ServletHolder.java:240)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initializeServlets(ServletHandler.java:447)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.initializeServlets(WebApplicationHandler.java:298)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.doStart(WebApplicationContext.java:512)
at org.apache.geronimo.jetty.JettyWebAppContext.doStart(JettyWebAppContext.java:244)
...

Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.geronimo.kernel.log.GeronimoLogFactory
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory$2.run(LogFactory.java:609)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.newFactory(LogFactory.java:561)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:298)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:395)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.<clinit>(ActionServlet.java:375)
... 67 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.geronimo.kernel.log.GeronimoLogFactory
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory$2.run(LogFactory.java:571)
... 72 more

Issue Links

• is part of: GERONIMO-1074 GeronimoLogFactory should be installed via the service provider mechanism
• is part of: GERONIMO-1075 Configuration classloaders should support an inverse classloading delegation model.