Error: Projects containing version <unknown> deployment descriptors require XMI-format bindings or extensions files. ibm-web-bnd.xml

Question

I have upgraded editor from Rad 7.5 to 8 and maven 2 to 3. This happens just after importing existing maven projects in RAD 8, but I have no errors on any pom files.

The issue is with two xml files :

Projects containing version deployment descriptors require XMI-format bindings or extensions files. ibm-web-bnd.xml /DocViewerWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF Unknown Validation Message

Projects containing version deployment descriptors require XMI-format bindings or extensions files. ibm-web-ext.xml /DocViewerWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF Unknown Validation Message

Contents of those two files are:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-bnd 
    xmlns="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee/ibm-web-bnd_1_0.xsd"
    version="1.0">

    <virtual-host name="default_host" />

  <ejb-ref name="ejb/MaintenanceServices" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.MaintenanceServices" />
  <ejb-ref name="ejb/ServiceTipsDocumentServices" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.ServiceTipsDocumentServices" />
  <ejb-ref name="ejb/ActivityDocumentServices" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.ActivityDocumentServices" />
  <ejb-ref name="ejb/BulletinDocumentServices" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.BulletinDocumentServices" />
  <ejb-ref name="ejb/CommonService" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.CommonService" />
  <ejb-ref name="ejb/AdminServices" binding-name="ejblocal:com.tscdv.document.b.AdminServices" />

</web-bnd>

and

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-ext
    xmlns="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee/ibm-web-ext_1_0.xsd"
    version="1.0">

    <reload-interval value="3"/>
    <context-root uri="DocViewerWeb" />
    <enable-directory-browsing value="true"/>
    <enable-file-serving value="true"/>
    <enable-reloading value="true"/>
    <enable-serving-servlets-by-class-name value="true" />

</web-ext>

What could be the problem here?

I have posted another possibly related issue: JSR250: CommonAnnotations for Java, 2.3: @Resource methods must be setters that follow the standard JavaBeans convention

Answer 1

Projects containing web.xml with version="2.4" or lower require ibm-web-bnd.xmi and ibm-web-ext.xmi.

Projects containing web.xml with version="2.5" or higher require ibm-web-bnd.xml and ibm-web-ext.xml.

Perhaps the change in tool versions has upgraded your web.xml version to 2.5, and now RAD is warning that this is incompatible with your web.xml?