hello, i am having some classloader problems while starting the OpenEJB block. the message bellow is partitially a copy of a previous message that i sent to the OpenEJB list.
i have the following classloader structure ... ---------------- | Bootstrap CL | ---------------- | ------------- | System CL | ------------- | --------------- | Phoenix CL | --------------- | --------------- | EJB Bean CL | --------------- 1) 'bootstrap ' is the VMs bootstrap loader 2) 'system' is the VMs system loader (= CLASSPATH) 3) 'phoenix' is the Phoenix loader that starts the OpenEJB remote server (aka the OpenEJB block) 4) 'EJB bean' is the CL that loads the beans in 'openejb_ejb_tests-0.x.x.jar'. as documented in the jdk documentation, each CL delegates class loading requests via loadClass() to its parent CL. the phoenix classloader contains references to ... -------8<-------------8<------------8<------------8<------- file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/casto r-0.9.3.9-xml.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/casto r-0.9.3.9.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/ejb-1 .0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/ejb-2 .0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/ichil li-modules.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/idb_3 .26.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jaas_ 1.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jakar ta-regexp-1.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jca_1 .0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jdbc2 _0-stdext.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/JDBC3 Fake.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jdk12 -proxies.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jedi- 1_0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jedi- plugin-j2ee12.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jms_1 .0.2a.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jndi_ 1.2.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/jta_1 .0.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/junit _3.8.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/log4j -1.2.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/miner va.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/opene jb-0.9.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/opene jb_client-0.9.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/opene jb_ejb_tests-0.9.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/opene jb_server-0.9.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/openo rb-1.2.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/openo rb_rmi-1.2.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/openo rb_tools-1.2.1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/ots-j ts_1.0.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/poolm an.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/tyrex -0.9.8-iiop.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/tyrex -0.9.8.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/xalan -2.4.D1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/xerce sImpl-2.0.2.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/xml-a pis-2.4.D1.jar file:/G:/java/phoenix-4.0/work/openejb-block-1034371601252/SAR-INF/lib/xmlPa rserAPIs-2.0.2.jar ------->8------------->8------------>8------------>8------- while the EJB Bean CL tries to load beans, the beans CL also tries to load the common EJB interfaces located in the ejb-1.0.jar file. because the bean CL only has references to EJBs, it delegates the loadClass() to its parent class loader, which is in fact the Phoenix class loader. as shown above that CL contains the EJB interfaces. Allthough i am getting the following error message while starting the avalon block for OpenEJB. -------8<-------------8<------------8<------------8<------- Root cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/EntityBean at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:246) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:54) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:193) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:262) at org.openejb.util.SafeToolkit.loadClass(SafeToolkit.java:222) ------->8------------->8------------>8------------>8------- any ideas on what is going wrong? 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