I have an issue with Eclipse generated war files when deployed to JBoss. I have configured an instance of JBoss 5.1.0 in Eclipse and have Eclipse deploy to JBoss. When started, JBosss complains it can not read a zip file (I assume it is the war file since it doesn’t tell me anything else). The error is like this:
13:27:08,824 ERROR [ProfileDeployAction] Failed to add deployment: test.war
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error determining structure: test.war
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
at org.jboss.web.deployers.WARStructure.determineStructure(WARStructure.java:248)
at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.StructureDeployerWrapper.determineStructure(StructureDeployerWrapper.java:73)
at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.VFSStructuralDeployersImpl.doDetermineStructure(VFSStructuralDeployersImpl.java:196)
at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.VFSStructuralDeployersImpl.determineStructure(VFSStructuralDeployersImpl.java:221)
at org.jboss.deployers.structure.spi.helpers.AbstractStructuralDeployers.determineStructure(AbstractStructuralDeployers.java:77)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.determineStructure(MainDeployerImpl.java:1004)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.determineDeploymentContext(MainDeployerImpl.java:440)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.addDeployment(MainDeployerImpl.java:390)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.addDeployment(MainDeployerImpl.java:300)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.addDeployment(MainDeployerAdapter.java:86)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:61)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:361)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.activateProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:306)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:271)
at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractExceptionHandler.handleZipEntriesInitException(AbstractExceptionHandler.java:39)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.helpers.NamesExceptionHandler.handleZipEntriesInitException(NamesExceptionHandler.java:63)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.ensureEntries(ZipEntryContext.java:626)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.checkIfModified(ZipEntryContext.java:773)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.getChild(ZipEntryContext.java:817)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryHandler.createChildHandler(ZipEntryHandler.java:191)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVirtualFileHandler.structuredFindChild(AbstractVirtualFileHandler.java:684)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryHandler.getChild(ZipEntryHandler.java:165)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.DelegatingHandler.getChild(DelegatingHandler.java:107)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVirtualFileHandler.structuredFindChild(AbstractVirtualFileHandler.java:689)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryHandler.getChild(ZipEntryHandler.java:165)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.DelegatingHandler.getChild(DelegatingHandler.java:107)
at org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile.getChild(VirtualFile.java:481)
at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.structure.helpers.AbstractStructureDeployer.applyMetadataPaths(AbstractStructureDeployer.java:481)
at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.structure.helpers.AbstractStructureDeployer.createContext(AbstractStructureDeployer.java:455)
at org.jboss.web.deployers.WARStructure.determineStructure(WARStructure.java:204)
... 25 more
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:127)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:143)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipFileWrapper.ensureZipFile(ZipFileWrapper.java:175)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipFileWrapper.acquire(ZipFileWrapper.java:245)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.initEntries(ZipEntryContext.java:484)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.ensureEntries(ZipEntryContext.java:619)
... 38 more
I have examined the war file and it looks ok and surprisingly if I extract the war file and zip its content with 7zip, JBoss starts fine. I am puzzled as to how Eclipse creates a war file that is not readable by JBoss. The same war file works fine with Tomcat.
Has anyone seen this before? How can I fix this?
so after debugging I figured out one of the library jar files had a zero size. The project for which the jar was zero sized was empty and eclipse produced a zero sized jar file for it (for whatever reason). I am not sure in what combination I could get the war file to deploy to jboss before but this was definitely the main issue.