JBoss 5.1.2 EAP doesn't start after moving to java 1.7

Document ID:7014451
Creation Date:24-Jan-2014
Modified Date:24-Jan-2014
- Micro Focus Products:
  Identity Manager
  Identity Manager Roles Based Provisioning Module

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2 Application Server
Identity Manager 4.0.2
Identity Manager Roles Based Provisioning Module 4.0.2
Identity Manager Roles Based Provisioning Module 4.0.2 Patch D

Situation

After the installation of RBPM 4.0.2 Patch D and moving from java jre / jdk 1.6 to java jre / jdk 1.7 Red Hat JBoss EAP 5.1.2 fails to start.

The following exception is shown while executing start-jboss.sh / start-jboss.bat:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/bootstrap/BaseServerConfig
    at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.doInit(AbstractServerImpl.java:190)
    at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.init(AbstractServerImpl.java:173)
    at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.init(AbstractServerImpl.java:143)
    at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:218)
    at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.bootstrap.BaseServerConfig
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)

Resolution

Contact Red Hat and request patch: JBPAPP-8693

After the installation of patch JBPAPP-8693, the configuration file %jboss-install-folder%/server/%context%/deployers/jbossweb.deployer/META-INF/war-deployers-jboss-beans.xml has to be modified. The following section has to be commented out:



After having made these changes the server should be able to start.