java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class deploying to app engine

Question

I wrote a couple of REST services using Jersey 1.13 on JRE 1.6. Everything runs fine locally, but after I deploy to GAE I get this error:

****Uncaught exception from servlet
java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class
    at com.google.appengine.runtime.Request.process-139e1bda14d5aebc(Request.java)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig.init(ScanningResourceConfig.java:79)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.init(PackagesResourceConfig.java:104)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:78)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:89)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig(WebComponent.java:700)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig(WebComponent.java:678)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.init(WebComponent.java:203)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:374)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:557)
    at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:440)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:263)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:685)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1250)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:517)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:467)
    at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext$TraceContextRunnable.runInContext(TraceContext.java:452)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext$TraceContextRunnable$1.run(TraceContext.java:458)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext.runInContext(TraceContext.java:698)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext$AbstractTraceContextCallback.runInInheritedContextNoUnref(TraceContext.java:336)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext$AbstractTraceContextCallback.runInInheritedContext(TraceContext.java:328)
    at com.google.tracing.TraceContext$TraceContextRunnable.run(TraceContext.java:456)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)****

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This exception is caused by compatibility issues between asm-4.0.jar and asm-3.1.jar. With the new Version of AppEngine, asm-4.0.jar is used and it is not compatible with Jersey, which relies on asm-3.1.jar. To make Jersey still work on GAE 1.7, you have to remove the dependency on asm-4.0.jar.

See this post : http://cloudvane.com/2012/09/23/problem-with-google-appengine-and-jersey-with-java/

It s tested and verified, like that:

1. add asm-3.3.1.jar to your war->lib
2. add it to you re build path
3. remove physically the asm-4.0.jar
4. Project -> Properties -> Google -> AppEngine: switch Datanuclueus to v1

That s it!

Answer 2

The instructions on this post took care of my problem.

Apparently the jersey-server 1.13 jar is compatible with asm3.1 and GAE 1.7.1 needs ASM 4. Using the Jar repackaging tool jarjar you can deploy a asm 3.1 jar that will play with asm 4.

You may need to use JarJar version 1.3 if 1.4 gives an error message.