Error publishing Spring application on Geronimo web server

Question

I am trying to configure Spring on a Geronimo web server, but I am getting the following error:

2010-10-08 18:52:45,105 WARN  [PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver] Cannot search for matching files underneath URL [bundle://316.0:1/com/unveiled/politics/] because it does not correspond to a directory in the file system
java.io.FileNotFoundException: URL [bundle://316.0:1/com/unveiled/politics/] cannot be resolved to absolute file path because it does not reside in the file system: bundle://316.0:1/com/unveiled/politics/
 at org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils.getFile(ResourceUtils.java:204)
 at org.springframework.core.io.AbstractFileResolvingResource.getFile(AbstractFileResolvingResource.java:51)
 at org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource.getFile(UrlResource.java:168)
...

This application runs on JBoss AS.

Some other configuration files that matter:

web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" 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-app_2_5.xsd">

    <!-- Handles all requests into the application -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>
                /WEB-INF/spring/app-config.xml
            </param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

app-config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- Scans the classpath of this application for @Components to deploy as beans -->
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.unveiled.politics" />

    <!-- Configures Spring MVC -->
    <import resource="mvc-config.xml" />

</beans>

MVC-config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- Configures the @Controller programming model -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <!-- Resolves view names to protected .jsp resources within the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

WelcomeController.java:

package com.unveiled.politics.controllers;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;

@Controller
public class WelcomeController {
    @RequestMapping(value="welcome", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getWelcomePage(ModelMap model) {
        return "index";
    }
}

Answer 1

Component scanning will only work if the application (whether it is an EAR or WAR) is unpacked by the application into the file system. Application services will usually do this anyway for performance reasons at runtime.

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