Could not build ClassFile - ArchiveException

Question

We develop an application with spring, jpa, tomcat, maven, etc.

Locally on my developer machine everything works fine but when we deploy the application on a linux server I get the following exception:

org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.spi.ArchiveException: Could not build ClassFile     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.scan.spi.ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.toClassFile(ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.java:88)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.scan.spi.ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.handleEntry(ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.java:65)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.internal.JarFileBasedArchiveDescriptor.visitArchive(JarFileBasedArchiveDescriptor.java:176)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.scan.spi.AbstractScannerImpl.scan(AbstractScannerImpl.java:72)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.scan(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:723)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:219)     org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:186)     org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider$1.<init>(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:49)     org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:49)     org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:341)     org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:318)     org.domain.application.persistence.repository.DataSourceConfiguration.entityManagerFactory(DataSourceConfiguration.java:78)     org.domain.application.persistence.repository.DataSourceConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$52a56856.CGLIB$entityManagerFactory$0(<generated>)     org.domain.application.persistence.repository.DataSourceConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$52a56856$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$44eff5a3.invoke(<generated>)     org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:228)     org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer$BeanMethodInterceptor.intercept(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:312)     org.domain.application.persistence.repository.DataSourceConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$52a56856.entityManagerFactory(<generated>)     sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)     sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)     java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:166)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:590)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1113)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1008)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:505)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments(ConstructorResolver.java:636)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:446)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1113)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1008)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:505)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:276)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:129)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1471)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1216)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1081)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1006)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:904)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveAutowiredArgument(ConstructorResolver.java:815)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.createArgumentArray(ConstructorResolver.java:743)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:185)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1133)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1036)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:505)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1081)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1006)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:904)     org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:514)     org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)     org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:323)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)     org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:725)     org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757)     org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)     org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:658)     org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:624)     org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:672)     org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:543)     org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:484)     org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)     javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)     org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501)     org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)     org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610)     org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:537)     org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1085)     org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:658)     org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:222)     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1556)     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1513)     java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)     java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)     org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)     java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) 

The exception appears in my code after initializing the database when I call this method:

org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet() 

Can't find the problem. Help is appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

The issue can be a conflict between a java version and a javaassist version. If you're using the java 8 on your server you should make sure to use the latest javassist version as well. This blog shows the origin of a conflict being inside the thymeleaf which pulls in an older javassist, the solution being to exclude it from the dependencies

<dependency>     <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId>     <artifactId>thymeleaf</artifactId>     <version>${thymeleaf.version}</version>     <exclusions>         <exclusion>             <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>             <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>         </exclusion>     </exclusions> </dependency> 

your case could be different, so you should inspect the dependency tree to find a suitable solution