Weblogic Preprosessor in Maven - java

I have some Java code that is currently packaged in the BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform.
My task is to migrate the structure of the project (without actually touching the code) to a maven structure to be packaged from command line (or from eclipse m2e).
Problem is, the code has some annotations like this:
#WebService(serviceName = "Cancelacion", targetNamespace =
"http://www.banamex.com.mx/OtorgamientoPension/cancelacion")
#WLHttpTransport(contextPath = "OtorgamientoPension", serviceUri =
"cancelacion", portName = "cancelacionSOAP")
#Policies({
#Policy(uri="policy:Wssp1.2-Wss1.0-X509-Basic256.xml", direction = Policy.Direction.inbound),
})
public class CancelacionPortImpl implements CancelacionPort {
...
}
That create some configuration inside the war (a mysterious meta-inf inside the web-inf and plenty of xml).
Please notice the #Policies which is from a WebLogic library. It creates some security-related config and that's (alongside the ws stuff) is what i want to generate.
Is there a way to process this from maven?
EDIT
So far I have tried with the weblogic-maven-plugin. It didn't work (also, due to internal policies, the not-so-straightforward way of installing this plugin is not an option).
I'm trying to find a vague reference a co-worker gave me about certain "jtools" compiler... but can't find anything that comes with that name and have some relation with WebLogic.
So the #Policies annotation is still a problem.
Right now I'm looking for a eclipse-plugin that does this, based on the premise that was the IDE who process that annotations.
For the wsdl issue, I find out that the namespace definition whas wrong. I corrected it and now it's working. I used the jaxb2-maven-plugin because I have no knowledge of jaxws-maven-plugin and I already had the config of the former.

Looks like you might need some Weblogic classes on your classpath. Short of uploading these to your own private Maven repository, you might consider checking out the Oracle Maven repository to find the Weblogic artifacts you need. Since these are likely container-provided jars (i.e. you don't need to package them in your war), you'll want to define them with a scope of "provided" in your dependencies, e.g. <scope>provided</scope>.

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Using SpringExtension with Tomcat and Hibernate web app

We are trying to use spring-test's SpringExtension to write integration tests for our Spring and Hibernate-based Tomcat web application. Our sessionFactory bean configuration has the property configured mappingJarLocations with a sample value as /WEB-INF/lib/company-common*.jar which contains hibernate mapping files. In both actual deployment and Eclipse dev deployment, this works fine as the docBasePath (in Servlet environment) is appended to this pattern and the files are getting resolved. But this is not the case while running JUnit test cases either in a local or a CI environment.
We tried our best to use the provided support by having few overridden implementations of WebTestContextBootstraper, GenricXmlWebContextLoader, XmlWebApplicationContext, and WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader but had to finally give up as we cannot override the final method org.springframework.test.context.web.AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration) to provide the custom implementation of XmlWebApplicationContext. Our current approach is to manually create the application context and use it in the tests.
Here is the project structure:
Project_WebApp
|--src/**
|--WebContent/**
|--pom.xml
When the app is packaged as Project_WebApp.war, the dependencies are inside WEB-INF/lib from the root of extracted war. When deployed as a webapp in Tomcat using Eclipse, the dependencies are copied to <Eclipse_Workspace_Dir>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/Project_WebApp/WEB-INF/lib. In both cases, the dependencies are available at <Resource_Base_Path>/WEB-INF/lib and Resource_Base_Path has no relation to Project_WebApp base directory.
Questions:
Did any one use SpringExtension in a scenario similar to above? If so can you suggest any alternative approaches?
Instead of /WEB-INF/lib/company-common*.jar, we tried a classpath-based pattern but didn't work as the obtained class path resources don't match the pattern. Is there anything else to try here?

NoSuchMethodError - Calling Class/Method from Class in Same Package

We are integrating an internal framework into our weblogic application and we are running into deployment problems.
Technologies Used
Weblogic 10.3.6 application
Spring 3.0
Maven 2
Eclipse J2EE
The Problem
On startup of the weblogic application, we receive the following NoSuchMethodError while initializing one of the beans. This error is occuring when calling classes in the org.joda.time (2.0) jar.
Caused By: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.convertLocalToUTC(JZ)J
at org.joda.time.LocalDate.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay(LocalDate.java:715)
at org.joda.time.LocalDate.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay(LocalDate.java:690)
. . . excluded . . .
Things We Have Tried
After Googling "NoSuchMethodError spring", many of the problems seem to be incompatible Spring versions. After printing the dependency tree, the only Spring version in use is 3.0.
Googling "NoSuchMethodError" usually gave JAR hell solutions.
Multiple versions of the same dependency. After doing some maven dependency management, the only joda-time jar in use is 2.0. Additionally, the local repository was purged of any unnecessary jars.
.war / runtime may not have the correct jars included in the lib directory. After looking into the WEB_INF/lib directory, the only joda-time jar is version 2.0, which contains all of the appropriate class files
One mysterious thing is that the DateTimeZone.convertLocalToUTC(JZ)J has been a part of the org.joda.time project since 1.0, so even if we have incompatible versions, the method should still be found, especially if the class and package are able to be found.
Finally there are no other DateTimeZone classes in the project (ctrl+shift+T search in eclipse) so I'm confused as to which class is being loaded if the org.joda.DateTimeZone class is not being loaded.
Questions:
Can anyone explain why the method could not be found?
Are there more places to check for existing or conflicting jars?
Is there a way to check the DateTimeZone class that the LocalDate class is using during runtime via Eclipse debug?
Here's some interesting reading:
prefer-web-inf-classes Element
The weblogic.xml Web application deployment descriptor contains a
element (a sub-element of the
element). By default, this element is set to
False. Setting this element to True subverts the classloader
delegation model so that class definitions from the Web application
are loaded in preference to class definitions in higher-level
classloaders. This allows a Web application to use its own version of
a third-party class, which might also be part of WebLogic Server. See
“weblogic.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements.”
taken from: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/wls/docs103/programming/classloading.html
Other troubleshooting tips:
You can try: -verbose:class and check your managed server's logs to check if the class is being loaded properly.
An efficient way to confirm which intrusive jar might be getting loaded is by running a whereis.jsp within the same webcontext (i.e., JVM instance) of this app.
--whereis.jsp --
<%# page import="java.security.*" %>
<%# page import="java.net.URL" %>
<%
Class cls = org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.class;
ProtectionDomain pDomain = cls.getProtectionDomain();
CodeSource cSource = pDomain.getCodeSource();
URL loc = cSource.getLocation();
out.println(loc);
// it should print something like "c:/jars/MyJar.jar"
%>
You can also try jarscan on your $WEBLOGIC_HOME folder to see if you can find the jar that contains this class: https://java.net/projects/jarscan/pages/Tutorial
A NoSuchMethodError is almost always due to conflicting library versions. In this case I'm guessing there are multiple versions of joda libraries in the two projects.
Weblogic is pulling the org.joda jar.
Tryu adding this in your weblogic.xml to exclude the jar that weblogic is pulling, and instead use your appllication jar.
The below is from my application, you can have a look what all we have to removed for our application.
<wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:prefer-application-packages>
<wls:package-name>antlr.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j.helpers.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j.impl.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j.spi.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.hibernate.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.springframework.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>javax.persistence.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.apache.commons.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.apache.xmlbeans.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>javassist.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.joda.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>javax.xml.bind.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.eclipse.persistence.*</wls:package-name>
</wls:prefer-application-packages>
<wls:show-archived-real-path-enabled>true</wls:show-archived-real-path-enabled>
</wls:container-descriptor>

How do I determine which version of a class my object is?

I'm trying to write a plugin into a framework application (Joget). My plugin source looks something like this:
public class MyPlugin extends ExtDefaultPlugin implements ApplicationPlugin, ParticipantPlugin {
...
public void execute(){
...
SecurityContextImpl secContext = (SecurityContextImpl) WorkflowUtil.getHttpServletRequest().getSession().getAttribute("SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT");
}
}
When I run the plugin, I get the following exception.
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.springframework.security.context.SecurityContextImpl cannot be cast to org.springframework.security.context.SecurityContextImpl
I'm using Maven. Now since both have the same package name, I'm assuming I'm accidentally using the wrong package version in my plugin JAR (that contains the SecurityContextImpl class) than the one in the framework. But I've double-checked and it looks like I'm including the correct one in my plugin package.
Is there a way to see the classloader or source JAR of my class (e.g. using reflection in some manner)? Any other ideas on how to address this?
This type of java.lang.ClassCastException, where both classes names are equals, occur when the same class, or two class with the same name are loaded by 2 different classloaders.
I don't know Joget, but you are talking about plugin. Frameworks often load plugins in separate classloaders to ensure a proper isolation between them.
Since you say I've double-checked and it looks like I'm including the correct one in my plugin package., you may want to remove spring-security from your package, as it's probably already loaded by the framework classloader.
You're using Maven, so you may simply add <scope>provided</scope> to the spring-security dependency (but not sure, since we don't have your pom.xml)
I've got the same exception when I was running my plugin.
There are two cases in general:
1. The class is a local class.
And that is to say, there is no repository(groupId, artificateId, etc) to be deployed in the pom.xml of your plugin. The solution is, go the target folder and open the xxx-0.0.1-snapshot.jar file, then open META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, add the source file of that class /dependency/file.jar, then add the source jar to the dependency folder
Remarks: It is better to give a version of the your local file and add it as shown in your pom.xml to let it be found as src in your code.
<!-- your source jar need to be renamed as example-1.0.0.jar -->
<dependency>
<groupId>this.should.be.the.prefix.of.your.package</groupID>
<artificateId>file.name<artificateId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<systemPath>${basedir}/lib/stclient_updated-1.0.0.jar</systemPath>
<scope>system</scope>
</dependency>
2. The class is a remote class with repository
I had this type of problem once because the repository is not correct, see also Maven Repository to find the official repository of the source.
I hope that it could help =)
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Classloader problem with EJB

I'm working on a project which includes persistence library (JPA 1.2), EJB 3 and Web presentation layer (JSF). I develop application using Eclipse and application is published on Websphere Application Server Community Edition (Geronimo 2.1.4) through eclipse plugin (but the same thing happens if I publish manually). When publishing to server I get the following error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not fully load class: manager.administration.vehicles.VehicleTypeAdminBean
due to:manager/vehicles/VehicleType
in classLoader:
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.classloader.TemporaryClassLoader#18878c7
at org.apache.xbean.finder.ClassFinder.(ClassFinder.java:177)
at org.apache.xbean.finder.ClassFinder.(ClassFinder.java:146)...
In web.xml I have reference to EJB:
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/VehicleTypeAdmin</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<local>manager.administration.vehicles.VehicleTypeAdmin</local>
<ejb-link>VehicleTypeAdminBean</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>
EJB project has a reference to persistence project, and Web project has references to both projects. I don't get any compilation errors, so I suppose classes and references are correct.
I don't know if it is app server problem, but I ran previously application on the same server using same configuration parameters.
Does anybody have a clue what might be the problem?
Looks almost like it couldn't find the class manager.vehicles.VehicleType when it was attempting to create/load the class manager.administration.vehicles.VehicleTypeAdminBean.
I've encountered similar problems before. When the class loader attempts to load the class it looks at the import statements (and other class usage declarations) and then attempts to load those classes and so on until it reaches the bottom of the chain (ie java.lang.Object). If it cannot find one class along the chain (in your case it looks like it cannot load VehicleType) then it will state that it cannot load the class at the top of the chain (in your case VehicleTypeAdminBean).
Is the VehicleType class in a different jar? If you have a web module and and EJB module do you have the jar containing the VehicleType class in the appropriate place(s). Sometimes with web projects you have to put the jars in the WebContent/WEB-INF/lib folder or it won't find them.
Are both of these projects deployed separately (ie. two ears? or one ear and one war?) or are they together (ie, one ear with jars and a war inside?). I'm assuming the second given you declared your EJB local?
The jars that you are dependent on also have to be declared in your MANIFEST.MF files in the projects that use it.
I'm kind of running on guesses since I do not know your project structure. Showing that would help quite a bit. But I'd still check on where VehicleType is located with regards to your EJB class. You might find it isn't where you think it is come packaging or runtime.
Thanks #Chris for WebContent/WEB-INF/lib idea ! it works for me by following these steps :
1- Export my EJBs to a JAR (MyEJBs.jar)
2- I created another jar with your_installation_path/IBM/SDP/runtimes/your_version/binCreateEJBStrub.bat via CMD.exe, by executing this command :
createEJBStubs.bat <my_path>/MyEJBs.jar -newfile –quiet
3- A new jar will be automatically created in the same directory as MyEJBs.jar named MyEJBs_withStubs.jar
4- Put your new jar in WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
5- Call your EJBs by :
MyEJBRemote eJBRemote;
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
obj = ic.lookup("your_ejb_name_jndi");
eJBRemote = (MyEJBRemote ) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj,
MyEJBRemote.class);
eJBRemote = (MyEJBRemote ) obj;
Now you can call your EJBs from another EAR

web client for web service

I've a web-service that works fine when I access them from a J2SE (desktop) application. To access this service I do follow:
generate stub classes by wsdl link using java wsimport tool
then I create service using generated classes and run one of wsdl operations.It looks like this:
MyWebServiceService webService = new MyWebServiceService();
MyWebService port = webService.getMyWebServicePort();
webService.run("XYZ");
As I sad it work fine when I use it in a standalone application.
But...when I try to access web-service in the same way but from servlet-client, using generated stubs I get following error:
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.xml.bind.api.JAXBRIContext
org.jboss.ws.metadata.umdm.EndpointMetaData.eagerInitializeAccessors(EndpointMetaData.java:686)
org.jboss.ws.metadata.umdm.EndpointMetaData.initializeInternal(EndpointMetaData.java:567)
org.jboss.ws.metadata.umdm.EndpointMetaData.eagerInitialize(EndpointMetaData.java:553)
org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSClientMetaDataBuilder.rebuildEndpointMetaData(JAXWSClientMetaDataBuilder.java:314)
org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.spi.ServiceDelegateImpl.getPortInternal(ServiceDelegateImpl.java:271)
org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.spi.ServiceDelegateImpl.getPort(ServiceDelegateImpl.java:202)
javax.xml.ws.Service.getPort(Service.java:143...
I've searched google long time but found nothing helpful topics. Some topics show examples accessing web-services from servlet, but unfortunately I can't do this...( And don't know what is cause of trouble.
Application server: jboss 4.2.3GA
Is it possible to connect web-service from servlet? How?
I've tried use #WebServiceRef annotation, but it seem web-container can't inject web-service stub. And I think that container must not do this itself, because stub classes have already been generated by wsimport tool, and its enouph to use this classes for accessing of web-service.
Stub classes were generated using the following command:
wsimport -keep -p com.myhost.ws http://www.myhost.com/services/MyWebService?wsdl
Did you make sure your classpath does not contain multiple JAX-B Jars with differing versions ? The exception looks like a version conflict to me. Application servers usually have some kind of "endorsed" lib directory that holds JARS that are always added in front of web application classpaths. Maybe your app server has a conflicting JAX-B implementation there ?
If you use Maven to package your application, make sure transitive dependencies don't pull in unwanted JAX-B Jars (use 'mvn dependency:tree' to check this).
This definitely sounds like a JAXB conflict to me. Check out the jaxb versions that you have in your war and make sure that they are not conflicting with a jaxb jar that Jboss may have in its lib directory.
Addytionally if jbossws-native library was installed correctly the following packages should be deleted from jboss_home/lib/endorsed directory:
jboss-jaxrpc.jar
jboss-jaxws-ext.jar
jboss-jaxws.jar
jboss-saaj.jar
Otherwise you don't have ability to connect to web service through EJB or servlet.

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