ModuleNotFoundException for "*.jar" when deploying WAR on JBoss EAP 6
Issue
When deploying the .war, the following error is encountered:
ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-10) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.module.service."deployment.myapp.war".main: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.module.service."deployment.myapp.war".main: JBAS018759: Failed to load module: deployment.myapp.war:main
at org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ModuleLoadService.start(ModuleLoadService.java:91) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) [classes.jar:1.6.0_65]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) [classes.jar:1.6.0_65]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:695) [classes.jar:1.6.0_65]
Caused by: org.jboss.modules.ModuleNotFoundException: j2ee.jar:main
at org.jboss.modules.Module.addPaths(Module.java:1030) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.modules.Module.link(Module.java:1386) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.modules.Module.relinkIfNecessary(Module.java:1414) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.loadModule(ModuleLoader.java:242) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ModuleLoadService.start(ModuleLoadService.java:70) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
... 5 more
We have no reference to j2ee.jar in our WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.x
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