JBoss 5.1: Entity classes not found (vfszip)
jazb Apr 25, 2012 8:35 AMI am using JBoss 5.1 with Hibernate 3.6, **JPA 2.0** and Spring 3.0.5.
I use maven to build the EAR file which looks like :
AutoTrader.ear
-------> META-INF
--------------> application.xml
--------------> jboss-app.xml
--------------> MANIFEST.MF
-------> AutoTrader.war
if I deploy this ear file in JBoss 5.1, i get the error
{code}
org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Not an entity: class uk.co.aol.shipmanager.domain.Manager; nested exception is ja
va.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not an entity: class uk.co.aol.shipmanager.domain.Subscription
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryUtils.convertJpaAccessExceptionIfPossible(EntityManagerFactoryUtils.java:286) ~[at_war-1.0.war:3
.0.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect.translateExceptionIfPossible(HibernateJpaDialect.java:104) ~[at_war-1.0.war:3.0.5.RELEASE
]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.translateExceptionIfPossible(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:368) ~[at_war-1.
0.war:3.0.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.dao.support.ChainedPersistenceExceptionTranslator.translateExceptionIfPossible(ChainedPersistenceExceptionTranslator.java:58
) ~[at_war-1.0.war:3.0.5.RELEASE]
{code}
However, if I deploy the war file exploded, it works fine.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Adi
**UPDATE:**
I have added a ResourceScanner which extends NativeScanner:
{code}
public class ResourceScanner extends NativeScanner {
@Override
public Set<Class<?>> getClassesInJar(final URL jarToScan,
final Set<Class<? extends Annotation>> annotationsToLookFor) {
return super.getClassesInJar(patchUrl(jarToScan), annotationsToLookFor);
}
@Override
public Set<NamedInputStream> getFilesInJar(final URL jarToScan, final Set<String> filePatterns) {
return super.getFilesInJar(patchUrl(jarToScan), filePatterns);
}
@Override
public Set<Package> getPackagesInJar(final URL jarToScan,
final Set<Class<? extends Annotation>> annotationsToLookFor) {
return super.getPackagesInJar(patchUrl(jarToScan), annotationsToLookFor);
}
@Override
public String getUnqualifiedJarName(final URL jarToScan) {
return super.getUnqualifiedJarName(patchUrl(jarToScan));
}
/**
* Patch the VFS URL to a FILE protocol URL.
*
* @param url
* original URL.
* @return either the original, either the corresponding FILE protocol of given VFS URL.
*/
protected URL patchUrl(final URL url) {
String protocol = url.getProtocol();
if (protocol.equals("vfs")) {
try {
File file = new File(url.getFile());
return file.toURI().toURL();
} catch (final MalformedURLException e) {
return url;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return url;
}
}
return url;
}
}
{code}
and, in spring-persistence.xml,
{code}
<property name="hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner" value="uk.co.aol.shipmanager.ResourceScanner"/>
{code}
This again works in the exploded war file.
**But in case of a *EAR* file, the protocol is *vfszip* not *vfs*.**
Please tell what to do???