Problem with the weblogic-maven-plugin

Question

I am in the process of converting from ant to maven, but I am having a problem with the weblogic-maven-plugin. Has anyone used this plugin successfully? Here is the error I am receiving even though I have a dependency on the xbean.jar in my pom, and it is in my local repo.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/bea/xml/XmlException
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.getDescript
orManager(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:301)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.getDescript
orBeanFromReader(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:749)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.createDescr
iptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:376)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescrip
torBeanWithoutPlan(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:720)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescrip
torBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:729)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppDescriptor.getWebAppBean(WebAppDescri
ptor.java:134)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspcInvoker.parseDescriptors(JspcInvoker.java:27
6)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspcInvoker.compile(JspcInvoker.java:187)
at weblogic.application.compiler.AppcUtils.compileWAR(AppcUtils.java:353
at weblogic.application.compiler.WARCompiler.compile(WARCompiler.java:78
at weblogic.application.compiler.flow.AppCompilerFlow.compileInput(AppCo
mpilerFlow.java:118)
at weblogic.application.compiler.flow.AppCompilerFlow.compile(AppCompile
rFlow.java:43)
at weblogic.application.compiler.FlowDriver$FlowStateChange.next(FlowDri
ver.java:69)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineD
river.java:26)
at weblogic.application.compiler.FlowDriver.nextState(FlowDriver.java:36
at weblogic.application.compiler.FlowDriver.run(FlowDriver.java:26)
at weblogic.application.compiler.Appc.runBody(Appc.java:163)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:158)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:115)
at weblogic.application.compiler.Appc.main(Appc.java:174)
at weblogic.appc.main(appc.java:14)
at jrockit.reflect.InitialMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.
lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;
I)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
at weblogic.ant.taskdefs.j2ee.CompilerTask.invokeMain(CompilerTask.java:
290)
at weblogic.ant.taskdefs.j2ee.Appc.privateExecute(Appc.java:250)
at weblogic.ant.taskdefs.j2ee.Appc.execute(Appc.java:159)
at org.codehaus.mojo.weblogic.AppcMojo.execute(AppcMojo.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPlugi
nManager.java:412)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(Defa
ultLifecycleExecutor.java:534)

Answer 1

Here is what you need to get the maven-weblogic-plugin appc goal to work:
<project>
<build>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<inputArtifactPath>${basedir}/../../jar/broker.war</inputArtifactPath>
<verbose>true</verbose>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>appc</goal>
</goals>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<configuration>
<verbose>false</verbose>
<debug>false</debug>
<projectPackaging>war</projectPackaging>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
<version>1.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>wlxbean</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>xbean</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>weblogic-container-binding</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>wlw-util</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>javelinx</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>wlw-langx</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>bcel</artifactId>
<version>5.1</version>
</dependency>
</plugin>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>wlw-langx</artifactId>
<version>9.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<project>
You need to install/deploy all of the above dependencies manually into your repo.