OBIEE - Mapviewer Error after 11.1.1.7 Upgrade

You may get an error after upgrading your 11.1.1.6 environment to 11.1.1.7.

Here is what to do:

After upgrading to OBIEE 11.1.1.7 mapviewer shows error:

  "HTTP 500 Internal server Error"

When trying URL:

  http://localhost:9704/mapviewer


The log contains :

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/adfinternal/view/faces/taglib/html/HtmlHtmlTag
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
<Watch 'UncheckedException' with severity 'Notice' on server 'bi_server1' has triggered at Jul 9, 2013 12:00:02 PM CEST. Notification details:
WatchRuleType: Log
WatchRule: (SEVERITY = 'Error') AND ((MSGID = 'WL-101020') OR (MSGID = 'WL-101017') OR (MSGID = 'WL-000802') OR (MSGID = 'BEA-101020') OR (MSGID = 'BEA-101017') OR (MSGID = 'BEA-000802'))
WatchData: DATE = Jul 9, 2013 12:00:02 PM CEST SERVER = bi_server1 MESSAGE = [ServletContext@285430038[app:mapviewer module:/mapviewer path:/mapviewer spec-version:2.5 version:11.1.1]] Root cause of ServletException.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/adfinternal/view/faces/taglib/html/HtmlHtmlTag
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
......
......
......
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
SUBSYSTEM = HTTP USERID = SEVERITY = Error THREAD = [ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)' MSGID = BEA-101017 MACHINE = VMBO TXID = CONTEXTID = 3f3d2d8955322f32:-750ddf2f:13fc2ab56ea:-8000-00000000000012de TIMESTAMP = 1373364002231
WatchAlarmType: AutomaticReset
WatchAlarmResetPeriod: 30000
>

CAUSE

Known issue

Need to clean some files

SOLUTION

There is a known issue when upgrading to 11.1.1.7

Here is the workaround:

Workaround:

A number of files have to be removed from the MapViewer deployment and the
Weblogic internal cache of the MapViewer application needs to be deleted.

- Stop the managed server, e.g. bi_server1

(Note : the following step is also required if 11.1.1.7.1 patches are to be
applied)
- Delete the following files from MapViewer deployment, e.g. <middleware
home>/Oracle_BI1/bifoundation/jee/mapviewer.ear

web.war/WEB-INF/lib/adf-faces-api.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/adf-faces-impl.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-impl.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsr173_1.0_api.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/mvutil.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/lib/xdb.jar
web.war/WEB-INF/adf-faces-config.xml
web.war/WEB-INF/orion-web.xml

- Recursively delete the directory: <middleware
home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/bi_server1/tmp/_WL_use
r/mapviewer_11.1.1


- Restart the managed server.

Internal Reference:
Bug 16906739 - UPGRADE OF BIEE FROM 11.1.1.6.0 TO 11.1.1.7.0 CAUSES MAPVIEWER RUNTIME FAILURE

Also documented in the Release notes:

41.6.1.4 MapViewer Runtime Failure After Upgrading from Release 11.1.1.6 to Release 11.1.1.7 (link http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/doc.1111/e14770/biee.htm#CHDJIDBD )