ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener

[shelleyb]

Cross-post.

I have a Java EE 5 application (attached) with contents as follows (I've narrowed down my real application to the following test case which isolates the problem):

|- META-INF/application.xml (declares web-module.war)
|- web-module.war (servlet 2.5 web module)
   |- WEB-INF/web.xml (declares WebInitializer as listener)
   |- META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (Class-Path: ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar java-beans-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar)
|- ee-components.jar
   |- test/sjb/components/WebInitializer (simple ServletContextListener that depends on test.sjb.beans.Pojo)
|- java-beans.jar
   |- test/sjb/beans/Pojo (simple java class with no dependencies)

When attempting to deploy this application on JBoss AS 7.0.0.Final, the following exception occurs:

10:28:34,603 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-16) Starting deployment of "test-app.ear"
10:28:34,644 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-15) Starting deployment of "web-module.war"
10:28:34,692 WARN  [org.jboss.modules] (MSC service thread 1-11) Failed to define class test.sjb.components.WebInitializer in Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader: java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link test/sjb/components/WebInitializer (Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:401)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:261)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader$1.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:76)
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:588)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:183)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.processClasses(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:126)
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.deploy(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:76)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContextListener
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:397)
    ... 18 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener from [Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:191)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    ... 23 more
10:28:34,695 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-11) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".INSTALL: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "test-app.ear"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link test/sjb/components/WebInitializer (Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:401)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:261)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader$1.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:76)
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:588)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:183)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.processClasses(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:126)
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.deploy(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:76)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
    ... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContextListener
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:397)
    ... 18 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener from [Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:191)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    ... 23 more
10:28:34,905 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (pool-2-thread-2) Deployment of "test-app.ear" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"test-app.ear\".INSTALL" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"test-app.ear\".INSTALL: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment \"test-app.ear\""},"Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => ["jboss.naming.context.java.comp.test-app.web-module.web-module.ValidatorFactory missing [ jboss.naming.context.java.module.test-app.web-module ]","jboss.naming.context.java.comp.test-app.web-module.web-module.Validator missing [ jboss.naming.context.java.module.test-app.web-module ]"]}
10:28:34,926 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-11) Stopped deployment web-module.war in 22ms
10:28:34,935 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-12) Stopped deployment test-app.ear in 33ms

The application represents a typical, simplified "skinny WAR" where the libraries are bundled within the EAR and referenced from the web module's MANFIFEST.MF. The web module correctly declares its dependencies on the Manifest Class-Path, and all JARs should be visible to it. The javax.* Java EE classes should be provided by the container and visible to the module, so I'm not sure why the ClassNotFoundException exception is being thrown. This same application deploys and runs fine on JBoss 6.0.0.Final, as well as some other application servers (including WAS 7, Geronimo 2.2.1).

Message was edited by: Shelley J. Baker. Added attachment.

[jaikiran]

Shelley Baker wrote:

When attempting to deploy this application on JBoss AS 7.0.0.Final, the following exception occurs:

10:28:34,603 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-16) Starting deployment of "test-app.ear"
10:28:34,644 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-15) Starting deployment of "web-module.war"
10:28:34,692 WARN  [org.jboss.modules] (MSC service thread 1-11) Failed to define class test.sjb.components.WebInitializer in Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader: java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link test/sjb/components/WebInitializer (Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:401)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:261)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader$1.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:76)
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:588)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:183)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.processClasses(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:126)
    at org.jboss.as.ee.component.EEClassConfigurationProcessor.deploy(EEClassConfigurationProcessor.java:76)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContextListener
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) [:1.6.0_26]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:397)
    ... 18 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener from [Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:191)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:358)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:330)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:307)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:101)
    ... 23 more
10:28:34,695 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-11) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".INSTALL: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "test-app.ear"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_26]

The javax.* is being loaded from the module of that (plain) jar file. The javax.* module dependencies are added only to the jars which are deployments. Add a:

Dependencies: javaee.api

to the MANIFEST.MF of that jar.

[shelleyb]

Thanks, but even after adding the javaee.api dependency to the ee-components-1.0.jar MANIFEST.MF, I get the same exception (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener).

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: SL010380
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_26
Dependencies: javaee.api 

[shelleyb]

I'm still having this problem, but thought I'd share a couple of my other attempts to resolve it. Since adding the javaee.api dependency to the manifest didn't work, I tried to resolve this by using the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file. I created this file at META-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml in my project's EAR. I tried a few similar attempts to add the javaee.api module to the deployment as follows:

<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <deployment>
        <dependencies>
            <module name="javaee.api" />
        </dependencies>
    </deployment>  
</jboss-deployment-structure>

The above attempt had no effect, resulting in the same exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener.

<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

The above attempt also had no effect, resulting in the same exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletContextListener.

<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <sub-deployment name="ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar">
        <dependencies>
            <module name="javaee.api" />
        </dependencies>
    </sub-deployment>  
</jboss-deployment-structure>

This attempt resulted in a different exception, since the ee-components JAR is not actually considered a "sub-deployment" (despite the original exception which was thrown from Module "deployment.test-app.ear.ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:main"):

14:25:45,269 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-13) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test-app.ear".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "test-app.ear"
     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
     at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
     at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: Sub deployment ee-components-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar in jboss-structure.xml was not found. Available sub deployments: web-module.war, 
     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.subDeploymentNotFound(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:358)
     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.deploy(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:320)
     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
     ... 5 more

As one additional attempt, though I didn't expect it to work, I added the javaee.api module dependency to the sub-deployment "web-module.war." As expected, I still got the ClassNotFoundException.

I am relatively new to JBoss AS 7, but coming from other application servers, it is very surprising that my simple application does not have access to the servlet classes which I'd expect to be provided by the container, and based on the previous response and documentation, I'd think that declaring the javaee.api module as a dependency might at least allow me to workaround this problem, but I'm having no such luck. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if my EAR file appears to violate a portable EAR file as defined by the spec (as far as I can tell, it seems inline with the EE specs). Regardless, I'd appreciate a better understanding of JBoss's proposed approach to workaround this issue, or thoughts on whether this might be a bug.

[khichar.anil]

Hi Shelley Baker,

I hope the foolowing step will get you resolved :

Go to <JBOSS-HOME>/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

Find the element

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.0" />

and replace it by

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.0">

      <global-modules>

           <module name="javaee.api" slot="main"/>           

      </global-modules>

</subsystem>

It would definitely get you resolved. Please let me know your status.

Thanks!

Anil

[varejao]

The same problem happened here, with jboss eap 6.1 / eas 7.1. The problem was that my eclipse project was configured to use JavaSE, instead of JDK. I configured the build path accordingly and voilá! So, you should use JDK as the JRE Excecution Environment, compiler, etc.

[scarfagna]

Go to

JBoss\jboss-eap-6.1\modules\system\layers\base\javax\servlet\api\main

include JAR

jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec-1.0.2.Final-redhat-1.jar

For me it worked

best regards

Stefano

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[phamtuanchip]

Hi, I've got nearly same problem like this and event I had either

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.1">

          <global-modules>

               <module name="javaee.api" slot="main"/>          

          </global-modules>

        </subsystem>

in standalone-full.xml and

jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec-1.0.2.Final-redhat-1 in jboss-eap-6.1\modules\system\layers\base\javax\servlet\api\main

anyone tried this with the luck ?