Hi, I gave 1.1.9-SNAPSHOT and 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT a go and got the same results.
Here are some more of my logs, minus some stuff that doesn't provide any extra information/reveals more about my machine than I would like.
In case you are wondering why weld is being called from a context initializer, it is because the project that I am working on has special requirements regarding configuration that are not well suited to web.xml. In any case, the weld listener is called as it normally would be and I have narrowed down the issue to the inclusion of this one class.
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21:02:54.580 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO org.jboss.weld.Version - WELD-000900 1.1.8 (Final)
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21:02:55.471 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO org.jboss.solder.core.CoreExtension - Preventing interface org.jboss.seam.mail.templating.velocity.package-info from being installed as required class org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine could not be found
21:02:56.122 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO org.jboss.solder.core.CoreExtension - Preventing class org.jboss.seam.international.locale.LocaleConfiguration from being installed as bean due to @Veto annotation
21:02:56.350 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO org.jboss.solder.core.CoreExtension - Preventing interface org.jboss.seam.mail.templating.freemarker.package-info from being installed as required class freemarker.template.Template could not be found
Sep 15, 2012 9:02:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal
SEVERE: A child container failed during start
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/scheduler-webapp]]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1123)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:785)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/scheduler-webapp]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/resteasy/spi/interception/MessageBodyReaderInterceptor
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:787)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2904)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1173)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1681)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getEnclosingClass(Class.java:1105)
at java.lang.Class.getSimpleBinaryName(Class.java:1240)
at java.lang.Class.isMemberClass(Class.java:1230)
at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.Reflections.isNonStaticInnerClass(Reflections.java:139)
at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.addClass(BeanDeployer.java:78)
at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.addClasses(BeanDeployer.java:123)
at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployment.createBeans(BeanDeployment.java:184)
at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.deployBeans(WeldBootstrap.java:350)
at org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener.contextInitialized(Listener.java:182)
at uk.co.novaware.core.ContextInitializer.onStartup(ContextInitializer.java:112)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5274)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.resteasy.spi.interception.MessageBodyReaderInterceptor
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
... 27 more
Sep 15, 2012 9:02:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal
SEVERE: A child container failed during start
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost]]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1123)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:302)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:732)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:684)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:322)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:451)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: A child container failed during start
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1131)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:785)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 7 more
Sep 15, 2012 9:02:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Catalina.start:
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardServer[8005]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:684)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:322)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:451)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardService[Catalina]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:732)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 7 more
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 9 more
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: A child container failed during start
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1131)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:302)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 11 more
Sep 15, 2012 9:02:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 4780 ms
I can sort of see what is happening:
org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.addClass
calls
private Class<?> loadClass(String className) {
try {
return resourceLoader.classForName(className);
} catch (ResourceLoadingException e) {
log.info(IGNORING_CLASS_DUE_TO_LOADING_ERROR, className);
xlog.catching(INFO, e);
return null;
}
}
But in my case it seems that a class with a missing super class will not cause an exception to be thrown. (Java7)
So later org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.addClass calls:
org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.Reflections.isNonStaticInnerClass(Reflections.java:139)
Which does throw an exception - which is not caught. However, it is not clear to me if this is a bug or a feature or even if it is covered in the CDI spec at all?