MANIFEST.MF; 72 char limit; strange line break; StringIndexOutOfBoundsException; HELP!

Paul Rowe

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Jun 4, 2002, 8:58:35 PM6/4/02

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Hi All;

I am trying to deploy an EAR with WLS 6.1 sp 2 under linux and I am
getting a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
during deployment. I am using ANT to build my EAR (both 1.4.1 and 1.5 beta
2), and both of these versions
are creating a MANIFEST.MF that is like the following:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Class-Path: TiVo_framework.jar TiVo_sapinterface.jar TiVo_webcc.jar Ti
Vo_internalauthen.jar

Pursuant to the JAR file specification @
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html,
this is a legal manifest. But, I have a feeling that the WL Server is not
liking it because of the
strange line break right in the middle of one of my JARs. Unfortunately, I
have to have the manifest like
this because I need all of these JARs and I am going to keep using ANT.

I have opened a case with BEA tech support, but I am a bit unhappy on their
response time and answers.
Does anyone out there have some insight into this problem? According to
what I have seen, I am not the first one.

pa...@paulrowe.com

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1525)
at weblogic.utils.jars.ManifestEntry.stream(ManifestEntry.java:166)
at weblogic.utils.jars.Manifest.stream(Manifest.java:78)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppHelper.resolveManifestName(WebAppHelper.java
:398)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppHelper.extractClassFiles(WebAppHelper.java:1
77)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.extractClassFiles(WebAppServl
etContext.java:3405)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.setDocroot(WebAppServletConte
xt.java:3376)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.init(WebAppServletContext.jav
a:862)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.<init>(WebAppServletContext.j
ava:815)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWebApp(HttpServer.java:428)
at weblogic.j2ee.WebAppComponent.deploy(WebAppComponent.java:74)
...

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Paul Rowe

Adrian Sampaleanu

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Jun 5, 2002, 12:04:36 AM6/5/02

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The problem is, as if you could figure this out from the exception, that in
6.1 SP2 all the jars in the lib directory of a web app are re-archived and
copied to renamed jars during startup and in the process, their manifests
are verified. If all of the jars referenced in the Class-Path headers of all
the library jars are not found WLS will throw this exception.

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Paul Rowe

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Jun 5, 2002, 1:59:42 AM6/5/02

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All of the JARs are there and present in the file. This error is not
"intuitive." According to the stacktrace, it appears WLS is having a
problem parsing manifest.mf. If it could not find a JAR file, wouldn't it
report a resource missing type exception rather than a
stringindexoutofboundsexception?

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Christian Buchegger

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Jun 5, 2002, 3:41:51 AM6/5/02

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Hi,

the StringIndexOutOfBoundsException was reported as CR64449 and will be fixed in
WLS6.1SP3.
There are also patches availabe to fix this and some related issues. see also
news://newsgroups.bea.com/3CD05867.F24B9D46%40ToNewsgroup.Only

Regards,
Christian Buchegger
Developer Relations Engineer
BEA Support

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Rajesh Mirchandani

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Jun 5, 2002, 12:29:13 PM6/5/02

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The correct CR is CR064391 and is fixed in SP3 too.

Christian Buchegger wrote:

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Rajesh Mirchandani