Error during JBoss startup

[Greg Akins]

I'm getting an error while starting JBoss 4.2.3 and am not sure how to troubleshoot from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jboss 4.2.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 using Java 1.5. I've included Jbossws-native as well.

I have run Jboss successfully with my ear file deployed in server/default

My application requires javax.xml.rpc.Service. Under JBoss 4.2.0, I used axis11.jar, but I'm not having luck deploying that under JBoss 4.2.3, and from a Google search it appears I should move to JBossWS.

So, I included jboss-jaxrpc.jar which includes the class I need. Then I started getting subsequent NoClassDefFoundErrors. I also included jboss-commons.jar

My classpath is listed below.

The error I'm at now is listed in the stacktrace below. Note that it doesn't tell me what class it's not finding.

07:34:40,147 INFO  [Server] Core system initialized
07:34:40,239 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
	at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:623)
	at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:181)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:872)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:809)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:766)
	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.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
	at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
	at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:482)
	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:362)
	at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:200)
	at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:508)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Failed to boot JBoss:
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not initialise deployment: file:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml; - nested throwable: (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError)
	at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:53)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:814)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:766)
	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.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
	at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
	at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:482)
	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:362)
	at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:200)
	at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:508)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
	at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:623)
	at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:181)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:872)
	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:809)
	... 18 more
07:34:40,249 INFO  [Server] Runtime shutdown hook called, forceHalt: true
07:34:40,250 INFO  [Server] JBoss SHUTDOWN: Undeploying all packages
07:34:40,254 INFO  [Server] Shutdown complete
Shutdown complete
Halting VM

CLASSPATH: :/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/log4j.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/lib/jboss-common.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/servlet-api.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/activation.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/mail.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/mail-plugin.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/jboss-jaxrpc.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/tc/commons-fileupload-1.2.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/tc/mysql-connector-java-3.0.15-ga-bin.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/lib/tc/pri.jar:/towercare/jboss-4.2.3.GA/bin/run.jar

[Skanda Raman]

try to upgrade jdk to 1.6 and try..I believe it will work fine.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Did you manually set that CLASSPATH in the run.bat/run.sh script file? If yes, then do not do that. Instead package the required jar files in your application's lib folder (.ear/lib) and they will be available in the classpath.