sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy error when deploy web-ear

Question

When I try to deploy ejd-ear, web-ear on to glassfish server. I added an ejb client dependency in web project. The ejb-ear deploys successfully. But when I try to deploy web-ear, it throws an exception .

sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:653)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:460)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:286)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:222)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:69)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:52)
    at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3070)
    at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3050)
    at org.glassfish.apf.impl.AnnotationProcessorImpl.processAnnotations(AnnotationProcessorImpl.java:285)
    at org.glassfish.apf.impl.AnnotationProcessorImpl.process(AnnotationProcessorImpl.java:195)
    at org.glassfish.apf.impl.AnnotationProcessorImpl.process(AnnotationProcessorImpl.java:134)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.processAnnotations(Archivist.java:606)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readAnnotations(Archivist.java:459)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readAnnotations(Archivist.java:432)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readRestDeploymentDescriptors(Archivist.java:408)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readDeploymentDescriptors(Archivist.java:383)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:246)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:255)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open(Archivist.java:216)
    at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.ApplicationFactory.openArchive(ApplicationFactory.java:165)
    at org.glassfish.javaee.core.deployment.DolProvider.load(DolProvider.java:180)
    at org.glassfish.javaee.core.deployment.DolProvider.load(DolProvider.java:93)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.loadDeployer(ApplicationLifecycle.java:826)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.setupContainerInfos(ApplicationLifecycle.java:768)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:368)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:240)
    at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:370)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:355)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:370)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1067)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1200(CommandRunnerImpl.java:96)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1247)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1235)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:465)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.service(AdminAdapter.java:222)
    at com.sun.grizzly.tcp.http11.GrizzlyAdapter.service(GrizzlyAdapter.java:168)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.HK2Dispatcher.dispath(HK2Dispatcher.java:117)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:234)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:822)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:719)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1013)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
    at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I think the best way is to put a break point in the constructor of java.lang.TypeNotPresentException and check the second argument of type Throwable to know the root cause

Answer 2

Had the same exception recently with JUnit. The situation was like this:

@SuiteClasses({MyTestClass.class})
public class MySuite {
    ...
}

Problem is that JVM was unable to process MyTestClass because it was missing dependencies in the classpath (another JAR file was missing). But the exception provided no information on which class was missing.

Solution was to temporarily add a static initialization block to MySuite, that instantiates MyTestClass:

@SuiteClasses({MyTestClass.class})
public class MySuite {
    static {
        new MyTestClass();
    }
}

this causes JVM to run the static block first, try to instantiate MyTestClass, find out the missing class and report a proper exception. Then you can add the missing dependency and remove the temporary static block.

Answer 3

We actually just ran into the same Exception. We have a project that we currently transfer from Java to Kotlin. In the project, all test classes were written in Kotlin and therefore we named the folder src/test/kotlin. We also configured our pom according to the 'Compiling Kotlin and Java sources' section in the Kotlin documentation.

What we had forgotten was the test directory definition described in the ' Compiling Kotlin only source code' section:

<build> <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/test/kotlin</testSourceDirectory> </build>

It has also been a bit confusing that the IntelliJ auto compilation compiled all test classes as required and afterwards also the maven build was successful. Only after a mvn clean test the TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy occurred.