Admin.jar deploy error

Question

I am using OC4J standalone version 9.0.3 on Windows 2000. I played around a little with the admin.jar deploy tools but I could not get it to work. The application runs fine if I edit the configuration files manually (but it seems like it would be nice to get the deploy tool to do the job for me).
Here is my information (some names have been changed to protect the innocent):
I am running the command:
java -jar admin.jar ormi://localhost:23791 admin <pwd> -deploy -file D:\dist\MyApp.ear -deploymentName MyAppHere is the error I get:
Fatal Error: Unable to find/read assembly info for C:\oracle\ora81\j2ee\home\applications\MyApp/log4j-1.2.7.jar (META-INF/ejb-jar.xml)
Auto-unpacking C:\oracle\ora81\j2ee\home\applications\MyApp.ear... done.
Auto-unpacking C:\oracle\ora81\j2ee\home\applications\MyApp\MyApp.war... done.
Auto-deploying MyApp (Assembly had been updated)...
com.evermind.server.ConfigFileNotFoundException: Unable to find/read assembly info for C:\oracle\ora81\j2ee\home\applications\MyApp/log4j-1.2.7.jar (META-INF/ejb-jar.xml)
at com.evermind.server.ServerComponent.init(ServerComponent.java:238)
at com.evermind.server.ejb.EJBPackageDeployment.getPackage(EJBPackageDeployment.java:672)
at com.evermind.server.administration.ServerApplicationInstallation.finish(ServerApplicationInstallation.java:517)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMICallHandler.run(RMICallHandler.java:119)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMICallHandler.run(RMICallHandler.java:48)
at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run(PooledExecutor.java:803)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
hmmmm...log4j-1.2.7.jar is not an ejb so of course it does not have an ejb-jar.xml file. I am definitely not a J2EE deployment guru, but I feel well read up on the topic.
Here is the structure of my ear file:
META-INF/application.xml
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
commons-logging.jar
log4j-1.2.7.jar
MyApp.war
MyAppEjb.jar
MyAppUtil.jar
tl_core.jar
tl_tools.jar
Here is the content of the ear's META-INF/application.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd'>
<application>
<display-name>MyApp</display-name>
<module>
<ejb>MyAppEjb.jar</ejb>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>MyApp.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/MyApp</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
Here is the content of the MyAppEjb.jar's meta-inf/Manifest.mf (that is the case of the directory and file in the jar file, does that make a difference?):
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Apache Ant 1.5
Class-Path: MyAppUtil.jar commons-logging.jar log4j-1.2.7.jar tl_tools.jar tl_core.jar
Any tips on getting this working would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brent

Answer 1

I was just about to write and tell you that we make use of BCEL now, and given this line in the stacktrace:
05/01/31 15:06:23 Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.Type.getType(Ljava/lang/Class;)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;
it appears as if there's a version mismatch somewhere along the line.
But you've already sorted it out yourself, thanks for the repost!
-steve-