Unable to Override content-config.xml Repository Properties Using Deployment Plan Descriptor in plan.xml File (Doc ID 888366.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 06, 2025

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Symptoms

Receiving the following exception when overriding content-config.xml property descriptors in the deployment plan plan.xml file.

weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorValidateException: The following failures occurred:

-- ClassName is a required value that has not been specified.

at weblogic.descriptor.internal.AbstractDescriptorBeanHelper.validateSubTree(AbstractDescriptorBeanHelper.java:68)
at weblogic.descriptor.internal.DescriptorImpl.validate(DescriptorImpl.java:313)
at weblogic.descriptor.BasicDescriptorManager.createDescriptor(BasicDescriptorManager.java:301)
at weblogic.descriptor.BasicDescriptorManager.createDescriptor(BasicDescriptorManager.java:260)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.getDescriptorBeanFromReader(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:774)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.mergeDescriptorBeanWithPlan(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:704)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2._mergeDescriptors(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:562)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.mergeDescriptors(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:445)
at weblogic.application.config.ConfigDescriptorManager.parseMergedDescriptorBean(ConfigDescriptorManager.java:119)
at weblogic.application.config.DefaultModule.parseDescriptorBean(DefaultModule.java:492)
at weblogic.application.config.DefaultModule.prepare(DefaultModule.java:298)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.prepare(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:93)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow$1.next(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:360)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.prepare(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:56)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.prepare(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:46)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:615)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:191)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:147)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:61)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.createAndPrepareContainer(ActivateOperation.java:189)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doPrepare(ActivateOperation.java:87)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.prepare(AbstractOperation.java:217)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentPrepare(DeploymentManager.java:719)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.prepareDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1186)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handlePrepare(DeploymentManager.java:248)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.prepare(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:157)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doPrepareCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:157)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$000(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:12)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$1.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:45)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:464)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:200)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:172)

Note: There is no issue overriding weblogic-application.xml property descriptors in the deployment plan plan.xml file.

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