Spring Application Context issue - Datasource Bean Creation

Question

This webapp of mine is working perfectly fine on my localhost jetty server. I'm testing it out on Jelastic so I can fix any issue before deploying to a production server.

Issue is, app can't start because of a misconfiguration that I can't get fixed, can you help me out?

Full stack trace for the issue is:

[ERROR] ioc.Registry Operations trace:
[ERROR] ioc.Registry [ 1] Realizing service ApplicationContext
[ERROR] ioc.Registry [ 2] Instantiating service ApplicationContext implementation via ObjectCreator for Spring ApplicationContext
[ERROR] ioc.Registry [ 3] Creating Spring ApplicationContext via ContextLoader
[ERROR] SpringModuleDef.ApplicationContext Construction of service ApplicationContext failed: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException; remaining name 'jdbc/appDB'
org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException; remaining name 'jdbc/appDB'
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackerImpl.logAndRethrow(OperationTrackerImpl.java:121)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackerImpl.invoke(OperationTrackerImpl.java:88)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.PerThreadOperationTracker.invoke(PerThreadOperationTracker.java:87)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.RegistryImpl.invoke(RegistryImpl.java:1124)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.internal.spring.SpringModuleDef$3.createObject(SpringModuleDef.java:184)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackingObjectCreator$1.invoke(OperationTrackingObjectCreator.java:45)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackerImpl.invoke(OperationTrackerImpl.java:74)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.PerThreadOperationTracker.invoke(PerThreadOperationTracker.java:87)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.RegistryImpl.invoke(RegistryImpl.java:1124)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackingObjectCreator.createObject(OperationTrackingObjectCreator.java:49)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.SingletonServiceLifecycle.createService(SingletonServiceLifecycle.java:29)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.LifecycleWrappedServiceCreator.createObject(LifecycleWrappedServiceCreator.java:46)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.AdvisorStackBuilder.createObject(AdvisorStackBuilder.java:63)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.InterceptorStackBuilder.createObject(InterceptorStackBuilder.java:54)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.RecursiveServiceCreationCheckWrapper.createObject(RecursiveServiceCreationCheckWrapper.java:60)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackingObjectCreator$1.invoke(OperationTrackingObjectCreator.java:45)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackerImpl.invoke(OperationTrackerImpl.java:74)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.PerThreadOperationTracker.invoke(PerThreadOperationTracker.java:87)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.RegistryImpl.invoke(RegistryImpl.java:1124)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.OperationTrackingObjectCreator.createObject(OperationTrackingObjectCreator.java:49)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.services.JustInTimeObjectCreator.obtainObjectFromCreator(JustInTimeObjectCreator.java:66)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.services.JustInTimeObjectCreator.createObject(JustInTimeObjectCreator.java:54)
    at $ConfigurableWebApplicationContext_38b45053c6a2.delegate(Unknown Source)
    at $ConfigurableWebApplicationContext_38b45053c6a2.getBeanDefinitionCount(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.spring.SpringModule$1.initializeApplication(SpringModule.java:61)
    at $ApplicationInitializer_38b45053c6be.initializeApplication(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.services.TapestryModule$40.initializeApplication(TapestryModule.java:2438)
    at $ApplicationInitializer_38b45053c6be.initializeApplication(Unknown Source)
    at $ApplicationInitializer_38b45053c6ba.initializeApplication(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.services.TapestryModule$ServletApplicationInitializerTerminator.initializeApplication(TapestryModule.java:279)
    at $ServletApplicationInitializer_38b45053c69f.initializeApplication(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tapestry5.TapestryFilter.init(TapestryFilter.java:116)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doStart(FilterHolder.java:97)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:713)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1282)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:518)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:499)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:985)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:194)
    at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:534)
    at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:441)
    at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:119)

It seeems to be a problem with /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml, right? Let's check it out.

/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
  xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

<!-- Enable the Spring MVC stuff -->
<mvc:annotation-driven/>

  <!-- Enable usage of @Autowired. -->
  <context:annotation-config/>

  <!-- Enable component scanning for defining beans with annotations. -->
  <context:component-scan base-package="com.viktortech.automaton.model"/>

  <!--  For translating native persistence exceptions to Spring's 
        DataAccessException hierarchy. -->
<bean class="org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor"/>

<bean id="jndiTemplate" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate">
    <property name="environment">
        <props>
            <prop key="java.naming.factory.initial">org.mortbay.naming.InitialContextFactory</prop>
            <prop key="java.naming.provider.url">org.mortbay.naming</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

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

    <property name="jndiTemplate">
      <ref bean="jndiTemplate"/>
    </property>
    <property name="jndiName">
          <value>jdbc/appDB</value>
    </property>
  </bean>


<!-- ***********************************************************************
     To avoid requesting unnecessary connections (not necessary for
     MiniBank) with the Open Session in View filter, uncomment this and
     change "sessionFactory" bean (bellow) to use "dataSourceProxy" instead
     of "dataSource".
<bean id="dataSourceProxy" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy"
    p:targetDataSource-ref="dataSource"/>
     ******************************************************************* -->

<!-- Hibernate Session Factory -->
  <bean id="sessionFactory"
      class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
      p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
      p:configLocation="classpath:/automaton-hibernate-config.xml"/>

  <!-- Transaction manager for a single Hibernate SessionFactory.  -->
  <bean id="transactionManager"
      class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"
      p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />

<!-- Enable the configuration of transactional behavior based on
     annotations. -->
  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

  <bean id="manageService"
    class="com.viktortech.automaton.model.manageservice.ManageServiceImpl"/>

<bean id="botService"
    class="com.viktortech.automaton.model.botservice.BotServiceImpl"/>

<context:component-scan base-package="com.viktortech.automaton.rest" />

</beans>

So what's this JNDI jdbc/appDB, where it's defined and how? Right away, it's in the /WEB-INF/jetty-env.xml file

<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">

    <New id="viktor" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
        <Arg>jdbc/appDB</Arg>
        <Arg>
            <New class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
                <Set name="driverClassName">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</Set>
                <Set name="url">jdbc:mysql://workingDBserver/database</Set>
                <Set name="username">******</Set>
                <Set name="password">******</Set>
            </New>
        </Arg>
   </New>
</Configure>

So that's it. As I said, it runs pretty smooth on localhost:8080, but when deploying to a remote jetty server (Same jetty version) it goes 503 and then produces that error stated above.

Please, please, ask for any other resource you need to fix this out. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Looks like a missing library on the classpath?

Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mortbay.naming.InitialContextFactory

Are you using Maven? How are you getting all the jars needed for the application loaded into your classpath in the JVM that's trying to run this application?