Issue

• NoClassDefFoundError Exception is occuring in deployment time on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 when Richfaces classes is referenced in EJB components. This error can also occurs with other Richfaces components.

  2009-11-11 17:03:37,956 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] (main) Error installing to Real: name=vfsfile:/opt/apps/jboss/jboss-eap-5.0/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/myproject-ear.ear/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real
  org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying myproject-ejb.jar: org/richfaces/component/html/HtmlMenuItem
       at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:196)
       at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:99)
       at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractVFSRealDeployer.java:45)
           ...
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
  Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/richfaces/component/html/HtmlMenuItem
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
       at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
       ...
       at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.<init>(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:138)