Error with taglib during portlet deployment.

[sam White]

Hello,

I have further fixed the problem I got previously, and now there is a new error exception when I was deploying the Spring (3.0) war file to Liferay.
Environment: Liferay 5.2.8 EE SP4, Tomcat 6.0.18, Mysql 5.5.1, FreeBSD 8.1, AMD64, 8GB Ram.
Project: Spring 3.0, Maven.

Here is the complete log (included error) during deployment:

2011-07-01 06:58:58,399 [INFO ] [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir - Processing spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war 
2011-07-01 06:58:58,399 [INFO ] [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner] com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.PortletAutoDeployListener - Copying portlets for /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/deploy/spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war 
  Expanding: /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/deploy/spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war into /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/tomcat/temp/20110701065858399
  Copying 1 file to /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/tomcat/temp/20110701065858399/WEB-INF/classes
  Warning: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF modified in the future.
  Warning: META-INF/maven/spring-portlet-sample/spring-portlet-sample/pom.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/Language-ext.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/books-portlet.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/books-portlet_de.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/domain/Book.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/domain/BookValidator.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/portlet/BooksController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/portlet/MyBooksController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/service/BookService.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/service/BookServiceImpl.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/servlet/BookDisplayCoverController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/images/headcrash.png modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/images/neuromancer.png modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/images/signaltonoise.png modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/images/snowcrash.png modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/log4j.dtd modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/messages.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/messages_de.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/myBooks-portlet.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/myBooks-portlet_de.properties modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet/extras/AddBookController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet/extras/AddBookValidator.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet/extras/EditBookController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet/extras/EditBookValidator.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet/extras/RemoveBookController.class modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/context/portlet/books.xml modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/context/portlet/myBooks.xml modified in the future.
  Warning: META-INF modified in the future.
  Warning: META-INF/maven modified in the future.
  Warning: META-INF/maven/spring-portlet-sample modified in the future.
  Warning: META-INF/maven/spring-portlet-sample/spring-portlet-sample modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/com/myspring/servlet modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/classes/sample/portlet modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/tags modified in the future.
  Warning: WEB-INF/tags/html modified in the future.
  Copying 84 files to /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/tomcat/webapps/spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  Copying 1 file to /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/tomcat/webapps/spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  Deleting directory /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/tomcat/temp/20110701065858399
2011-07-01 06:58:58,608 [INFO ] [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner] com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.PortletAutoDeployListener - Portlets for /usr/home/liferay/ixsystems_portal/liferay-portal-5.2-ee-sp4/deploy/spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war copied successfully. Deployment will start in a few seconds. 
2011-07-01 06:59:05,302 [INFO ] [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener - Registering portlets for spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT 
2011-07-01 06:59:05,475 [ERROR] [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil - com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployException: Error registering portlets for spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT 
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployException: Error registering portlets for spring-portlet-sample-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.BaseHotDeployListener.throwHotDeployException(BaseHotDeployListener.java:48)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:121)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil._doFireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:104)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil._fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:149)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:35)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PortletContextListener.portalInit(PortletContextListener.java:104)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalInitableUtil.init(PortalInitableUtil.java:39)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PortletContextListener.contextInitialized(PortletContextListener.java:100)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:926)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:889)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1217)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:293)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1337)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItemFactory
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1836)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.determineCandidateConstructors(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:228)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.determineConstructorsFromBeanPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:930)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:903)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:580)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:425)
        at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.createPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:356)
        at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:294)
        at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletBean(FrameworkPortlet.java:268)
        at org.springframework.web.portlet.GenericPortletBean.init(GenericPortletBean.java:116)
        at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.init(GenericPortlet.java:107)
        at com.liferay.portlet.InvokerPortletImpl.init(InvokerPortletImpl.java:246)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.init(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:216)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.create(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:125)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.create(PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.java:38)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.initPortlet(PortletHotDeployListener.java:661)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.doInvokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:239)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:118)

2011-07-01 06:59:47,475 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory - Portlet myBooks_WAR_springportletsample100SNAPSHOT has a null portlet bag 
2011-07-01 06:59:47,478 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag - Current URL /c/portal/render_portlet generates exception: java.lang.NullPointerException 
2011-07-01 06:59:47,480 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag - java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory._create(PortletContextFactory.java:84)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory.create(PortletContextFactory.java:43)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletConfigFactory._create(PortletConfigFactory.java:64)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletConfigFactory.create(PortletConfigFactory.java:37)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:630)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:535)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:472)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:66)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)

2011-07-01 06:59:47,475 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory - Portlet myBooks_WAR_springportletsample100SNAPSHOT has a null portlet bag 
2011-07-01 06:59:47,478 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag - Current URL /c/portal/render_portlet generates exception: java.lang.NullPointerException 
2011-07-01 06:59:47,480 [ERROR] [http-80-exec-4] com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag - java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory._create(PortletContextFactory.java:84)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletContextFactory.create(PortletContextFactory.java:43)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletConfigFactory._create(PortletConfigFactory.java:64)
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletConfigFactory.create(PortletConfigFactory.java:37)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:630)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:535)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:472)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:66)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)

What might have gone wrong in my project configuration file?

Thank you in advance for any help
Thanks
Sam

[Jaime Bravo]

It seems like the 'commons upload' library is not in the classplath or a version conflict prevents it works. So that dependency is causing problems to the autowire facility in your spring app.
regards!

[sam White]

Hi,

I 've got that resolved by executing the deployment in 3 steps:

1. copy the war file to a user home directory rather than liferay's deploy directory in the remote server where my application/liferay portal is running.
2. cd to liferay's deploy directory.
3. cp ~/my.war .

Thanks
Sam