Getting 'Missing Required Attribute' JiBX error after migrating to WebLogic 12

Good morning,

I've been working on a project where I'm supposed to:

1. upgrade the application from JRockit 1.6 to Java 7


2. upgrade the application to run in a WebLogic 10.3.5 environment to run in a WebLogic 12 environment

I'm sure this doesn't help but I'm new to the Java/Spring/WebLogic world.

I was able to upgrade from JRockit 1.6 to Java 7 but when it comes to the WebLogic part, I've been having issues starting the application.

Every time I do, I get the following error

org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException: Missing required attribute "source" (line 1, col 71)
at org.jibx.runtime.impl.UnmarshallingContext.attributeText(UnmarshallingContext.java:975)
at com.mydomain.JiBX_rule_def_bindingMungeAdapter.JiBX_rule_def_binding_unmarshalAttr_1_0()
at com.mydomain.JiBX_rule_def_bindingMutableRuleDefinition_access.unmarshal()
at org.jibx.runtime.impl.UnmarshallingContext.unmarshalElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:2757)
at org.jibx.runtime.impl.UnmarshallingContext.unmarshalDocument(UnmarshallingContext.java:2900)

and have been trying to debug it for a while now. What's really weird is that when I take out the code from a Spring/WebLogic environment and execute it, it works fine (ie, unmarshalls the data).

When it was in the WebLogic 10.3.5 environment w/ JRockit 1.6 and JiBX 1.2.1 jars, I had zero issues.

Here's what I've tried

• upgraded JiBX jars from 1.2.1 to 1.2.5


• upgraded xpp3 jars to 1.1.3.4.O


• upgraded Spring jars from 2.5.5 to 3.2.11


• tried including a weblogic.xml file (didn't have one before) and try to used the true


• tried including a weblogic-application.xml file and an APP-INF folder (didn't have one before) and tried to used the JiBX as my preffered class for unmarshalling

Here is some more information about the environment I'm working in

• Non Maven Environment (had to upgrade .jars manually)


• Used Java 1.7.0.45 and .71


• WebLogic 1.2.1.2


• Spring 3.2.11


• JiBX 1.2.5


• using MyEclipse Version: 2014 Build id: 12.0.0-20131202


• 
  

  no xsd file just a .xml binding file

  
  

  
  <binding>
  <mapping name="rule"
  class="com.mydomain.MutableRuleDefinition">
      <value name="a" field="a" style="attribute" />
      <value name="b" field="b" style="attribute" />
          <collection field="ruleElements">
              <structure name="ruleElement"
          type="com.mydomain.MutableRuleElement">
              <value name="c" field="c" style="attribute" />
              <value name="d" field="d" style="attribute" />
                  <collection field="values" item-type="java.lang.String"
              usage="optional">
                      <value name="value" />
                  </collection>
              </structure>
          </collection>
      </mapping>
  </binding>
  
  

Here is the unmarshalling code:

private MutableRuleDefinition unmarshalXMLRuleDef(String _xmlRuleDef) {
MutableRuleDefinition mruleDef = null;
try {
  IBindingFactory bfact = BindingDirectory
      .getFactory(MutableRuleDefinition.class);

  IUnmarshallingContext uctx = bfact.createUnmarshallingContext();

  mruleDef = (MutableRuleDefinition) uctx.unmarshalDocument(
      new ByteArrayInputStream(_xmlRuleDef.getBytes()), null);

} catch (JiBXException e) {
  logger.error("Could not un-marshalling the XML rule definition:["
      + _xmlRuleDef + "]", e);
}

Apparently this was an issue back in JiBX 1.2.1 but was fixed in 1.2.2 :

http://ift.tt/1BFhGFQ

Any help appreciated. Please let me know if you need more info...