No web-app element when geronimo-web.xml contains other root element --------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: GERONIMO-3958 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3958 Project: Geronimo Issue Type: Improvement Security Level: public (Regular issues) Components: deployment, web Affects Versions: 2.1 Reporter: Jacek Laskowski Tried to deploy a webapp with geronimo-web.xml that contained some other root element than web-app and kept getting the bizzare (and very user-unfriendly) error message: No web-app element org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: No web-app element at org.apache.geronimo.web.deployment.GenericToSpecificPlanConverter.convertToSpecificPlan(GenericToSpecificPlanConverter.java:127) at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.getJettyWebApp(JettyModuleBuilder.java:330) at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.createModule(JettyModuleBuilder.java:252) at org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.createModule(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:183) at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.SwitchingModuleBuilder.createModule(SwitchingModuleBuilder.java:144) at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.addModules(EARConfigBuilder.java:873) at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getEarPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:402) at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getDeploymentPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:295) at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:226) at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:133) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:867) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239) at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.AbstractDeployCommand.doDeploy(AbstractDeployCommand.java:116) at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.DistributeCommand.run(DistributeCommand.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Couldn't figure out what was wrong until I looked at the source code and found I had "correupted" geronimo-web.xml. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.