[WW-2999] Convention plugin and jar scanning failing on Websphere

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.8
• Component/s: Plugin - Convention

Environment

Websphere 6.1

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Denis Cabasson
• Created: 17/Feb/09 21:23
• Updated: 28/Oct/12 22:08
• Resolved: 10/Mar/09 13:25

Description

Hi,

I am upgrading an existing project from struts 2.0.14 to 2.1.6. We are using the zero configuration approach, and the classpath scanning ability.

The application is running on Websphere 6.1, and I had a lot of trouble having it work. My 2 major issues were :

• Classes of the current project not being scanned : This url file:/C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv02/installedApps/F6FMSWASTSTNode02Cell/fms-ear.ear/fms-web.war/WEB-INF/classes/ was originally excluded by the filters in the convention plugin. I'll let you know exactly which one did that
• We had some action classes in a dependency jar, and it didn't get included because of the wsjar protocol. See http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/XW-669 for more documentation on this protocol and its inclusion in Xwork. The url look like :
  wsjar:file:/C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv02/installedApps/F6FMSWASTSTNode02Cell/fms-ear.ear/fms-web.war/WEB-INF/lib/axis-1.4.jar!/
  And are not processed by com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.finder.ClassFinder.

I'll add more detail as I dig into this and let you know how I worked around it (except by moving to a real application server.... )