java.io.IOException: org.apache.xml.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler when deploying into Glassfish 2.1

[ernest fakudze]

Hi folks,

I have 2 war files which use Spring web services. When I deploy them into Tomcat 5.5 they work fine. However, in Glassfish one of them fails to work. I get the stack trace below. Some discussions on this problem seem to suggest that the xalan classes are interfering with each other but I have not been able to fix it. Any thoughts?

  java.io.IOException: org.apache.xml.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler
	at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.EnvelopeImpl.output(EnvelopeImpl.java:329)
	at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.EnvelopeImpl.output(EnvelopeImpl.java:340)
	at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPPartImpl.getContentAsStream(SOAPPartImpl.java:336)
	at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.getHeaderBytes(MessageImpl.java:979)
	at com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.saveChanges(MessageImpl.java:1130)
	at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.Saaj13Implementation.writeTo(Saaj13Implementation.java:259)
	at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.writeTo(SaajSoapMessage.java:105)
	at org.springframework.ws.transport.AbstractWebServiceConnection.send(AbstractWebServiceConnection.java:36)
	at org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handleConnection(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:96)
	at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:57)
	at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.doService(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:158)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:754)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:427)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:333)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:265)
	at org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:107)
	at org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:72)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:124)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.wrapper.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:81)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilter(LogoutFilter.java:110)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:275)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:149)
	at org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy.doFilter(FilterToBeanProxy.java:98)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:246)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:246)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:96)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:246)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:313)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:287)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:218)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:98)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:222)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1096)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:166)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1096)
	at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:288)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:647)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:579)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:831)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:341)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:263)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:214)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:265)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106)  

[ernest fakudze]

Hello,

I have sorted the problem out. This is what was happening: Glassfish has a jar called "webservices-rt.jar" and it contains some of the SOAP stuff. Furthermore, it loads this jar first which means that any subsequest classes that need the classes found in "webservices-rt.jar" then use the already loaded jar classes. In my apps I have "saaj-api-1.3.jar" and "saaj-impl-1.3.jar". I traced the classloader issue by enabling the JVM option -verbose:class and when I made a webservice request in my app I saw something like

  
[Loaded com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.HeaderImpl from file:/C:/apps/glassfish/lib/webservices-rt.jar]
[Loaded com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.Header1_1Impl from file:/C:/apps/glassfish/lib/webservices-rt.jar]
  

I then appended my jars to the server Pre classpath and it now works. So as you can see I've been to Jar Hell and back ;) Happy coding!!