I'm currently a developer for an agency where unfortunately we use IBM WebSphere anywhere and everywhere... I've searched this site, IBM documentation as well as too many pages of Google search and cannot find an an answer.
The issue I've been plagued with the last year is that whenever I deploy a web app .EAR to WAS 8.5.5.12 through Eclipse, it refuses to install it at all. Usually, upon adding an eligible workspace application to the WAS, it will immediately start the installation process. This is just not the case in my experience. My SystemOut log below isn't very helpful:
[9/11/17 11:03:11:138 EDT] 00000059 AdminHelper A ADMN1009I: An attempt is made to start the deferment-forbearance-ear-2.11.1.01-SNAPSHOT application.
[9/11/17 11:03:11:138 EDT] 00000059 ApplicationMg W WSVR0215W: Starting application, deferment-forbearance-ear-2.11.1.01-SNAPSHOT, failed. The application is not installed.
[9/11/17 11:03:11:216 EDT] 00000059 DMAdapter I com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.DMAdapter getAnalysisEngine FFDC1009I: Analysis Engine using data base: C:\IBM\WebSphere8\AppServer\properties\logbr\ffdc\adv\ffdcdb.xml
[9/11/17 11:03:11:263 EDT] 00000059 FfdcProvider W com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.FfdcProvider logIncident FFDC1003I: FFDC Incident emitted on C:\IBM\WebSphere8\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\ffdc\server1_ccf605e1_17.09.11_11.03.11.1545417859609336185341.txt com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke 679
[9/11/17 11:03:11:325 EDT] 00000059 FfdcProvider W com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.FfdcProvider logIncident FFDC1003I: FFDC Incident emitted on C:\IBM\WebSphere8\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\ffdc\server1_ccf605e1_17.09.11_11.03.11.2635024215334184810588.txt com.ibm.ws.management.connector.soap.SOAPConnector.invoke 351
[9/11/17 11:03:11:372 EDT] 00000059 FfdcProvider W com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.FfdcProvider logIncident FFDC1003I: FFDC Incident emitted on C:\IBM\WebSphere8\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\ffdc\server1_ccf605e1_17.09.11_11.03.11.3251626089514458391860.txt com.ibm.ws.management.connector.soap.SOAPConnector.service 212
There are however, 3 FFDC logs created, the first of which specifying this:
[9/11/17 11:03:11:154 EDT] FFDC Exception:javax.management.MBeanException SourceId:com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke ProbeId:679 Reporter:com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl$1@85728e7a
javax.management.MBeanException: Exception thrown in RequiredModelMBean while trying to invoke operation startApplication
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invokeMethod(RequiredModelMBean.java:1195)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invoke(RequiredModelMBean.java:999)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:847)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:783)
at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl$1.run(AdminServiceImpl.java:1350)
at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:118)
at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke(AdminServiceImpl.java:1243)
at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.AdminServiceDelegator.invoke(AdminServiceDelegator.java:181)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.soap.SOAPConnector.invoke(SOAPConnector.java:488)
at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.soap.SOAPConnector.service(SOAPConnector.java:324)
at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.soap.SOAPConnection.handleRequest(SOAPConnection.java:65)
at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(HttpConnection.java:733)
at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.run(HttpConnection.java:532)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1892)
Caused by: com.ibm.ws.exception.ConfigurationWarning: Application deferment-forbearance-ear-2.11.1.01-SNAPSHOT not installed
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1342)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:69)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:272)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean$4.run(RequiredModelMBean.java:1152)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:424)
at com.ibm.oti.security.CheckedAccessControlContext.securityCheck(CheckedAccessControlContext.java:30)
at sun.misc.JavaSecurityAccessWrapper.doIntersectionPrivilege(JavaSecurityAccessWrapper.java:41)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invokeMethod(RequiredModelMBean.java:1146)
... 17 more
The other 2 FFDC text docs look similar. I'm not the most experienced web dev so I'm not sure if that output should really tell me much. I've tried deleting (cleanly) old profiles/servers and creating new ones but to no avail. I've also tried switching WebSphere's SDK and JRE from 1.6 to 1.8 to try and fix this issue but still no results. This happens on multiple applications I've tried as well. Any suggestions on what to do about this? Maybe where else I can search possibly for more revealing data on why this is happening? I can absolutely provide more information on my setup if necessary, tried to be as close as possible to proper question etiquette.