[irisjacky]

Hi folk:

I am having the problems of booting up JBoss 3.0.8 when I upgrade MyEclipse to 3.8.2.

It was working fine under 3.8 beta 2. Today I decide to upgrade MyEclipse and have problems with it. Following is my upgrade procedure:

1. Uninstall the MyEclipse 3.8 beta 2.
2. Restart Eclipse and shutdown.
3. Install MyEclipse 3.8.2

All views and perspectives are shown properly. But the JBoss 3.0.8 always fails when the booting procedure up to following line.

14:32:05,743 INFO  [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml

Note that there are a couple of EJB applications deployed in JBoss 3.0.8. However, with the same set of applications, I can boot up JBoss 3.2.5 successfully.

After spending an hour also, I switch back to 3.8 beta 2 and everything back to normal life. But I am very interested in the new features in 3.8.2.

Is there anyone able to help?

[Riyad Kalla]

Very strange… how do you know the startup fails? Do you get an exxception? If you do, what is it? Can you post the whole startup console log messages here for us to look at?

[irisjacky]

Thank you for your reply.

I did get an exception. After exception, the JBoss 3.0.8 shut down automatically.

I didn’t copy the exception trace information. So I need to upgrade to 3.8.2 again to post the error log messages here. I will do it a bitter later.

[Scott Anderson]

I believe this was caused by a change to update the JBoss 3 connector to support the new launch model in 3.2.5. I don’t suppose you can upgrade your JBoss version to the latest release of 3.2?

Actually, the change was only to use xerces instead of crimson in the default settings. So, if you open the connector and change the word “xerces” to “crimson” everywhere it occurs on the page, you should be fine again. To test that, I’d suggest you install Eclipse 3.0.1 and ME 3.8.2 in parallel to your current install, just to be sure it works ok for you.

[irisjacky]

Hi scott:

Good analysis!! I just duplicate the error and following is the full jboss server log

11:15:07,770 INFO  [Server] JBoss Release: JBoss-3.0.8 CVSTag=JBoss_3_0_8
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Home Dir: D:\jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Home URL: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Library URL: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/lib/
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Patch URL: null
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Name: default
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Home Dir: D:\jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24\server\default
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Home URL: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Data Dir: D:\jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24\server\default\db
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Temp Dir: D:\jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24\server\default\tmp
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Config URL: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Server Library URL: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/lib/
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Root Deployemnt Filename: jboss-service.xml
11:15:07,786 INFO  [Server] Starting General Purpose Architecture (GPA)...
11:15:08,083 INFO  [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.4.2_03,Sun Microsystems Inc.
11:15:08,083 INFO  [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.4.2_03-b02,Sun Microsystems Inc.
11:15:08,114 INFO  [ServiceController] Controller MBean online
11:15:08,192 INFO  [MainDeployer] Creating
11:15:08,208 INFO  [MainDeployer] Created
11:15:08,208 INFO  [MainDeployer] Starting
11:15:08,208 INFO  [MainDeployer] Started
11:15:08,224 INFO  [JARDeployer] Creating
11:15:08,224 INFO  [JARDeployer] Created
11:15:08,224 INFO  [JARDeployer] Starting
11:15:08,224 INFO  [MainDeployer] Adding deployer: org.jboss.deployment.JARDeployer@39e5b5
11:15:08,224 INFO  [JARDeployer] Started
11:15:08,239 INFO  [SARDeployer] Creating
11:15:08,239 INFO  [SARDeployer] Created
11:15:08,239 INFO  [SARDeployer] Starting
11:15:08,239 INFO  [MainDeployer] Adding deployer: org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer@bad8a8
11:15:08,255 INFO  [SARDeployer] Started
11:15:08,255 INFO  [Server] Core system initialized
11:15:08,270 INFO  [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
11:15:08,302 ERROR [Server] start failed
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: - nested throwable: (java.lang.NullPointerException)
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:158)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:679)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:615)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:591)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:575)
    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:324)
    at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
    at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:517)
    at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:324)
    at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:221)
    at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:148)
    at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:381)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:629)
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:130)
    ... 15 more
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: - nested throwable: (java.lang.NullPointerException)
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:158)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:679)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:615)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:591)
    at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:575)
    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:324)
    at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
    at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:517)
    at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:324)
    at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:221)
    at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:148)
    at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:381)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:629)
    at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:130)
    ... 15 more
11:15:08,317 INFO  [Server] Undeploying all packages
11:15:08,317 INFO  [MainDeployer] Undeploying file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
11:15:08,333 INFO  [DeploymentInfo] Cleaned Deployment: file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/tmp/deploy/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml/1.jboss-service.xml
11:15:08,333 INFO  [MainDeployer] Undeployed file:/D:/jboss-3.0.8_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
11:15:08,333 INFO  [MainDeployer] Undeployed 1 deployed packages
11:15:08,333 INFO  [Server] Shutting down all services
Shutting down
11:15:08,333 INFO  [ServiceController] Stopping 3 services
11:15:08,333 INFO  [SARDeployer] Stopping
11:15:08,333 INFO  [MainDeployer] Removing deployer: org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer@bad8a8
11:15:08,333 INFO  [SARDeployer] Stopped
11:15:08,333 INFO  [JARDeployer] Stopping
11:15:08,333 INFO  [JARDeployer] Stopped
11:15:08,333 INFO  [MainDeployer] Stopping
11:15:08,333 INFO  [MainDeployer] Stopped
11:15:08,333 INFO  [ServiceController] Stopped 3 services
11:15:08,333 INFO  [Server] Deleting server tmp/deploy directory
11:15:08,536 INFO  [Server] Shutdown complete
Shutdown complete
Halting VM

We are migrating to JBoss 3.2.5. It could take a while to get rid of all dependencies on JBoss 3.0.8 because JBoss did a lot of changes for 3.2.5.

So, if you open the connector and change the word “xerces” to “crimson” everywhere it occurs on the page, you should be fine again.

Where is this connector? I just checked the JBoss 3 plugin package in MyExclipse installation folder. There is no such information.

[Riyad Kalla]

Clicking on the menu: Window > Preferneces > MyEclipse > Application Servers > JBoss 3, you’ll see two fields “XML Document Build Factory Class” and “SAX Parser Factory CLass”, they probably say something like “org.apache.xerces.blah.blahb.lah” what Scott was saying is that you can go in and change all the “xerces” to “crimson” and see if that fixes the problem.

[irisjacky]

Cool, it works! Thanks a lot!

[Riyad Kalla]

Awesome.

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