LarsBlog

I've had occasional errors over the years, in both IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) 6.0 and 7.0, where a Portal WAR project in your workspace refuses to deploy to the portal test environment. Cleaning/refreshing projects, bouncing the portal test environment and even removing/re-adding the projects seems to make no difference.

The error you get (in System.err) is like this:

 *** ERROR ***: Tue May 15 17:14:40 BST 2007    com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.exception.OpenFailureException:
IWAE0023E Unable to open module file "MyWar.war" in EAR file "C:\workspace\MyWarEAR"
    !Stack_trace_of_nested_exce!
    com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.exception.OpenFailureException:
IWAE0006E Archive is not a valid WAR File because the deployment descriptor can not be found (case sensitive): WEB-INF/web.xml
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.CommonarchiveFactoryImpl.openSpecificArchive(CommonarchiveFactoryImpl.java:777)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.CommonarchiveFactoryImpl.openWARFile(CommonarchiveFactoryImpl.java:802)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.openNestedArchive(EARFileImpl.java:644)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.openNestedArchive(EARFileImpl.java:609)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.strategy.LoadStrategyImpl.openNestedArchive(LoadStrategyImpl.java:454)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.strategy.LoadStrategyImpl.collectFilesFromLooseArchives(LoadStrategyImpl.java:291)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.strategy.LoadStrategyImpl.collectFiles(LoadStrategyImpl.java:271)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ContainerImpl.getFiles(ContainerImpl.java:221)
    	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getModuleFiles(EARFileImpl.java:476)
    	at com.ibm.ws.webservices.deploy.DeployUtils.isWebServicesSecurityEnabled(DeployUtils.java:718)
    	at com.ibm.ws.webservices.deploy.WSDeployTask.performTask(WSDeployTask.java:97)
    	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.SchedulerImpl.run(SchedulerImpl.java:253)
    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:570)
[15/05/07 17:14:41:314 BST] 0000005a SystemErr     R com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.exception.DeploymentDescriptorLoadException:
IWAE0022E Exception occurred loading deployment descriptor for module "MyWarWAR.war" in EAR file
"C:\workspace\MyWartEAR"
!Stack_trace_of_nested_exce!
com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.exception.NoModuleFileException: A file does not exist for module element having uri: MyWar.war
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.checkType(ModuleRefImpl.java:492)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.initModuleFileFromEAR(ModuleRefImpl.java:120)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.getModuleFile(ModuleRefImpl.java(Compiled Code))
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getModuleFile(EARFileImpl.java:90)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getDeploymentDescriptor(EARFileImpl.java:322)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getDeploymentDescriptor(EARFileImpl.java:330)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.rollUpRoles(EARFileImpl.java:785)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.rollUpRoles(EARFileImpl.java:775)
	at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.client.ArchiveDeploymentInfo.<init>(ArchiveDeploymentInfo.java:150)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.client.AppInstallHelper.getAppDeploymentInfo(AppInstallHelper.java:184)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.client.AppInstallHelper.getAppDeploymentInfo(AppInstallHelper.java:178)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.task.ValidateAppTask.performTask(ValidateAppTask.java:106)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.SchedulerImpl.run(SchedulerImpl.java:253)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:570)

[15/05/07 17:14:41:314 BST] 0000005a SystemErr     R !Stack_trace_of_nested_exce!
[15/05/07 17:14:41:314 BST] 0000005a SystemErr     R com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.exception.NoModuleFileException:
A file does not exist for module element having uri: MyWar.war
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.checkType(ModuleRefImpl.java:492)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.initModuleFileFromEAR(ModuleRefImpl.java:120)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.ModuleRefImpl.getModuleFile(ModuleRefImpl.java(Compiled Code))
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getModuleFile(EARFileImpl.java:90)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getDeploymentDescriptor(EARFileImpl.java:322)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.getDeploymentDescriptor(EARFileImpl.java:330)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.rollUpRoles(EARFileImpl.java:785)
	at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.commonarchivecore.impl.EARFileImpl.rollUpRoles(EARFileImpl.java:775)
	at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.client.ArchiveDeploymentInfo.<init>(ArchiveDeploymentInfo.java:150)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.client.AppInstallHelper.getAppDeploymentInfo(AppInstallHelper.java:184)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.client.AppInstallHelper.getAppDeploymentInfo(AppInstallHelper.java:178)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.task.ValidateAppTask.performTask(ValidateAppTask.java:106)
	at com.ibm.ws.management.application.SchedulerImpl.run(SchedulerImpl.java:253)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:570)

Today, I seemed to be able to fix this by stoping the portal v6.0 test environment, closing RAD, then deleting this project's directory in:

C:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0

I then restarted RAD/Portal test-env, redeployed the app to my portal test environment and the error was gone.