Charles, According to the stack trace you posted, the error occurs inside a thread that is neither managed by the servlet container, nor by Axis2:
13:38:58 DEBUG- Stack trace: org.omg.CORBA.INITIALIZE: can't instantiate default ORB implementation org.jacorb.orb.ORB vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 completed: No at org.omg.CORBA.ORB.create_impl(ORB.java:297) at org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init(ORB.java:336) at client.corba.BaseCORBAApp.initCORBA(BaseCORBAApp.java:134) at client.corba.BaseCORBAService.startService(BaseCORBAService.java:100) at client.project.dcol.publish.corba.WebServiceDataCollectionService.webInit(WebServiceDataCollectionService.java:170) at client.project.dcol.GDPI.ServiceBase$ServiceThread.run(ServiceBase.java:318) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) How and where is this thread created? Andreas On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 20:23, Charles Galpin <cgal...@lhsw.com> wrote: > Thanks Andreas > > I added this to both services being loaded, rebuilt and ran, but no change. > > The composite class loader was one of the options described in Amil's blog > and as I understand it, it is supposed to use both the TCCL and the service > class loader. But I guess I still don't understand the class loading because > this jar is in all the places the class loaders should be looking so I don't > see how it matters which one it uses. > > I also tried the "EnableChildFirstClassLoading" parameter as well but no help. > > Thanks, > charles > > On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Andreas Veithen wrote: > >> Try adding the following parameter on the service: >> >> <parameter name="ServiceTCCL" locked="false">composite</parameter> >> >> Andreas >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 18:22, Charles Galpin <cgal...@lhsw.com> wrote: >>> Hi All >>> I am still running into problems with this. I previously moved all the jars >>> I needed into the WEB-INF/lib directory and was able to continue working. >>> But as I add more services (more .aar files) I am now running into strange >>> unpredictable differences that I do not understand. >>> For example, I have two services packaged in their own .aar files and if >>> deployed independently they run just fine. Simply deploying both together >>> causes the second one loaded to have mysterious problems like a >>> java.sql.SQLException "no suitable driver found for jdbc:sqlserver://.." >>> when the sql3jdbc jar file is in both the .aar and WEB-INF/lib directory and >>> (and as I said works fine standalone). >>> Does anyone have any advice on how to get my services to run together >>> happily? Assume I am not concerned with isolating each service from each >>> other in terms of security. I read on Amila's blog that some class loading >>> settings can be modified but it's not clear exactly what ramifications it >>> will have or if it will even help my problems. >>> I am not sure if this is causing my problems, but due to wanting to be able >>> to override the properties file in the .aar file when deployed in different >>> environments, in the service lifecycle init method I attempt to find the >>> properties file in the axis classpath before trying the .arr, using first >>> axisService.getClass().getClassLoader(0.gerResourceAsStream(propsFilename); >>> and if not found then using >>> this.getClass().getClassLoader(0.gerResourceAsStream(propsFilename); >>> Could this be messing up the class loading sequence, and if yes, how can I >>> achieve the same effect without using the axis class loader first? >>> thanks, >>> charles >>> On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Charles Galpin wrote: >>> >>> Hi Sameera >>> Ok, this is starting to make a little more sense. I was not aware the >>> WebappClassLoader could not see classes in the .aar. Can this be changed? >>> I have access to the source of the client.corba.* packages, but they are >>> just calling org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init which is doing the class loading and >>> thats from rt.jar in the java distro afaik. The ORB loaded is a configurable >>> option which is why it uses the class loader. >>> Here is another exception stack you may find useful. I had run into this >>> problem as well as various other classes not loading a while ago and made a >>> few changes until getting my service working, and one of them was to pass >>> -Djava.library.path="%PATH%;blahblah" in on the commandline when starting >>> tomcat. Removing this changes the error to a perhaps little more revealing >>> message (after understanding about the TCCL limitation) >>> 13:38:58 ERROR- Error initializing CORBA ORB. Unexpected CORBA error. >>> org.omg.CORBA.INITIALIZE: can't instantiate default ORB implementation >>> org.jacorb.orb.ORB vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 completed: No >>> 13:38:58 DEBUG- Stack trace: org.omg.CORBA.INITIALIZE: can't instantiate >>> default ORB implementation org.jacorb.orb.ORB vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 >>> completed: No >>> at org.omg.CORBA.ORB.create_impl(ORB.java:297) >>> at org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init(ORB.java:336) >>> at client.corba.BaseCORBAApp.initCORBA(BaseCORBAApp.java:134) >>> at >>> client.corba.BaseCORBAService.startService(BaseCORBAService.java:100) >>> at >>> client.project.dcol.publish.corba.WebServiceDataCollectionService.webInit(WebServiceDataCollectionService.java:170) >>> at >>> client.project.dcol.GDPI.ServiceBase$ServiceThread.run(ServiceBase.java:318) >>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) >>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jacorb.orb.ORB >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233) >>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) >>> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) >>> at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) >>> at org.omg.CORBA.ORB.create_impl(ORB.java:295) >>> ... 6 more >>> 13:38:58 ERROR- Aborted due to startup failure. >>> Aborted due to startup failure: Error initializing CORBA ORB. Unexpected >>> CORBA error. >>> Is there any other way to work around this other than putting the libraries >>> in the axis2/WEB-INF/lib directory? To be clear I have other problems beside >>> this. A good example is we have a custom log4j appender we use which is in >>> Shared.jar. This cannot be found either unless it's in axis2/WEB-INF/lib but >>> your description explains that one too. >>> thanks, >>> charles >>> On Dec 1, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Sameera Jayasoma wrote: >>> >>> Hi Charles >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Charles Galpin <cgal...@lhsw.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Sameera >>>> >>>> Yes this is what is happening and what is expected. The >>>> org.omg.CosNotifyFilter.InvalidGrammar class is in jacorb.jar which is in >>>> the .aar lib directory. What am I missing? Are you saying it should not be >>>> in the thread context class loader? >>> >>> The class BaseCORBAApp is trying to loadInvalidGrammar class from the TCCL >>> and in this scenario TCCL is set to the WebappClassLoader. Classes in your >>> aar lib folder cannot be seen by the WebappClassLoader. It can only see the >>> classes in axis2/WEB-INF/lib folder or in the application classpath >>> tomcat/lib. That is things work nicely when you put jacob.jar to >>> axis2/WEB-INF/lib. >>> >>> Do you have access to sources of the classes in client.corba.* packages. >>> >>> Thanks >>> sameera >>> >>>> >>>> On Dec 1, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Sameera Jayasoma wrote: >>>> >>>>> It seems that "BaseCORBAApp" class is trying to load >>>>> "org.omg.CosNotifyFilter.InvalidGrammar" from the thread context class >>>>> loader. That is why you see following lines in the exception log. >>>>> >>>>> at >>>>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387) >>>>> at >>>>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233) >>>>> >>>>> This is a usual practice of loading application libraries. If you have >>>>> access to the source code of client.corba classes, you can verify this. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Sameera >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks Olindo, but the first error (see the bottom of the trace) is >>>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException which I believe is the root cause. I have >>>> checked and jacorb.jar is not in the path or classpath. >>>> >>>> On Dec 1, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Olindo Pindaro wrote: >>>> >>>>> The exception isn't "ClassNotFound" but "NoClassDefFoundError", that in >>>>> my experience is caused by conflit in differente version of library >>>>> present >>>>> in compiler path and classloaderpath. >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> charles >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sameera Jayasoma >>> Software Engineer >>> WSO2 Inc. >>> Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. >>> http://wso2.org/ >>> >>> blog: http://tech.jayasoma.org >>> >>> >>> > >