META-INF/context.xml, Tomcat, META-INF/services

I presently have a Netbeans project laid out like this:
src
src\java
web
web\META-INF
web\META-INF\context.xml
etc. Tomcat finds that META-INF/context.xml OK and does what I expect with it.
I have recently added something that is loaded by java.util.ServiceLoader, which requires a META-INF/services/x.y.z file containing the name(s) of the classes that implement x.y.z. After deployment, my webapp's ServiceLoader doesn't find it, because in the target it isn't in WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services/x.y.z. If I put it into src/java/META-INF/services/x.y.z it works correctly, as it then ends up in the right place. However I'm now concerned that either Tomcat won't find the context.xml if I put it in the same place under src, because it would then not be in /META-INF/context.xml but rather /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/context.xml, which in turn would mean that I would then need two META-INF directories. I'm about to test that conjecture about Tomcat finding it under WEB-INF/classes/META-INF, but I'm wondering whether I'm doing something basically wrong in the first place here.

You seem to think that you can have only one META-INF directory; this is simply not true. Keep both your META-INF directories and put the files where they are expected. Yay for using overlapping names :/

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Where to place /META-INF/context.xml ?

Hi,
Apologies, but this is a newbie question. In the tomcat docs, it states that
"A /META-INF/context.xml file can be used to define Tomcat specific configuration..."
Could you please tell me where /META-INF/context.xml is placed relative to web application root? In other words, if I have a web application in a directory /MyWebApp, should the /META-INF dir be in /MyWebApp/META-INF or should it be under /WEB-INF?
Thanks.
Ben

You seem to think that you can have only one META-INF directory; this is simply not true. Keep both your META-INF directories and put the files where they are expected. Yay for using overlapping names :/

Tomcat 5.5 context.xml, how to configure the Host element

[Probably this question should be asked elsewhere, if so please advise]
Dear all,
I understand that Tomcat 5.5 prefers that your web application comes with a context.xml file under the META-INF folder.
So I added a context.xml file under the META-INF folder of my web application,
please have a look below.
context.xml
<Context path="" docBase="C://Program Files//Apache Software Foundation//Tomcat 5.5//webapps//test">
 <Resource
 name="jdbc/testDB"
 factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
 auth="Container"
 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
 maxActive="10"
 maxIdle="5"
 maxWait="10000"
 removeAbandoned="true"
 removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
 logAbandoned="true"
 username="username"
 password="password"
 driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
 url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test" />
</Context> Ok, that is good so far, but how do I configure the Host element.
I mean how do you link a specific Host to a specific Context?
Before, the Context element was a sub element of the Host element,
now it is completely separated.
Host in server.xml
<Host name="www.test.com" deployOnStartup="true" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
 <Valve
 className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve"
 prefix="test_access_log."
 suffix=".txt"
 pattern="common"
 directory="C://Program Files//Apache Software Foundation//Tomcat 5.5//webapps//test//logs"/>
</Host> I assume that if I modify the appBase of the Host element from webapps to webapps/test then it would work, but if I have several
Contexts for the specific Host, how should I configure it then?
Please help by giving examples!

OK, I have changed the Host's appbase to webapps/mytestapplication.
I want to deploy a test.war under the appbase:
webapps/mytestapplication/test.war
The name of the host is www.test.com
Because the war file is not named ROOT.war (instead it is named test.war),
the URL to the test application would be www.test.com/test.
Now I have several relative anchor links in the test application
Say for example the test application is deployed and accessed through www.test.com/test.
Clicking on the aboutus link would change to URL to www.test.com/aboutus.html.
Instead, for this to work, the URL must be www.test.com/test/aboutus.html.
Obviously, the easiest solution is to add /test before each anchor link:
But the there must a different solution.
Adding a path to Context element did not work:
<Context path="/test" ...>
</Context>
Question:
1. what is the solution for the anchor scenario above, should I add /test before each link?
2. Is my configuration (can be seen at the bottom) correct?
Basically, I have removed the path and docBase attributes from the Context element.
I have also set autoDeploy to false in the Host element.
Here are a few paragraphs from the docs:
autoDeploy attribute of Host element:
"Finally, note that if you are defining contexts explicitly,
you should probably turn off automatic application deployment.
Otherwise, your context will be deployed twice each, and that may cause problems for your app."
OK, so I set autoDeploy to false since I am defining contexts explicitly, (META-INF/context.xml)
docBase attribute of Context element:
The value of this field must not be set when the Context
is configured using a META-INF/context.xml file as it will be inferred by the automatic deployment process.
So, I remove the docBase attribute eventhough I am confused a bit.
This is the part that confuses me:
If autoDeploy is set to false since I am defining contexts explicitly,
how can then anything be inferred by the automatic
deployment process? (please answer!)
There should not be any automatic deployment process when autoDeploy is set to false.
path attribute of Context element:
The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml,
as it will be inferred from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.
Same as the Context element.
Thanks!
<Context>
 <Resource
 name="jdbc/testDB"
 factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
 auth="Container"
 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
 maxActive="10"
 maxIdle="5"
 maxWait="10000"
 removeAbandoned="true"
 removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
 logAbandoned="true"
 username="username"
 password="password"
 driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
 url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test" />
</Context>
<Host name="www.test.com" deployOnStartup="true" debug="0" appBase="webapps/mytestapplication" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
 <Valve
 className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve"
 prefix="test_access_log."
 suffix=".txt"
 pattern="common"
 directory="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/mytestapplication/test/logs"/>
</Host>

WAR Deployment Problem (WEB-INF/web.xml not found)

 I have a war application and WebLogic 5.1 with Svr Pack 8 failed to deploy it
 when it start up. Here is what I did,
 1. I jared all necessary files including WEB-INF\web.xml in the myapp.war file;
 here I used all uppercase for WEB-INF directory, but after I jared it, it shew
 up web-inf\web.xml but WEB-INF\lib\pushlet.jar in the myapp.war file. I think
 this is the behavior of jar program.
 2. I appended the myapp.war to the weblogicclasspath in the start script;
 3. In weblogic.properties file, I specified two lines:
 weblogic.httpd.webApp.myapp=c:/weblogic/default/myapp.war
 weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=myapp
 4. Then I start up the WebLogic server named "default". It shew the following
 error messages:
 java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory myapp\ does not contain WEB-INF/web.x
 ml
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
 .java:177)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:630)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:558)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 Thu Mar 29 17:24:16 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> FATAL: could not load WAR 'myapp' as d
 efault servlet context
 java.lang.NullPointerException
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:560)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 Thu Mar 29 17:24:17 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> Could not find Web application 'c:/weblo
 gic/default/myapp.war'
 java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in jar file
 at weblogic.xml.dom.DOMParser.getDocument(DOMParser.java:93)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
 .java:134)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:627)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:602)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:570)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 Please help me find out what is wrong with this. Greatly Appreciated.
 Thanks in advance,
 Donald


 If it is still not working, try to set the weblogic.httpd.documentRoot =c:/weblogic/default
 in the weblogic.properties & try.
 "Donald Ye" <[email protected]> wrote:
 >
 >
 >I have a war application and WebLogic 5.1 with Svr Pack 8 failed to deploy
 >it
 >when it start up. Here is what I did,
 >
 >1. I jared all necessary files including WEB-INF\web.xml in the myapp.war
 >file;
 >here I used all uppercase for WEB-INF directory, but after I jared it,
 >it shew
 >up web-inf\web.xml but WEB-INF\lib\pushlet.jar in the myapp.war file.
 >I think
 >this is the behavior of jar program.
 >
 >2. I appended the myapp.war to the weblogicclasspath in the start script;
 >
 >3. In weblogic.properties file, I specified two lines:
 >weblogic.httpd.webApp.myapp=c:/weblogic/default/myapp.war
 >weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=myapp
 >
 >4. Then I start up the WebLogic server named "default". It shew the following
 >error messages:
 >
 >java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory myapp\ does not contain WEB-INF/web.x
 >ml
 > at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
 >.java:177)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:630)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:558)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 >
 >Thu Mar 29 17:24:16 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> FATAL: could not load WAR 'myapp'
 >as d
 >efault servlet context
 >java.lang.NullPointerException
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:560)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 >
 >Thu Mar 29 17:24:17 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> Could not find Web application
 >'c:/weblo
 >gic/default/myapp.war'
 >java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in
 >jar file
 > at weblogic.xml.dom.DOMParser.getDocument(DOMParser.java:93)
 > at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
 >.java:134)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:627)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:602)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:570)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
 > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
 > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
 > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
 >
 >
 >Please help me find out what is wrong with this. Greatly Appreciated.
 >
 >Thanks in advance,
 >
 >Donald

Data source needs to be specified in context.xml instead of web.xml - why?

Hi,
I'm using a Spring JndiObjectFactoryBean to create my JNDI data source in my code:
<bean id="jndiDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean" lazy-init="true">
 <property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/DS_OURDB_DB2" />
 <property name="lookupOnStartup" value="false"/>
 <property name="proxyInterface" value="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
 </bean>I have the necessary Resource added to my Tomcat's server.xml:
<Resource accessToUnderlyingConnectionAllowed="false"
 defaultAutoCommit="true" defaultReadOnly="false"
 driverClassName="com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver"
 factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
 initialSize="0" logAbandoned="false" maxActive="8"
 maxIdle="8" maxOpenPreparedStatements="0" maxWait="-1"
 minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="1800000" minIdle="0"
 name="jdbc/DS_OURDB_DB2" numTestsPerEvictionRun="3"
 password="ourpass" poolPreparedStatements="false"
 removeAbandoned="false" removeAbandonedTimeout="300"
 testOnBorrow="true" testOnReturn="false"
 testWhileIdle="false" timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="-1"
 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
 url="jdbc:db2://machine1:60056/DBD1" username="ouruser"
 validationQuery="SELECT current date FROM sysibm.sysdummy1"/>I then have the resource referenced in my web.xml:
<resource-ref>
 <res-ref-name>jdbc/DS_OURDB_DB2</res-ref-name>
 <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
 <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
 <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope>
 </resource-ref>However, I'm getting JndiLookupFailureExceptions when I attempt to use this JNDI resource.
I can resolve it by specifying the following in my META-INF/context.xml:
<Context>
 <ResourceLink global="jdbc/DS_OURDB_DB2" name="jdbc/DS_OURDB_DB2" type="javax.sql.Datasource"/>
</Context>I've read some of the JNDI/Tomcat documentation. However, I still do not understand why it doesn't work with the web.xml. Can anyone explain please? Thanks

Can answer this myself after some more investigation. The reason I required the entry in the META-INF/context.xml was because I had specified the Resource as a Global Reference in the server.xml. By adding this Resource to my application's Context in the server.xml the configuration in the web.xml worked as expected.

Remove default context in Tomcat 5.5

Hi
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the default context in Tomcat 5.5 (Linux)? I want to make my own webapp the default context (which is easy in all previous releases) but no matter what I try, it doesn't work. I've tried editing:
1) conf/server.xml
2) conf/web.xml
3) conf/Catalina/localhost/<various>
3) <myApp>/META-INF/context.xml
But I can't even make the default context 'stop', let alone make my app take over as the default. If someone could assume it's a fresh installation, "out of the box" as it were, and tell me how to get rid of it, I'd be really grateful
Thanks!

Ok, I thought that link looked familiar, but it still doesn't help..
Here is my <context>.. this works perfectly under 5.0 as a separate xml file in the catalina/localhost folder, but under 5.5, I can only get this context to load by adding it directly to the server.xml...
 <Context path="" docBase="D:\dev\Projects\newk00l\website\games\" reloadable="true" crossContext="false">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="localhost_k00l_log." suffix=".txt"
 timestamp="true"/>
<Resource name="jdbc/netk00lextreme" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/k00l_extreme?autoReconnect=true"
username="myusername" password="mypassword" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1"/>
 </Context>

Context.xml question , Thanks

Hi, developers:
I would like to connect to another server using context.xml. I did like the following link: < a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html"> link to instruction</a>
In the "JDBC Data Source" :4 Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory part said a Context.xml tshould be stored in the META-INF directory .
My problem is:
1) where is /META-INF so I can find the contect.xml. I using tomcat5.5 and find only at Tomcat5.5\conf\context.xml?
2) When I restart with my context.xml below, the tomcat can start but application can NOT.
Error msd: Http status 404 : The requested resource (/account App) is not available.
code of context.xml is:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context displayName="account" path="/accountApp" debug="0" reloadable="true" docBase="serverdb">
<Resource name="jdbc/dbinstance" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@//dburl:1522/"
username="accuser"
password="accpw"
maxActive="20"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="120000"
removeAbandoned="true"
logAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout="300"
testOnBorrow="true"
testOnReturn="true"
validationQuery="select 1 from dual" />
</Context>
is some one can give me a help to solve it. Thanks in advance

The "context" here is an artifact of the way that Tomcat works. It contains deployment information - the path to the application files, the JNDI mappings and various other bits and pieces.
The "context" of a web application is the path to which it is deployed within the application server. An application deployed to a context called "foo" would probably be accessed by the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/foo/And the application files would probably be stored somewhere like this:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\fooTomcat keeps its context information EITHER in a file called server.xml or in a seperate file named after the application's context. So typically it will be in one of these files (for our "foo" application):
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf\server.xml
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\localhost\foo.xmlYou can create the entry in one of several ways:
1. Edit server.xml manually
2. Edit foo.xml manually
3. Use an application such as the admin webapp to deploy your application
4. Include a Context.xml file in the META-INF directory of the application
The last option allows you to specify the default values that you want the application to take up when you deploy it to Tomcat. This saves time during development, but may cause problems for your clients when they come to deploy the application themselves.
It is this last file that you seem to be talking about. You would normally create it as a directory and file within the source directory for your application, from which you build and deploy a WAR file. For example, you might build the following files and directories into foo.war:
C:\dev\foo\index.jsp
C:\dev\foo\WEB-INF\web.xml
C:\dev\foo\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
C:\dev\foo\META-INF\Context.xml
This would be built to a WAR file called foo.war that represents a Zip of the contents of the C:\dev\foo directory. Deploying this will cause Tomcat to notice Context.xml and extract its contents into the conf/Catalina/localhost directory as foo.xml

Beginner Q: Which context.xml to place the DataSource setup?

I am following this tutorial to use DataSource to access the database. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
I originally place the Resource specificaiton in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/context.xml. My demo app works fine. I then experiment to move that section to My_App/Meta-inf/context.xml. Later, I need to uninstall and re-install Java and Tomcat. Then I run into to the problem in my demo http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5299262
I finally restore the resource section in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/context.xml to make my demo working again. From this explaination of Context (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html), my understanding is that placing the resource in My_App/Meta-inf/context.xml should be better for deployment purpose. I am not understanding the need to placing resource in conf/context.xml.
Is there any tutorial that will explain this context concept? I would like to see different setup in the path and docbase.

eventhough it's working fine. I may have deployment problem. Anyway thanks for the reply.
Regards,
Ram

Context.xml questin

Hello!
Where the context.xml (tomcat) file should be, in catalina_home or in catalina_base?
Thanks.

Both, but wrong forum and off topic for the site. Try the Tomcat documentation.

ERROR ITMS-9000: "META-INF/container.xml must contain one and only one root file reference."

Hi all,
After correcting a table-of-contents error in my .epub file, I am unable to upload it via iTunes Producer. It lists this error message:
ERROR ITMS-9000: "META-INF/container.xml in 9780615431727.epub must contain one and only one root file reference." at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)
The file has been verified and only has one root file reference in the container.xml file.
Has anyone been able to find a solution to this problem?
Thanks!

Hello Forum Users…
For those of you who have run into the upload roadblock, getting an error message similar to this:
Package Summary:
1 package(s) were not uploaded because they had problems:
          /Users/slm/Desktop/MUSIC to PICTURE for IBOOK/2012 MTP for iTUNES Bookstore/9780615600918.itmsp - Error Messages:
                    Apple's web service operation was not successful
                    Unable to authenticate the package: 9780615600918.itmsp
                    ERROR ITMS-9000: "OPS/ibooks.ncx(5): 'p50': fragment identifier is not defined in 'OPS/content9.xhtml'" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)
Following is a "specific" fix, but the idea of the fix will help you with your specifics too.
I tried for 17 days to upload a book that looked and worked perfectly in iPAD via Preview.
After many discussions with Apple, who to their credit stayed with me over 2-3 days, I decided to play a hunch.
I went into a duplicated copy of the book and on every page, (because the error message was not telling the whole story), looked for what InDesign would call "Overset Text."
Now... the "flaw" in iBOOK Author (hint) is that it won't advise you of this "overset text" as does InDesign.
And to compound the matter, the exported ePUB document WORKS in iPAD Preview.
See Screenshots from InDesign:
Okay... Couldn't add it but it is a Warning Box that says there is overset text. (Characters which exceed the text box.)
Nevertheless, I played this hunch, and sure enough found a few boxes with the + in them. In other words I clicked on EVERY text holder and every text block in the entire document.
Where I found + signs, I simply deleted some carriage returns from the iBOOK file... (please note… carriage returns and literally empty spaces that caused the overset text) and then erased all previous copies of the Music to Picture Book on my hard drive, iTUNES and iPAD.
The result? A "text-book" upload with no snags! As my Son would say… "Victory!"
So, first make sure that you are using only PNGs, Jpegs and Movie files to iBook Specs. Then... make sure there are no overset text boxes, which you must do manually.
Enjoy & Godspeed!
Steve
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Unable to find/read file META-INF/ra.xml

When using the oc4j_admin_client to deploy an ear to a oas cluster I get this error, but only sometimes. I cannot find anything on the web that explains what might be causing this to occur. I'm guessing it might be with the configuration of OAS but even so I have no idea where to look. If anyone out there can give some advice it would help. Thanks,
[Summary] There are total 1 instances in the operation.
[Summary] Operation failed on applicationServerName/instanceName
[Summary] Operation on cluster FAILED since 1 instanced failed!
FINE: CoreRemoteMBeanServer.release call release on CoreRemoteMBeanServer: oracle.oc4j.admin.management.mejb.MEjb@5c1ae90c
FINE: CoreRemoteMBeanServer.release Call remove on MBeanServer EJB
FINE: CoreRemoteMBeanServer.release Call close on RMI Context: javax.naming.InitialContext@1629ce8c
SEVERE: J2EEDeploymentManager.deploy Deploy error: Operation failed with error:
Unable to find/read file META-INF/ra.xml in D:\oracle\u01\oas\10.1.3\j2ee\instanceName\connectors\AppName\AppName archive (IO Error: D:\oracle\u01\oas\10.1.3\j2ee\instanceName\connectors\AppName\AppName (The system cannot find the pat
h specified))
oracle.oc4j.admin.deploy.api.J2EEDeploymentException: Operation failed with error:

Hi forum-hog,
I think this is due to a known product defect. The patch is available and can be downloaded and installed.
Please try the following:
1) Download and apply patch 9073284
2) Perform the deployment again
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Cris

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I create a EAR using:
jar -cvf e:\workspace\otnapp\otnapp.ear
Then, I depoy this EAR through:
e:\jdk160_18\bin>java weblogic.Deployer -adminurl t3:\\localhost:7001 -user weblogic -passwork welcome1 -deploy -upload e:\workspace\otnapp\otnapp.ear
But, I get errors as follow:
java.io.IOException: No META-INF/application.xml was found in the EAR otnapp.ear
How to change the jar in the command line?

otnapp is an adf web application. META-INF is not in the E:\soaworkspace\otnapp.
It is in the :
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp\.adf\META-INF
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp\Model\classes\META-INF
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp\src\META-INF
None of them contains application.xml.
I run jar in E:\soaworkspace\otnapp. But I get error : 'jar' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Administrator>d:
D:\>e:
E:\>cd E:\soaworkspace\otnapp
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp>jar -cvf otnapp.ear
'jar' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp>jar -cvf otnapp.ear */ .
'jar' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp>set java_home
JAVA_HOME=E:\OracleBI_win2008_32_20101206\jdk160_18
path=
CD:\apache-maven-2.0.11\bin;C:\app\Administrator\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Thunder Network\KanKan\Codecs;C:\apps\FME\;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;D:\win2008EclipseWorkspace;E:\OracleBI_win2008_32_20101206\Oracle_BI1\bin;E:\OracleBI_win2008_32_20101206\Oracle_BI1\opmn\bin;E:\OracleBI_win2008_32_20101206\Oracle_BI1\opmn\lib;E:\OracleBI_win2008_32_20101206\Oracle_BI1\perl\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;CATALINA_HOME\bin;C:\Users\Administrator>E:\SOAworkspace\otnapp>

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We are migrating our weblogic server from 8.1 to 9.2. Tried to use DDConverter to convert the EJB deployment descriptor, but when I ran weblogic.appc, I got the following error :
<Error> <J2EE> <BEA-160197> <Unable to load descriptor D:\workspace\webshopEJB\wl9.2/META-INF/application.xml of module webshopLogic. The error is weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorException: Unmarshaller failed
and
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Here is my application.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.4">
<description>webshop EJB module</description>
<display-name>webshop Logic EJB</display-name>
<module>
<ejb>webshopLogic</ejb>
</module>
</application>
I checked for classpath, and still no clue about what's going wrong. Thanks in advance for any help.

I believe this likely is a classpath problem. I'd start by using the setWLSEnv.cmd or .sh script in the kit. That should set the classpath correctly.
Also, FWIW it wasn't required to run DDConverter. You could have used your 8.1 descriptors unchanged in 9.x as well.
-- Rob
WLS Blog http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/rwoollen/

Reload web-inf/web.xml file without restarting tomcat

Please help me if any one have a solution .
I am doing development in jsp, servlet. I am using tomcat5 as a webserver.
i want to reload web-inf/web.xml file without restarting tomcat.

From the tomcat admin page you can stop/start and refresh individual applications. See the tomcat documentation. Which, when you have a question about tomcat, you should always do first.

Tomcat 5.5.7 and context.xml

I am having difficulty corrcetly setting up the context.xml file. Perhaps someone can shed some insight as to how to do this...
I have a .war file called myWar.war I place this in the webapps directory
I want to use a path of a/b to access it.
so, if my browser url is
http://localhost:8080/a/b/html/index.html it will actually access webapp/myWar/html/index.html
I keep reading things that confuse me as to how to do this. Do I need something called context.xml, ROOT.xml, or myWar.xml. Also do I place it in the conf/Catalina/localhost directory r in the myWar/Meta-Inf directory
thank you

I remember reading something about the path value not being recognized for 5.5.x . It seems to validate it in the documentation below. I don't know how to 'fix' it though...
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