I know this issue does not quite belong here, but since it is a flex-related issue, I thought I'd post to see if anyone has experience this. We developed a webapp that used Flex 1.5 for the presentation tier, and Spring 1.2.8 for the business tier. Such app was to be deployed on Weblogic 9.2. Everything worked fine until we started migrating our Spring config to version 2.0.1. The effort was pretty much straight-forward, and all Spring xml config files were left untouched, save for the schema declaration on all files, and some AOP namespaces.
Note first that, due to its nature, webapps built on Flex 1.5 and deployed in any version of Weblogic have to be deployed in expanded wars. Once the migration was complete, we tried to deploy the webapp to the very same environment we previously had it up and running, and this exception was thrown: Code: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 7 in XML do cument from URL [zip:C:/bea/weblogic92/samples/domains/wl_server/./servers/examp lesServer/tmp/_WL_user/seguridad-webapp-1/fpleo0/war/WEB-INF/lib/seguridad-core- 1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar!/dataSourceApplicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOC TYPE root "null". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null". at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Lorg.xml.sax.InputSource;)V (Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Lorg.xml.sax.InputSo urce;)Lorg.w3c.dom.Document;(Unknown Source) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadB eanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:128) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:144) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.load BeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.load BeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationCon text.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refres h(AbstractApplicationContext.java:262) at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplica tionContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationCon text(ContextLoader.java:246) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationConte xt(ContextLoader.java:184) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitiali zed(ContextLoaderListener.java:49) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run (EventsManager.java:375) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate dSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java: 121) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(Eve ntsManager.java:83) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAp pServletContext.java:1591) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletCon text.java:2734) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.jav a:892) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:336) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleSta teDriver.java:204) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineD river.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStat eDriver.java:60) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedMod uleDriver.java:200) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(Module ListenerInvoker.java:117) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleSta teDriver.java:204) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineD river.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStat eDriver.java:60) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartMod ulesFlow.java:26) We tried to deploy the very same app but in a compressed WAR, and the WebAppCtx configured for the webapp was successfully created, even though no Flex functionality was available. As you can see, the exception reports an error on line 7 of dataSourceApplicationContext.xml, which I paste below: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <description> AplicationContext de configuracion de data source para la aplicaciĆ³n publicada en WL8.1SP5 </description> <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean"> <description>Represents SeguridadDataSource on this application context. Bean is created from JNDI object</description> <property name="jndiName"> <value>/jdbc/SeguridadDataSource</value> </property> </bean> <bean id="hibernateProperties" class="java.util.Properties"> <description>Propiedades de hibernate para las aplicaciones</description> <constructor-arg> <props> <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</prop> <prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">1</prop> <prop key="hibernate.use_outer_join">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">0</prop> <prop key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup"> org.hibernate.transaction.WeblogicTransactionManagerLookup </prop> <prop key="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class"> net.sf.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider </prop> </props> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans> We have other applications (EARs and compressed WARs not using Flex 1.5) that deploy flawlessly and use the very same xml config Spring files, so I'm guessing there's some kind of classpath problem with the jars containing the parsers for both the Spring and Flex files. Could anyone help us out with this issue? Perhaps suggesting some kind of override to Weblogic's classpath? Thanks in advance. J. .