WEB-INF/web.xml not found exception for deployed war on server startup

Question

Weblogic server is throwing an exception indicating that it can't find
          web.xml on startup when a particular war file is deployed. The exception
          and my web.xml follow below.
          There are some other strange elements to this:
          1) The deployed war in the application directory has a valid web.xml in the
          web-inf folder.
          2) The war in the servers temp directory corresponding to my war contains
          only the files found in WEB-INF in the deployed jar, but not those found in
          web-inf (case matters). These files are in the root of the war, not in a
          WEB-INF folder!
          3) The servlets in the war do load and are invokable.
          4) If I redeploy the jar while the server is still running, I get no
          exception, and the temp war then has the correct structure (with a WEB-INF
          folder and contains web.xml).
          The exception:
          <Oct 14, 2001 8:15:46 PM CDT> <Error> <HTTP> <[HTTP PPSserver]
          Could not find Web application
          "D:\Dev\bea\wlserver6.0\.\config\PPS\applications\.wl_temp_do_not_delete\wl_
          local_comp2079.war"
          java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in jar
          file
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.getInputSource(DescriptorLoade
          r.java:207)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader.java:1
          78)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:446)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWebApp(HttpServer.java:404)
          at weblogic.j2ee.WebAppComponent.deploy(WebAppComponent.java:74)
          at weblogic.j2ee.Application.addComponent(Application.java:133)
          at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEService.addDeployment(J2EEService.java:115)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:327)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:143)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.WebServer.addWebDeployment(WebServer.java:
          76)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy32.addWebDeployment(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.WebServerMBean_CachingStub.addWebDeploymen
          t(WebServerMBean_CachingStub.java:1012)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:313)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployments(Deployment
          Target.java:277)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateServerDeployments(D
          eploymentTarget.java:232)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateDeployments(Deploym
          entTarget.java:192)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy29.updateDeployments(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.ServerMBean_CachingStub.updateDeployments(
          ServerMBean_CachingStub.java:2299)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.ApplicationManager.startConfigManager(Appl
          icationManager.java:240)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.ApplicationManager.start(ApplicationManage
          r.java:122)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy23.start(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.ApplicationManagerMBean_CachingStub.start(
          ApplicationManagerMBean_CachingStub.java:435)
          at
          weblogic.management.Admin.startApplicationManager(Admin.java:1033)
          at weblogic.management.Admin.finish(Admin.java:494)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:431)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:170)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
          web.xml:
          <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
          2.2//EN"
          "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
          <web-app>
          <display-name>Controller Unit Tests</display-name>
          <context-param>
          <param-name>weblogic.jsp.precompile</param-name>
          <param-value>false</param-value>
          </context-param>
          <context-param>
          <param-name>package_com.cinfin.cld.controller.conduct.access.test</param-nam
          e>
          <param-value>ConductEntityAccessTest</param-value>
          </context-param>
          <servlet>
          <servlet-name>unitTestRunner</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>com.cinfin.cld.test.unit.UnitTestRunner</servlet-class>
          </servlet>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>unitTestRunner</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>unitTestRunner.srv</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          <resource-ref>
          <res-ref-name>PPSDS</res-ref-name>
          <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
          <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
          </resource-ref>
          </web-app>
          

Answer 1

Kumar,
          Here it is.
          Kumar Allamraju <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
          I have a webapp with the following entries in my web.xml and i can't seem to duplicate your problem.
          Can you send us your webapp? I will try to duplicate it in my environment.
          Kumar
          Steve Demuth wrote:
          Already tried that. No difference. Kumar Allamraju <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
          Interesting.
          This shouldn't happen though.
          Can you stop the server delete the .wl_temp_do_not_delete
          dir? Let's see if that makes any difference.
          Kumar
          Steve Demuth wrote:
          Weblogic server is throwing an exception indicating that it can't find
          web.xml on startup when a particular war file is deployed. The exception
          and my web.xml follow below.
          There are some other strange elements to this:
          1) The deployed war in the application directory has a valid web.xml in the
          web-inf folder.
          2) The war in the servers temp directory corresponding to my war contains
          only the files found in WEB-INF in the deployed jar, but not those found in
          web-inf (case matters). These files are in the root of the war, not in a
          WEB-INF folder!
          3) The servlets in the war do load and are invokable.
          4) If I redeploy the jar while the server is still running, I get no
          exception, and the temp war then has the correct structure (with a WEB-INF
          folder and contains web.xml).
          The exception:
          <Oct 14, 2001 8:15:46 PM CDT> <Error> <HTTP> <[HTTP PPSserver]
          Could not find Web application
          "D:\Dev\bea\wlserver6.0\.\config\PPS\applications\.wl_temp_do_not_delete\wl_
          local_comp2079.war"
          java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in jar
          file
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.getInputSource(DescriptorLoade
          r.java:207)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader.java:1
          78)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:446)
          at
          weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWebApp(HttpServer.java:404)
          at weblogic.j2ee.WebAppComponent.deploy(WebAppComponent.java:74)
          at weblogic.j2ee.Application.addComponent(Application.java:133)
          at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEService.addDeployment(J2EEService.java:115)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:327)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:143)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.WebServer.addWebDeployment(WebServer.java:
          76)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy32.addWebDeployment(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.WebServerMBean_CachingStub.addWebDeploymen
          t(WebServerMBean_CachingStub.java:1012)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentT
          arget.java:313)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployments(Deployment
          Target.java:277)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateServerDeployments(D
          eploymentTarget.java:232)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateDeployments(Deploym
          entTarget.java:192)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy29.updateDeployments(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.ServerMBean_CachingStub.updateDeployments(
          ServerMBean_CachingStub.java:2299)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.ApplicationManager.startConfigManager(Appl
          icationManager.java:240)
          at
          weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.ApplicationManager.start(ApplicationManage
          r.java:122)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl
          .java:562)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:5
          48)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBea
          nImpl.java:285)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1555)
          at
          com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:439)
          at
          weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:180)
          at $Proxy23.start(Unknown Source)
          at
          weblogic.management.configuration.ApplicationManagerMBean_CachingStub.start(
          ApplicationManagerMBean_CachingStub.java:435)
          at
          weblogic.management.Admin.startApplicationManager(Admin.java:1033)
          at weblogic.management.Admin.finish(Admin.java:494)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:431)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:170)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
          web.xml:
          <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
          2.2//EN"
          "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
          <web-app>
          <display-name>Controller Unit Tests</display-name>
          <context-param>
          <param-name>weblogic.jsp.precompile</param-name>
          <param-value>false</param-value>
          </context-param>
          <context-param>
          <param-name>package_com.cinfin.cld.controller.conduct.access.test</param-nam
          e>
          <param-value>ConductEntityAccessTest</param-value>
          </context-param>
          <servlet>
          <servlet-name>unitTestRunner</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>com.cinfin.cld.test.unit.UnitTestRunner</servlet-class>
          </servlet>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>unitTestRunner</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>unitTestRunner.srv</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          <resource-ref>
          <res-ref-name>PPSDS</res-ref-name>
          <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
          <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
          </resource-ref>
          </web-app>
          [att1.html]
          [controllerUnitTests.war]