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Re: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/girevik">Steve Guthrie</a> in <i>Beginner's Corner</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/811463#811463">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>No, the prefrences manager is not part of my code which is what's making this so hard to figure out.  It's part of the verdor "under the covers" code.  I think I know what it would be trying to access based on what it's doing at that stage, but I've confirmed that file is in my war as well.  I was hoping someone could point me to a deployment or startup issue.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Upon closer relefection, I am getting an error that I hadn't paid much attention to before because I thought it was on server startup rather than when the code got executed.  The top part of the stack trace looks like this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>12:02:40,634 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR A "org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender" object is not assignable to a "org.apache.log4j.Appender" variable.<br/>12:02:40,634 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR The class "org.apache.log4j.Appender" was loaded by <br/>12:02:40,634 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR [BaseClassLoader@7d58ae{vfszip:/C:/Jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/dctmwebservices.war/}] whereas object of type <br/>12:02:40,634 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR "org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender" was loaded by [org.jboss.bootstrap.NoAnnotationURLClassLoader@9ed927].<br/>12:02:40,634 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named "FILE".<br/>12:02:41,337 ERROR [SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS] SOAP request exception<br/>java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException<br/> at org.jboss.ws.core.server.ServiceEndpointInvoker.invoke(ServiceEndpointInvoker.java:228)<br/> at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.processRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:474)<br/> at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:295)<br/> at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.doPost(RequestHandlerImpl.java:205)<br/> at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleHttpRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:131)<br/> at org.jboss.wsf.common.servlet.AbstractEndpointServlet.service(AbstractEndpointServlet.java:85)<br/> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)</p><div class="mcePaste" id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;"></div></div>
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