Merging entity bean metadata yields ClassCastException ------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBMETA-350 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBMETA-350 Project: JBoss Metadata Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: ejb Environment: JBoss AS 7.1.0.CR1b Reporter: Rune Flobakk Assignee: Carlo de Wolf Priority: Critical Labels: ejb2, entitybean, jboss-as, metadata Fix For: 7.0.0.Beta34 I have encountered this issue on JBoss AS 7.1.0.CR1b with an application containing EJB2 entity beans. When deploying the beans I get the following ClassCastException: {quote} 13:04:55,292 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."myapp.ear"."myapplication-ejb-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."myapp.ear"."myapplication-ejb-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of subdeployment "myapplication-ejb-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar" of deployment "myapp.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.CR1b.jar:7.1.0.CR1b] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1824) [jboss-msc-1.0.1.GA.jar:1.0.1.GA] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1759) [jboss-msc-1.0.1.GA.jar:1.0.1.GA] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_24] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_24] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_24] Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EntityBeanMetaData cannot be cast to org.jboss.metadata.ejb.jboss.ejb3.JBossGenericBeanMetaData at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EntityBeanMetaData.merge(EntityBeanMetaData.java:121) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EntityBeanMetaData.createMerged(EntityBeanMetaData.java:112) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EntityBeanMetaData.createMerged(EntityBeanMetaData.java:32) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaData.merge(EnterpriseBeansMetaData.java:81) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaData.createMerged(EnterpriseBeansMetaData.java:52) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EjbJarMetaData.merge(EjbJarMetaData.java:175) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.spec.EjbJarMetaData.createMerged(EjbJarMetaData.java:668) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:124) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.CR1b.jar:7.1.0.CR1b] ... 5 more {quote} I have recreated the exception in isolation in a unit test, which can be pulled from my fork of jboss-metadata at github https://github.com/runeflobakk/metadata. I have identified the bug to be a faulty cast at {{[EntityBeanMetaData.java:121|https://github.com/jboss/metadata/blob/master/ejb/src/main/java/org/jboss/metadata/ejb/spec/EntityBeanMetaData.java#L121]}} (well, obviously). The immediate cause of this is the call to {{EntityBeanMetaData#merge}} at {{[EntityBeanMetaData.java:112|https://github.com/jboss/metadata/blob/master/ejb/src/main/java/org/jboss/metadata/ejb/spec/EntityBeanMetaData.java#L112]}}, passing {{this}} as argument for the {{AbstractEnterpriseBeanMetaData or}} parameter. {{or}} is then being cast to {{JBossGenericBeanMetaData}}, which is an entirely different type than {{EntityBeanMetaData}}. The code simply cannot possibly run. I _can_ change the cast to EntityBeanMetaData and the code still compiles, but I do not know if this has any other implications, e.g. if the public {{merge}} method is being called by any others which actually _do_ pass an JBossGenericBeanMetaData.