Hi, when we have a webfragment in our war to enable i think that absolute ordering we get this exception?:
21-Sep-2015 14:15:11.355 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processServletContainerInitializers Failed to process JAR found at URL [/post_install_test] for ServletContainerInitializers for context with name [{1}] java.net.MalformedURLException: no !/ in spec at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.JarURLConnection.parseSpecs(Unknown Source) at java.net.JarURLConnection.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.Handler.openConnection(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.openConnection(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebappServiceLoader.parseConfigFile(WebappServiceLoader.java:156) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebappServiceLoader.load(WebappServiceLoader.java:113) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processServletContainerInitializers(ContextConfig.java:1597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1125) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:768) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5069) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:724) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:697) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:919) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1704) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: no !/ in spec at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.Handler.parseAbsoluteSpec(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.Handler.parseURL(Unknown Source) ... 29 more if we say to tomcat8 to not extract the war (unpack=false) This is completely outside of the application itself because it is trying to start it. when unpack is default (true) then it works fine. so in our WEB-INF/web.xml we have: <absolute-ordering> <name>servoy_ngclient</name> </absolute-ordering> and then in the WEB-INF/lib/ngclient.jar/META-INF/web-fragement.xml <web-fragment xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-fragment_3_0.xsd" version="3.0"> <name>servoy_ngclient</name> </web-fragment> If we remove that ordering and/or the web-fragement.xml then it starts working again -- Johan Compagner Servoy