GlassFish deployment Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'

Question

I am trying to deploy my war to GlassFish (works fine in JBoss). GlassFish fails to deploy with this message.

[#|2010-09-23T15:49:00.609-0400|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment.org.glassfish.deployment.common|_ThreadID=24;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|DPL8015: Invalid Deployment Descriptors in Deployment descriptor file WEB-INF/web.xml in archive [erdas-apollo.war]. Line 247 Column 16 -- cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee":dispatcher}' is expected.|#]

[#|2010-09-23T15:49:00.609-0400|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment.org.glassfish.deployment.common|_ThreadID=24;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|DPL8005: Deployment Descriptor parsing failure : cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee":dispatcher}' is expected.|#]

[#|2010-09-23T15:49:00.610-0400|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|javax.enterprise.system.core.com.sun.enterprise.v3.server|_ThreadID=24;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Exception while deploying the app java.io.IOException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee":dispatcher}' is expected. at org.glassfish.javaee.core.deployment.DolProvider.load(DolProvider.java:170) at org.glassfish.javaee.core.deployment.DolProvider.load(DolProvider.java:79) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.loadDeployer(ApplicationLifecycle.java:612) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.setupContainerInfos(ApplicationLifecycle.java:554) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:262) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:183) at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:272) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:305) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:320) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1176) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$900(CommandRunnerImpl.java:83) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1235) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1224) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:365) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.service(AdminAdapter.java:204) at com.sun.grizzly.tcp.http11.GrizzlyAdapter.service(GrizzlyAdapter.java:166) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.HK2Dispatcher.dispath(HK2Dispatcher.java:100) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:245) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:791) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:693) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:954) at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:170) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:135) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:102) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:88) at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:76) at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:53) at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:57) at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:69) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:330) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:309) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee":dispatcher}' is expected. at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.io.DeploymentDescriptorFile.read(DeploymentDescriptorFile.java:304) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.io.DeploymentDescriptorFile.read(DeploymentDescriptorFile.java:225) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readStandardDeploymentDescriptor(Archivist.java:614) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readDeploymentDescriptors(Archivist.java:366) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:238) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:247) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:208) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.ApplicationFactory.openArchive(ApplicationFactory.java:148) at org.glassfish.javaee.core.deployment.DolProvider.load(DolProvider.java:162) ... 31 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'url-pattern'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee":dispatcher}' is expected. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:417) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.reportSchemaError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:3181) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:1805) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:705) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:400) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2755) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395) at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.io.DeploymentDescriptorFile.read(DeploymentDescriptorFile.java:298) ... 39 more |#]

I've combed through the xml schema definition, and am unclear what it is choking on.

I've stripped out all of the url-patterns from the document:

163: <url-pattern>/ws/security/authserver</url-pattern>
169: <url-pattern>/vtor/*</url-pattern>
173: <url-pattern>/ap/*</url-pattern>
177: <url-pattern>/cover/*</url-pattern>
181: <url-pattern>/proc/*</url-pattern>
185: <url-pattern>/em/proxy</url-pattern>
189: <url-pattern>/ctent/*</url-pattern>
193: <url-pattern>/sces/*</url-pattern>
197: <url-pattern>/cat/services/*</url-pattern>
201: <url-pattern>/cat/wrs/*</url-pattern>
207: <url-pattern>/em/czs/*</url-pattern>
212: <url-pattern>/em/quartz/*</url-pattern>
217: <url-pattern>/em/masking</url-pattern>
222: <url-pattern>/min/*</url-pattern>
246: <url-pattern>/min/*</url-pattern>
247: <url-pattern>/sces/rpc</url-pattern>
256: <url-pattern>/cover/E/*</url-pattern>
257: <url-pattern>/cat/csw</url-pattern>
262: <url-pattern>/cover/E_PUBLIC</url-pattern>
314: <url-pattern>/cat/*</url-pattern>
318: <url-pattern>/ctent/*</url-pattern>
331: <url-pattern>/cat/csw/*</url-pattern>
335: <url-pattern>/cat/content/*</url-pattern>
339: <url-pattern>/cat/*</url-pattern>
348: <url-pattern>/min/*</url-pattern>

Answer 1

It looks like you may have an entry in the web.xml file that is invalid.

Do you have a filter definition that has something like:

<filter-name>Foo</filter-name>
<servlet-name>FooServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>BLAHBLAHBLAH</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>

That would be an illegal entry which could generate an error that reads like the one you are seeing.