Hello All,
I have recently been saddled with the task of making a servlet application designed for
Tomcat work in a JBoss portlet. I have successfully created a portlet for the application
and it works as long as I don't try to use any of the previous servlet code. My major
problem is the NoClassDefFoundError I get when trying to use reflection in the old code.
The second part of my problem is the code we are using requires access from the browser to
a servlet to process ajax requests. (I haven't even begun to tackle that one).
So the first problem. The portlet is a .war file with a basic structure. It has a
WEB-INF/lib folder that I put the prior apps .jar file into. I have one class that creates
the portlet. All is happy. The portlet uses this doView method:
| protected void doView(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws
PortletException, PortletSecurityException, IOException
| {
| response.setContentType("text/html");
| PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
| try{
| PortletRequestDispatcher prd =
this.getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/app");
| prd.include(request, response);
| }
| catch(Exception e){
| writer.print("Error Writing Widget:"+e.getStackTrace());
| }
| writer.close();
| }
|
app is declared in my web.xml and the portlet gets there no problem. The issue is there is
a bit of reflection used in a class that the servlet calls. There is where it poops out
and I get the NoClassDefFoundError on a class I know exists in the prior app .jar file.
The googling around I have done suggests it probably has something to do with the way
JBoss does class loading but I am at a loss to try and figure out what I need to change to
get this to work. If anyone out there has run into a similar situation where reflection
wont work inside of a portlet .war file please post your comments.
On the second issue, how do I access a servlet URL from a browser in a portlet?
Thanks in advance.
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