SpyObjectMessage loses original cause of exception when message payload has non-serializable fields --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-3296 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3296 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Components: JMS service Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.0.4.GA Environment: jboss 3.2.7, java 1.4.2 Reporter: David Assigned To: Dimitris Andreadis Priority: Minor Fix For: JBossAS-5.0.0.Beta, JBossAS-4.0.5.CR1, JBossAS-3.2.8.SP2 In setObject() of SpyObjectMessage there is a catch block for IOException. This catch block throws MessageFormatException with a reason of "Object cannot be serialized". Not a very good reason. If the original exception was logged, or chained with the MessageFormatException, at the very least you could find out which field was not serializable. Suggest a fix like: catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); MessageFormatException mfe = new MessageFormatException("Object cannot be serialized: " + e.getMessage()); mfe.setLinkedException(e); throw mfe; } Original stack trace: javax.jms.MessageFormatException: Object cannot be serialized at org.jboss.mq.SpyObjectMessage.setObject(SpyObjectMessage.java:88) at com.elementk.service.event.Event.send(Event.java:55) at com.elementk.service.event.Event.send(Event.java:77) at com.elementk.lms.product.Product.update(Product.java:244) at com.elementk.lms.contentacl.ContentAclSoupToNutsTest.testProductStatusChange(ContentAclSoupToNutsTest.java:408) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203) at com.elementk.test.UnitTestMBean$UnitTestThread.run(UnitTestMBean.java:280) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534) 2006.06.07 15:27:31.422 EDT ERROR [n/a] [Product.update:247] could not update product in product catalog java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to send JMS Message at com.elementk.service.event.Event.send(Event.java:69) at com.elementk.service.event.Event.send(Event.java:77) at com.elementk.lms.product.Product.update(Product.java:244) at com.elementk.lms.contentacl.ContentAclSoupToNutsTest.testProductStatusChange(ContentAclSoupToNutsTest.java:408) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203) at com.elementk.test.UnitTestMBean$UnitTestThread.run(UnitTestMBean.java:280) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534) Caused by: javax.jms.MessageFormatException: Object cannot be serialized at org.jboss.mq.SpyObjectMessage.setObject(SpyObjectMessage.java:88) at com.elementk.service.event.Event.send(Event.java:55) At the time of this defect, this issue has not been reported nor fixed, I checked in version 1.19 of SpyObjectMessage.