How to use global-module class for ejb home/remote? - java

Migrating an existing project to maven and wildfly and had to move some files around creating the following situation.
core.jar
ejb1.jar
ejb2.jar
With the ejb-jar.xml for ejb1.jar having the following:
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<session id="Value">
..
<home>path.to.ejb1Home</home>
<remote>path.to.ejb1</remote>
...
The classes referenced in the home and remote tags have moved to be inside core.jar
Meanwhile ejb2.jar has dependencies on other parts of core.jar.
What looked like the easiest resolution was to create a global module and place core.jar in it, creating the appropriate module.xml and entry in standalone.sh to make it accessible to all deployments.
module.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="path.to">
<resources>
<resource-root path="core-1.0.jar"/>
</resources>
<dependencies>
</dependencies>
</module>
With this setup, ejb2.jar deploys as expected but ejb1.jar throws the following error:
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed to link path.to.ejb1
(Module "path.to" from local module loader #4c40b76e (finder: local
module finder #2ea6137 (roots: /opt/wildfly/modules,
/opt/wildfly/modules/system/layers/base))): javax/ejb/EJBObject

You should carefully think about your requirement. Usually, you don't need to provide common resources, especially application interfaces, as module, especially as global module. Choose the right solution for your requirements, not a solutions that looks easy at first sight without knowing the implications.
I would recommend these possibilities in the order given (see the Class Loading in Wildfly Documentation for more information):
Reconsider your requirement for different EARs. Provide the core jar as library with your EAR.
Even with more than one EAR: provide the core.jar as library. This is no redundancy, this is just separation.
Consider not using a global module. Just install your custom module. Provide a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file, adding this module as additional dependency. If the module contains annotated classes or interfaces, which should be considered upon deployment, set the attribute annotations=true with the module dependency configuration.
Add a global module to your configuration file. Probably you can even use the `annotations' property, but this is something I don't know and I didn't check.
An example for the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file:
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.3">
<ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>
<deployment>
<dependencies>
<module name="my.custom.module" export="true" annotations="true"/>
</dependencies>
</deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
EDIT:
When installing modules, don't forget to provide transitive module dependencies to other modules your own module depends on. User your module.xml file to do so. In your case, you probably need at least a dependency to the javax.ejb.api module.

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ClassA cannot be cast to ClassA : java.lang.ClassCastException

I have Ejb webservice project ,and other web projects ,which I am deploying through EAR on Wildfly 10.x server,
the war project and the Ejb project require oracle.sql.OPAQUE for creating xml data through xdb jars,
For oracle.sql.OPAQUE I have added ojdbc6 in the project build path and added it in the deployment descriptor as well,
I have added ojdbc6 drivers in the wildfly module as well, for jdbc connections.
On deploying the project, there are no errors, where as when running the page, I am getting oracle.sql.OPAQUE cannot be cast to oracle.sql.OPAQUE: java.lang.ClassCastException: oracle.sql.OPAQUE cannot be cast to oracle.sql.OPAQUE
it seems like the classloader has loaded the oracle.sql.OPAQUE twice and thus its a problem
I have tried removing the ojdbc6 from the deployment descriptor, but
then that throws noclassdeffounderror on the EAR deployment itself.
if somebody could please tell me how do I resolve this classloader issue,
on wildfly server side, it would be helpful.
or to force it to use the class from particular side.
thanks alot, please provide any possible links, I would be grateful to you.
10:24:39,460 INFO [icrCommon] (default task-8) ++++ QueryRequest queryXMLAccess() - ContextKey:256574422:190508:210142844 TypeId: 0 Channel: CAP
10:24:40,521 SEVERE [com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.EndpointMethodHandler] (default task-8) oracle.sql.OPAQUE cannot be cast to oracle.sql.OPAQUE: java.lang.ClassCastException: oracle.sql.OPAQUE cannot be cast to oracle.sql.OPAQUE
at com.att.icr.dataAccess.ICRDatabaseAccess.IcrActiveHistoryXMLQuery(ICRDatabaseAccess.java:2093)
at com.att.icr.icrservices.datamapping.ICRDataAccess.queryXMLAccess(ICRDataAccess.java:1161)
at com.att.icr.icrservices.ICRSoapHttpBindingImpl.queryICR(ICRSoapHttpBindingImpl.java:307)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
This issue relevant class loading issue in Wildfly. As you know Wildfly has a modular class loading structure. Each module has a own Classloader. It is not enough that the class types are the same. Must be the same in Classloaders. In JBoss doc:
WildFly's class loading is based on modules that have to define explicit dependencies on other modules. Deployments in WildFly are also modules, and do not have access to classes that are defined in jars in the application server unless an explicit dependency on those classes is defined.
You can create custom module and provide .ears load jar within this module. Create module.xml file in $JBOSS_HOME/modules/com/example/main/, Write the jar's name you want to load into module.xml.
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.5" name="com.example">
<resources>
<resource-root path="sample.jar"/>
</resources>
Copy the jar to the path where module.xml is located.
+-----com
+-----example
+-----main
module.xml
sample.jar
Create deployment descriptior(jboss-deployment-structure.xml) in .ears and add your module to this files.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<deployment>
<dependencies>
<module name="com.example" export="true" />
</dependencies>
</deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
So, Jar's classloaders are the same. You can look into this example and redhat doc.

Jboss deployment error: class A cannot access its superclass B

I'm pretty new to JBoss and I'm trying to deploy a .war file on JBoss version 7.0.6 GA.
The .war file is created with the "export as .war file" option in Eclipse.
If I deploy the same .war file on Tomcat, it works without any error.
When I deploy on Jboss, I came across this strange error:
2017-10-20 17:29:26,803 ERROR [stderr] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 106)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: Failed to link
org/apache/log4j/xml/ExtXMLWatchdog (Module "deployment.
[MY_WAR_NAME].war:main" from Service Module Loader): class
org.apache.log4j.xml.ExtXMLWatchdog cannot access its superclass
org.apache.log4j.xml.XMLWatchdog
I'm using the log4j-1.2.17.jar library inside my web app; also, I'm using another custom library named util-log4j.jar.
Inside the log4j-1.2.17.jar is defined the class org.apache.log4j.xml.XMLWatchdog; inside the util-log4j.jar is defined the class
org.apache.log4j.xml.ExtXMLWatchdog.
It seems that the ExtXMLWatchdog cannot see the XMLWatchdog defined in another .jar, but why?
Thank you,
cheers!
Ok, I solved it. Sharing the solution:
inside the .war file, in the WEB-INF folder, I put a file named
jboss-deployment-structure.xml
with this content:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<deployment>
<exclusions>
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclusions>
<exclude-subsystems>
<subsystem name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclude-subsystems>
</deployment>
It seems that JBoss is equipped with some standard library, but those libraries maybe are loaded by a different ClassLoader (not sure of this, however)
With that file, essentially I'm telling to JBoss to ignore it's own org.apache.log4j library.
The result is that my log4j library is used, and problem is gone!

ClassNotFoundException in Wildfly 10 despite dependency being set

I'm running an application on WildFly 10. It contains a number of EJBs in an EAR. I have one EJB "gt" being triggered via JMS. That EJB calls another EJB "ps", resulting in an error, ultimately
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.IOFileFilter from [Module "deployment.MyApplication.ear:main" from Service Module Loader]
My jboss-deployment-structure.xml contains this
<sub-deployment name="ps.jar">
<dependencies>
<module name="org.apache.commons.io"/>
</dependencies>
</sub-deployment>
And there is a module of name "org.apache.commons.io" under jboss\modules\system\layers\base\org\apache\commons\io\main
What am I doing wrong?
What is the significance of stuff being under jboss\modules\system\layers rather than just under jboss\modules?
Is there a way to look into the configured dependencies of a sub-deployment at runtime, e.g, via the jboss-cli?
Update:
According to https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY10/Class+Loading+in+WildFly, I would have expected the error message to say [Module "deplyoment.MyApplication.ear.ps.jar:main" ...], but it doesn't. But why would the context be the global deployment, rather than the specific sub-deployment?
The logical call stack looks like this:
general.GeneralSomeClass.getIOFileFilter()
<-- static method. return type is IOFileFilter from Commons IO.
general is just a POJO lib (MyApplication.ear/lib/general.jar)
the exception occurs on loading the GeneralSomeClass, before calling the method
ps.PsSomeClass.run()
ps.PsEJB.run()
gt.GtEJB.run()
You need to load the classes manually in that case, I have done this in the standalone.xml for our application.
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:4.0">
<global-modules>
<module name="com.tibco.tibjms"/>
<module name="org.apache.logging.log4j.api"/>
<module name="org.apache.logging.log4j.core"/>
<module name="org.apache.logging.log4j.web"/>
</global-modules>
We ended up using the Dependencies: option in MANIFEST.MF, getting rid of the jboss-deployment-structure.xml altogether.

Basic ear-package deployment in JBoss

This is what I would like to achieve:
1 ear-package: all.ear
The ear-package contains two war's (A.war, B.war in the root of the ear)
The ear-package contains 1 self-made jar C and a lot of third party jars (under APP-INF\lib)
This package needs to be deployed on JBoss WildFly 8.2.1
I'm using maven's ear plugin (maven-ear-plugin, version 2.10.1). My configuration in the pom looks like this (this is the 'parent'-project which combines three other projects):
<configuration>
<finalName>All</finalName>
<defaultLibBundleDir>APP-INF/lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<includeLibInApplicationXml>true</includeLibInApplicationXml>
<version>6</version>
<displayName>All</displayName>
<modules>
<jarModule>
<groupId>project</groupId>
<artifactId>C</artifactId>
<bundleFileName>C.jar</bundleFileName>
<uri>APP-INF/lib/C.jar</uri>
<bundleDir>APP-INF/lib</bundleDir>
</jarModule>
<webModule>
<groupId>project</groupId>
<artifactId>A</artifactId>
<uri>A.war</uri>
<bundleFileName>A.war</bundleFileName>
<contextRoot>/a</contextRoot>
<bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
</webModule>
<webModule>
<groupId>project</groupId>
<artifactId>B</artifactId>
<uri>B.war</uri>
<bundleFileName>B.war</bundleFileName>
<contextRoot>/b</contextRoot>
<bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
</webModule>
</modules>
<archive>
<manifestEntries>
<Implementation-Version>1.0</Implementation-Version>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
My META.INF/application.xml file loos like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="6"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/application_6.xsd">
<display-name>All</display-name>
<initialize-in-order>true</initialize-in-order>
<module>
<java>APP-INF/lib/C.jar</java>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>B.war</web-uri>
<context-root>b</context-root>
</web>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>A.war</web-uri>
<context-root>a</context-root>
</web>
</module>
<library-directory>APP-INF/lib</library-directory>
</application>
The ear package is made. All third-party jars are under APP-INF/lib, but C.jar is in the root directory.
I have messed around a lot and got different errors when trying to upload the package to JBoss:
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS016703: Module may not be a child of the EAR's library directory. Library directory: APP-INF/lib, module file name: APP-INF/lib/[SomeThirthPartyLib].jar"
When I placed every library under root (don't use APP-INF), I've got a ClassNotFoundError for B.war (can't find the classes from C.jar).
I've already tried adding the 'jboss'-tags to the maven-ear-plugin (configuration), but those are not supported for JBoss 8+.
I want a .ear package which can be deployed in JBoss and contains 2 wars and 1 jar, which is referenced from both the wars.
What am I missing? (specific Manifest configuration? specific pom.xml settings for A, B or C? JBoss settings? ...?)
solution for the error "WFLYEE0097: Module may not be a child
of the EAR's library directory": the error is becuase of tag APP-INF/lib in application.xml. If library jars are inside EAR/lib then application.xml will work fine Since it is under EAR/APP-INF/lib, jboss or wildfly will not understand this(appication.xml) deployment descriptor. So use jboss-app.xml which wildfly understands even if the library directory is different. Solution : Simply copy complete content of application.xml to jboss-app.xml and place it META-INF folder (Also make sure to delete application.xml file or not making this get generated through pom.xml)
According to the JAVA EE specs, the container will not scan any deployment descriptors of any jar that is included in the library directory of the ear.
But what I presume you want to do is have access from the WARs to those ejb's you declared in C.jar. Again, according to specs, any ejb-jar sitting in an ear is visible to any other module:
Components in the web container may have access to the following classes and resources. Portable applications must not depend on having or not having access to these classes or resources.
•The classes and resources accessible to any other web modules included in the same ear file, as described above.
•The content of any EJB jar files included in the same ear file.
So, just put the C.jar anywhere else but in the lib directory and you're fine.

Module not excluded on Wildfly

We want to exclude the modules\system\layers\base\javax\servlet\jstl\api\main\jboss-jstl-api_1.2_spec-1.1.2.Final.jar from our web application deployment (WAR file).
Hence we have the following configuration in src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\jboss-deployment-structure.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2">
<deployment>
<exclusions>
<module name="javax.servlet.jstl.api"/>
</exclusions>
<dependencies>
<module name="deployment.my-dependencies.jar"/>
</dependencies>
</deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
In the Wildfly log I see that my-dependencies.jar is added as a ModuleDependency. But when searching for javax.servlet.jstl.api I only see this:
2015-04-03 15:22:11,971 DEBUG [org.jboss.modules] (ServerService
Thread Pool -- 12) Module javax.servlet.jstl.api:main defined by local
module loader #1f7c9157 (finder: local module finder #2b29f6e7 (roots:
C:\Users\me\Documents\wildfly-8.2.0.Final\modules,C:\Users\me\Documents\wildfly-8.2.0.Final\modules\system\layers\base))
Why isn't the module excluded?
Update: It seems that modules that are part of a user dependency can not be excluded.
It seems like the mechanism doesn't work as described in the Wildfly documentation. I was not able to exclude that module.
Yep. I was trying to upgrade to Spring Framework to v4.3. It has upped some minimum dependency requirements. One such example is Jackson min version required is 2.6+
Wildfly loads jackson that comes packaged (v2.4.1 in Wildfly 8.2.1), and it won't be excluded using jboss-deployment-structure.xml.
I was trying to see if the upgrade did not involve making changes to the installed server which takes this upgrade out of source control.

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