Deployment Error in JBoss 5.1

[Prasanna Kannan]

Hi,

I'm trying to deploy my ejb3 application which was developed in JBoss 4.3 to JBoss 5.1. After resolving all the build issues, I'm getting the below error everytime I start the deployment in JBoss 5.1. I have checked all my manifest files and everything looks good. Is this error related to any EJB3 annotations? Any help on this would be appreciated.

14:48:14,836 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to PostClassLoader: name=vfsfile:/C:/jboss/jboss-5.1/server/default/deploy/myejbproj.ear/ state=ClassLoader mode=Manual requiredState=PostClassLoader
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Cannot process metadata
	at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
	at org.jboss.deployment.AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.deploy(AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.java:210)
	at org.jboss.deployment.AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.deploy(AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.java:122)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:179)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1454)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1172)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1113)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:826)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:556)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:789)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:699)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:403)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:778)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:543)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256)
	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.io.IOException: invalid header field
	at java.util.jar.Attributes.read(Attributes.java:389)
	at java.util.jar.Manifest.read(Manifest.java:182)
	at java.util.jar.Manifest.<init>(Manifest.java:52)
	at org.jboss.virtual.VFSUtils.readManifest(VFSUtils.java:283)
	at org.jboss.deployment.AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.getMainClassName(AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.java:359)
	at org.jboss.deployment.OptAnnotationMetaDataDeployer.processMetaData(OptAnnotationMetaDataDeployer.java:80)
	at org.jboss.deployment.AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.deploy(AnnotationMetaDataDeployer.java:206)
	... 31 more

Thanks

[Jaikiran Pai]

What's the contents of your MANIFEST.MF file(s) of the jar/ear?

P.S: If you are thinking of migrating to a new JBoss AS version then I would recommend JBoss AS 7.1.x instead of JBoss AS 5.x

[Prasanna Kannan]

I was able to resolve this issue after I deleted everything from my ear manifest file. There was a manual entry for a custom framework like FrameX_Version: 3.4, which was giving this error. Hope this helps someone.

[Prasanna Kannan]

After a closer look, I saw that the colon( was missing the custom framework line and a space was missing at the end of the manifest file after the 'Class-Path'. After I made these changes, I'm able to deploy to JBoss 5.1 successfully.