Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone can help me out with the following issue:

I'm migrating an application from Jboss 4.2 to 5.1 EAP. The application was built with EJB 2 and Spring 1.2. I've found some similar problems and tried all the possible alternative solutions without any luck.

My project has the following structure:

+ myApp.ear

     + META-INF

          - application.xml

          - jboss-app.xml

          - MANIFEST.MF

     + myApp.jar

          + <package-structure> // classes go here.

          + META-INF

               - ejb-jar.xml

               - jboss.xml

               - jbosscmp-jdbc-xml

               - MANIFEST.MF

          + myApp-spring.spring

               + META-INF

                    - MANIFEST.MF   

                    - myApp-spring.xml

     + myApp.war

When deploying, I get this error message:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '<class-name>' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [<package-name>.<class-name>Delegate]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is javax.ejb.EJBException: Could not instantiate bean.

The weird thing here is that when deploying 1st. myApp.jar, 2nd myApp-spring.spring (getting the file out of the JAR) and 3rd myApp.war... putting these files (one by one) in <JBOSS_HOME>/jboss-as/server/<my-instance>/deploy, it works. But, putting the entire EAR project or the other 3 artifacts (one by one) in any other order then the specified, jboss server gives me the error pointed out above.

This is my myApp-spring.xml file:

<code>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>

<!-- ============== DataSource ============== -->

          <bean id="juiciosDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">

                    <property name="jndiName">

                              <value>java:/myAppDS</value>

                    </property>

          </bean>

<!-- ============== DAO Layer (Persistence) ============== -->

<bean id="tipoIdentificacionDAODelegate"

                    class="<bussiness-delegate-package>.<DAO-delegate-class>" />

</beans>

</code>

Any help will be appreciated!!!!!