Incompatible neethi.jar with WAS 7

java web-services websphere cxf websphere-7
Bhuvan picture Bhuvan · Jul 10, 2013 · Viewed 22.5k times · Source

I am deploying one application Apache CXF-2.7.5 with neethi-3.0.2 in websphere 7. I am getting below error. My Application is spring driven. When I degraded Apache CXF to apache CXF-2.3.5. Application successfully deployed.

The same is working perfectly in Tomcat7.

I am able to reproduce this issue on Tomcat by adding (or overriding) a dependency of neethi.jar (with an older version --> 2.5.x) in pom.xml file.

Note: Apache CXF 2.7.5 comes with a latest version of neethi.jar (3.0.2), hence not causing issue on Tomcat7.

Is Web sphere picking up an older version of neethi.jar

Stack Trace is below :

[7/9/13 19:46:38:577 GMT+05:30] 00000012 FfdcProvider  I com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.FfdcProvider logIncident FFDC1003I: FFDC Incident emitted on /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/ffdc/server1_2a7e2a7e_13.07.09_19.46.38.57558021.txt com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest() 309
[7/9/13 19:46:38:582 GMT+05:30] 00000012 webapp        E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp logServletError SRVE0293E: [Servlet Error]-[CXFServlet]: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'cxf' defined in class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:997)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:943)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:609)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:918)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:469)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:383)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:283)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:1588)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:350)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:292)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:99)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:167)
        at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:722)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
        at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:162)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:76)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:990)
        ... 35 more
Caused by: org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.tryClass(Extension.java:173)
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.getClassObject(Extension.java:185)
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerImpl.activateAllByType(ExtensionManagerImpl.java:138)
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerBus.<init>(ExtensionManagerBus.java:126)
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerBus.<init>(ExtensionManagerBus.java:138)
        at org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus.<init>(SpringBus.java:47)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:515)
        at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
        ... 37 more
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: org.apache.neethi.AssertionBuilderFactory
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:265)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader._defineClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:726)
        at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.localFindClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:645)
        at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.loadClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:468)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:609)

Please help

Answer

Bhuvan picture Bhuvan · Jul 11, 2013

I had to make 'parent_last' class loading at web module level and delete following jar files from WAR:-

geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec-1.0.jar
geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.7.1.jar
stax-api-1.0.1.jar

This is because of the AssertionBuilderFactory was an implementation in 2.0.5 version of neethi.jar but is an interface in 3.0.2 which we are using due to CXF 2.7.5.

Since these jar files are automatically added at build time due to CXF dependencies, I think we'll have to manually delete these jars from WAR before deployment in WAS. Also with each deployment, we'll have to change Class Loader setting for our WAR.

To change the Class Loader order, use following path:- Enterprise Applications > MyApplicationWAR > Manage Modules > MyApplicationWAR

EDIT:

You can do the same from your POM file using <exclusions> tag

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
            <artifactId>cxf-bundle-jaxrs</artifactId>
            <version>${cxf.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

<!-- Jettison Dependency -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.jettison</groupId>
            <artifactId>jettison</artifactId>
            <version>${jettison.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>stax</groupId>
                    <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

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