Error deploying when web.xml contains similiar security-constraint elements

[Former Member]

I am receiving an error when I include similiar security constraints in my web.xml descriptor. I actually have many security-constraint elements defined but I have narrowed it down to the following two that appear kind of similiar which are causing the problem:

<security-constraint>

<web-resource-collection>

<web-resource-name>ProcessesPosts</web-resource-name>

<url-pattern>/processPost/*</url-pattern>

</web-resource-collection>

</security-constraint>

<security-constraint>

<web-resource-collection>

<web-resource-name>Processes</web-resource-name>

<url-pattern>/process/*</url-pattern>

</web-resource-collection>

</security-constraint>

The error I receive is:

#1#com.sap.engine.services.deploy.exceptions.ServerDeploymentException: Exception during generating components of sap.com/s25qoie_1_SAP application in servlet_jsp container.

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.DeploymentTransaction.makeComponents(DeploymentTransaction.java:512)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.DeployUtilTransaction.commonBegin(DeployUtilTransaction.java:248)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.DeploymentTransaction.begin(DeploymentTransaction.java:215)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ApplicationTransaction.makeAllPhasesOnOneServer(ApplicationTransaction.java:371)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ApplicationTransaction.makeAllPhases(ApplicationTransaction.java:405)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.makeGlobalTransaction(DeployServiceImpl.java:2298)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.deploy(DeployServiceImpl.java:286)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImplp4_Skel.dispatch(DeployServiceImplp4_Skel.java:2636)

at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4Message.process(P4Message.java:253)

at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4Message.execute(P4Message.java:109)

at com.sap.engine.services.cross.fca.FCAConnectorImpl.executeRequest(FCAConnectorImpl.java:841)

at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4Message.process(P4Message.java:125)

at com.sap.engine.services.cross.fca.MessageReader.run(MessageReader.java:59)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.Executable.run(Executable.java:108)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.CentralExecutor$SingleThread.run(CentralExecutor.java:168)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid prefix pattern in URLPatternList

at javax.security.jacc.URLPatternSpec.setURLPatternArray(URLPatternSpec.java:329)

at javax.security.jacc.URLPatternSpec.<init>(URLPatternSpec.java:106)

at javax.security.jacc.WebResourcePermission.<init>(WebResourcePermission.java:188)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.util.jacc.JACCRulesGenerator.generatePermissionsUnchecked(JACCRulesGenerator.java:311)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.util.jacc.JACCRulesGenerator.generateAndAddPermissionsIntoPolicyConfiguration(JACCRulesGenerator.java:132)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.util.jacc.SecurityConstraintParser.processAllSecurityConstraints(SecurityConstraintParser.java:151)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.util.jacc.SecurityConstraintParser.createSecurityResourcesJACC(SecurityConstraintParser.java:57)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.util.SecurityUtils.createSecurityResources(SecurityUtils.java:122)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.DeployAction.initXmls(DeployAction.java:722)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.DeployAction.deploy(DeployAction.java:276)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.deploy.WebContainer.deploy(WebContainer.java:181)

at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.DeploymentTransaction.makeComponents(DeploymentTransaction.java:506)

... 14 more

Has anyone seen anything like this? Have I defined something wrong in my web.xml? The exact same web.xml file does work in several other application servers.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jay,

It seems that this problem is already solved and will be included in the upcoming Java EE 5 supported release.

Kind regards,

Svilen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Svilen,

Thanks for the response.

Do you know if this is documented somewhere? Maybe some list of known issues and thier status? Or how did you find out this information?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jay,

I am not aware of such document for the preview release.

About the concrete problem your investigation was enough detailed so we managed to reproduce and fix it.

Thanks and regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the info Svilen. I did not know that you were involved in fixing the issue. It is nice to know that SAP is actively watching the forum and fixing potential problems.