There's an example of using the hidden-classes element here: http://opensource3.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/GERONIMO/Spring#Spring-dCountries
Here's the relevant portion of the sample <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.0"; configId="org/springframework/samples/countries"> <!-- force the usage of the Spring jars deployed with the web application --> <hidden-classes> <filter>org.springframework</filter> </hidden-classes> <context-root>/countries</context-root> <context-priority-classloader>false</context-priority-classloader> </web-app> Best wishes, Paul On 3/17/06, Richard Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Jencks wrote: > > > > On Mar 17, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Richard Wallace wrote: > > > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> I'm new to Geronimo. I'm trying to deploy one of my web applications > >> that had previously just been deployed in a standalone tomcat > >> container in Geronimo 1.0. I've tried this with both the version > >> with Jetty and with Tomcat bundled. The web app uses a > >> Hibernate/Spring/JSF framework stack. The jars for each project are > >> bundled in the war file in the WEB-INF/lib directory. > >> But when I deploy the application I'm getting NoClassDefFoundErrors > >> for javax/faces/el/VariableResolver and > >> org/hibernate/HibernateException. > >> > >> Any ideas what I'm missing here? > > > > My first guess is that a copy of spring included in geronimo is > > getting used in your web app instead of the copy you are trying to > > use: when our copy tries to load the faces/hibernate classes it can't > > find them. If this is the problem you should be able to fix it by > > adding spring and hibernate to the hidden classes list in your > > geronimo plan for your application. > > > > I think the xml syntax would be (consult > > modules/service-builder/src/schema/geronimo-config-1.0.xsd, this is > > also somewhere in the distribution such as schema/....) > > > > <hidden-classes> > > <filter>javax.faces.el.</filter> > > </hidden-classes> > > <hidden-classes> > > <filter>org.hibernate.</filter> > > </hidden-classes> > > > > I regard the need for multiple hidden-classes elements as a bug in the > > schema, and it is fixed in 1.1 (which doesn't work right now) (but not > > yet in 1.2, it will be fixed there when we merge in 1.1) > > > Ok, while trying that I saw the context-priority-classloader element > which should load stuff from the web app classloader before any of the > parent classloaders. I set this to true and tried to deploy. I don't > get any messages about javax.faces or org.hibernate now, but I am > getting this now: > > org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Invalid class > loader hierarchy. You have more than one version of > 'org.apache.commons.logging.Log' visible, which is not allowed. > > > So, I tried to hide the parent classloaders org.apache.commons.logging with > > <hidden-classes><filter>org.apache.commons.logging</filter></hidden-classes> > > But now Geronimo says there's a problem with my deployment descriptor: > > Error: Unable to distribute mpl.war: xml problem > > Invalid deployment descriptor: [error: cvc-complex-type.2.4a: > Expected elements > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.0' instead of > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.0' > here] > > Descriptor: <xml-fragment configId="MPLCommon" > xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.0"; > xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0"; > xmlns:security="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1"; > xmlns:tom="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/tomcat-1.0";> > > <tom:context-root>/mpl</tom:context-root> > > > > <tom:context-priority-classloader>true</tom:context-priority-classloader> > > <sys:hidden-classes> > > <sys:filter>org.apache.commons.logging</sys:filter> > > </sys:hidden-classes> > > </xml-fragment> > > From what I can tell, according to the docs and the schema this should > be alright. So what am I missing now? > > Thanks, > Rich >
