There is AnnotationException when try to deploy ear on websphere 8.5.5.13?

Question

There is application on spring 4.13 So, when try to deploy ear-file on websphere 8.5.5.13 - there is error message

[12/18/18 14:56:41:946 MSK] 00000086 AnnotationCon E CWMDF0002E: Annotation processing failed with the following error: com.ibm.ws.metadata.annotations.AnnotationException: Annotation processing failed for class: META-INF/versions/9/javax/xml/bind/ModuleUtil.class

What kind of issue is it? This is may be installation error or error incompalebility of application and server libs?

application has intrance point

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"spring"})
public class WebAppInitalizer implements WebApplicationInitializer {
    private static final String CONFIG_LOCATION = "spring.config";
    private static final String MAPPING_URL = "/*";

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        System.out.println(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ONSTARTUP <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
        WebApplicationContext context = getContext();
        servletContext.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(context));
        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = servletContext.addServlet("DispatcherServlet", new DispatcherServlet(context));
        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        dispatcher.addMapping(MAPPING_URL);
        System.out.println(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ONSTARTUP END <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
    }

    private AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext getContext() {
        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
        context.setConfigLocation(CONFIG_LOCATION);
        return context;
    }
}

and configs are

package spring.config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "spring")
public class AppConfig {
}


   package spring.config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
}

and test controller is:

package spring.controller;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class TestController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/greeting")
    public String healthCheck() {
        return "greeting";
    }

}

Answer 1

The error message is complaining about a class under META-INF/versions/9 directory. That location indicates that you have a multi-release JAR with java V9 classes. WAS does not support Java V9 classes, but code has been added to tolerate them in multi-release JARs.

Multi-release JARs did not exist until after WAS 8.5.5 and WAS 9.0 were released. Five APARs were created for WAS 8.5.5 to address the problems that were discovered as multi-release JARs began to be added to applications. The list of APARs is below. Note that 3 APARs were included in 8.5.5.14 and the other 2 are in 8.5.5.15. You may not need all of them. It depends on your application, and in one case, the order in which the application classes are scanned.

There is a 6th APAR for WAS V9, which is only for performance. It is not applicable to WAS 8.5.5.

Bottom line: For full tolerance of multi-release JARs you need to move up to 8.5.5.15 or 9.0.0.10 or apply all of the APARs below.

1. PI89708 – 8.5.5.14, 9.0.0.7
2. PI93744 – 8.5.5.14, 9.0.0.8
3. PI96826 – 8.5.5.14, 9.0.0.8
4. PH02014 – 8.5.5.15, 9.0.0.10
5. PH03710 – 8.5.5.15, 9.0.0.10
6. PI98450 - N/A , 9.0.0.9

Answer 2

You need PI96826 in the very next fixpack

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI96826

Java V9 multi-release JARs contain Java V9 classes under the META-INF directory tree. The existence of Java V9 classes causes application start to fail with an exception similar to the following: