JBoss AS7 app deployed on a Mac can't find com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel
classnotfoundexception, java, jboss7.x, jfreechart, macos
Solution
I'm not really sure how to test where exactly to add this, but you need to add `com.apple.laf,com.apple.laf.resources` as dependencies. In the CLI GUI that ships with AS 7 it's defined in the `JAVA_OPTS` with `-Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=com.apple.laf,com.apple.laf.resources`. You could add that to your `standalone.conf` or `domain.conf` depending on which mode you're running in.
You might also just try adding `Dependencies: com.apple.laf,com.apple.laf.resources` to your `MANIFEST.MF` in your deployment too. I'm not sure if that will work, but it's probably worth a test.
Problem
We're migrating to JBoss AS7 from an older version of JBoss and we use JFreeChart in one part of our app: ``` chart = ChartFactory.createStackedBarChart( "", "", "Data", dataset, PlotOrientation.HORIZONTAL, true, false, false ); ``` When we hit this line, we get the stack trace below indicating that com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel can't be found. We only see this issue on a Mac which makes sense given the com.apple.laf package name. Running on a Linux server seems to work fine. Is there something we need to do to get AS7 on a Mac to recognize Apple's look and feel classes? All of the Macs I've tried this on are fully updated as of 4/26/12. I haven't been able to find one that has some of the older JVMs. Stack trace: ``` 15:38:30,125 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.lifecycle] (http--0.0.0.0-8080-1) JSF1054: (Phase ID: RENDER_RESPONSE 6, View ID: /blah/blah/blah/blahInfo.xhtml) Exception thrown during phase execution: javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent[source=com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@3dc264b1] 15:38:30,129 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/mgmt].[Faces Servlet]] (http--0.0.0.0-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel from [Module "deployment.blah_war-1001.0-SNAPSHOT.war:main" from Service Module Loader] at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:190) at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468) at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456) at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:423) at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398) at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(SwingUtilities.java:1856) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:563) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1329) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1422) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1410) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults(UIManager.java:645) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at javax.swing.UIManager.getColor(UIManager.java:687) [classes.jar:1.6.0_31] at org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart.<clinit>(JFreeChart.java:261) [jfreechart-1.0.13.jar:] at org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory.createStackedBarChart(ChartFactory.java:950) [jfreechart-1.0.13.jar:] at this.is.our.code.DisplayChart.buildChart(DisplayChart.java:73) [classes:] ``` For now we've been able to get around this problem by specifying the default look and feel as a system property when starting JBoss: ``` -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel ``` This seems like more of a hack so if there's a better way, we'd like to try that.