i've had trouble with jboss 2.2.2/tomcat 3.2.2...for this reason i dropped
back to the 2.2.1/3.2.1 version and everything worked fine...
in my experimentation, it seems to be a classloader issue...any classes you
want to access from another class must be either on the same level, or
higher in your classpath...if a .jar file that is located in the
jboss/lib/ext directory is accessing a struts class or action class that is
in your WEB-INF/lib/this.jar file, then it will give you this message...
it's been a real pain :-)
Jon Brisbin
Lamar, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: ecn11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Struts + JBoss
> Hi.
>
> Has anyone of you managed to make Struts and JBoss working together?
>
> This is my current situation: I use JBoss-2.2.2 + Tomcat-3.2.2 (by
> run_with_tomcat.bat - so they are running in one VM) and Struts 1.0.
>
>
> The problem is briefly: When I deploy a .ear-archive that contains a
> .war-archive with the classes Struts should use (e.g. the form and
> action-classes), it throws an exception:
>
> javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Exception creating bean of class
> <path>/DetailsForm: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: <path>/DetailsForm
> at
> org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.doStartTag(FormTag.java:568)
>
> These are the lines of the Struts source-code where the exception is
thrown:
> try {
> Class clazz = Class.forName(type);
> bean = clazz.newInstance();
> if (bean instanceof ActionForm)
> ((ActionForm) bean).setServlet(servlet);
> } catch (Exception e) {
> throw new JspException
> (messages.getMessage("formTag.create", type,
> e.toString()));
> }
>
>
> The reason I blame Struts for that is the following:
> When I try to instanciate DetailsForm manually from the .jsp-page there is
> absolutely no problem. But Struts seems to use another classpath.
>
>
> Using the same .jsp-pages/classes/struts-config.xml/web.xml with Tomcat
and
> J2EE-reference implementation works fine. - So I can say for sure that
> struts-config.xml and web.xml okay.
>
>
> This is the way the .ear-File looks like:
>
> .ear
> META-INF\
> sun-j2ee-ri.xml, Manifest.mf, application.xml
> war-ic.war
> lots of stuff
> WEB-INF\
> web.xml, struts-*.tld, struts-config.xml, global.properties
> classes\
> Resources.properties
> all my classes
> ejb-jar-ic.jar
> the beans (they work fine)
>
>
> I once tried to add the .class-files manually to the classpath (not the
ones
> that are created by jboss, when I deploy the .ear, but the .class-files,
> that I built before building the .ear-file).
>
> After that Struts was able to find the classes, but my classpath was
> completely messed up. The global.properties for example (which is
accessible
> via InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/global.properties")
> normally) was not found any more.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dominic
