java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException after updating to Android Studio 4.2

Question

Google just release Android Studio 4.2 stable. I updated my AS from 4.1 to 4.2. Now I am getting this error. It's showing error in data binding.

Caused by: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: javax.annotation.processing.Processor: android.databinding.annotationprocessor.ProcessDataBinding Unable to get public no-arg constructor
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toCollection(_Collections.kt:1200)
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toMutableList(_Collections.kt:1233)
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toList(_Collections.kt:1224)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.ProcessorLoader.doLoadProcessors(ProcessorLoader.kt:80)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.ProcessorLoader.loadProcessors(ProcessorLoader.kt:45)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.Kapt.kapt(Kapt.kt:42)
        ... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
        ... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
        ... 34 more

Answer 1

Android Studio 4.2.0 and more now comes with Java 11.0.8 shipped and will use it by default which cases this error in deprecated libraries.

The solution is simple, you need to change it to java (JDK) 1.8 in the menu File > Project Structure > JDK Location

Notices that Android Studio lower than 4.2.0 comes with java 1.8 already

Answer 2

By doing the following steps I solved this problem without replacing JDK with JAVA 8.

Step 1 : Update the distributionUrl to https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.3-bin.zip in your gradle-wrapper.properties

Step 2: Update your gradle tool classpath to 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1' in your root buid.gradle

Answer 3

I had same issue, and I alrady solved. I found that Android studio 4.2 will make the JDK update to Java11, it will cause error what you described.

You can delete the Java11 JDK and replace by Java8 (/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home).

Also you can uninstall the Android Studio, and reinstall it.