ArchiveException: Could not build ClassFile

Question

I got stuck with a problem with an EAR deployment on JBOSS 10.1.2

I get the foolowing exception:

Caused by: org.hibernate.boot.archive.spi.ArchiveException: Could not build ClassFile
    at org.hibernate.boot.archive.scan.spi.ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.toClassFile(ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.java:64)
    at org.hibernate.boot.archive.scan.spi.ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.handleEntry(ClassFileArchiveEntryHandler.java:47)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.processVirtualFile(VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.java:94)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.processVirtualFile(VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.java:69)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.processVirtualFile(VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.java:69)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.visitArchive(VirtualFileSystemArchiveDescriptor.java:49)
    at org.hibernate.boot.archive.scan.spi.AbstractScannerImpl.scan(AbstractScannerImpl.java:47)
    at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.internal.ScanningCoordinator.coordinateScan(ScanningCoordinator.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.prepare(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:98)
    at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:199)
    at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:149)
    at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.spi.Bootstrap.getEntityManagerFactoryBuilder(Bootstrap.java:28)
    at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.spi.Bootstrap.getEntityManagerFactoryBuilder(Bootstrap.java:40)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.<init>(TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.java:39)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.HibernatePersistenceProviderAdaptor.getBootstrap(HibernatePersistenceProviderAdaptor.java:159)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl.createContainerEntityManagerFactoryBuilder(PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:242)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl.access$800(PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:59)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1$1.run(PhaseOnePersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:117)
    ... 7 more

I looked on the internet and found out, that this exception comes because of different javassist version.

The answers in this post on stackoverflow were not usefull, because I neither use Spring, nor Weblogic, nor Thymyleaf.

There are two libraries which use javassist: Hibernate and org.reflections. Using Maven dependency tree I can find following out:

for org.reflections

[INFO] |  +- org.reflections:reflections:jar:0.9.11:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- (com.google.guava:guava:jar:20.0:compile - omitted for conflict with 21.0)
[INFO] |  |  \- (org.javassist:javassist:jar:3.21.0-GA:compile - omitted for conflict with 3.20.0-GA)

for Hibernate:

[INFO] |  |  +- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:5.2.8.Final:provided
[INFO] |  |  |  +- (org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.3.0.Final:provided - omitted for conflict with 3.1.4.GA)
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api:jar:1.0.0.Final:provided
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.javassist:javassist:jar:3.20.0-GA:provided

My lib folder of the EAR contains

hibernate-core-5.2.8.Final.jar
javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar

JBOSS has also a module for javassists with

javassist-3.18.1.GA-redhat-2.jar

Now I am a little bit confused about the whole problem. I tried to remove references for org.reflections, but the deployment still failed.

Has anyone an idea?

EDIT

Ok, I found out which library causes exception:

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.google.template</groupId>
   <artifactId>soy</artifactId>
   <version>2018-01-03</version>
</dependency>

But I stil don't know how to solve the problem.

EDIT

Ok, I tried to use the previous maven version of the libarary (2017-08-08) and it works. Don't know what the issue can be. Should possibly report it to the library owner on Github. If anyone has an idea you are welcome.

Good troubleshooting methodology - glad to see you got it going — JGlass, Jan 22 '18 at 15:30
try override using `compile('org.javassist:javassist:3.22.0-GA') // remove transitive buggy dependency` — WallSky Blue, Apr 19 '18 at 12:24
I had this issue and upgrading the maven-shade-plugin from 2.4.3 to 3.1.1 fixed it. — GlenPeterson, Jul 12 '18 at 17:34

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 10 '19 at 18:49

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As mentioned by @GlenPeterson in the comments:

I had this issue and upgrading the maven-shade-plugin from 2.4.3 to 3.1.1 fixed it.

Upgrading the maven-shade-plugin from 2.4.3 to 3.2.1 (latest one right now) worked. I saw that the shade plugin created a slightly smaller uber jar.

edited Apr 10 '19 at 18:49

Bhargav Rao

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answered Apr 10 '19 at 18:19

awd020

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 07 '20 at 08:29

The problem is caused by javassist conflict

you can use: mvn dependency:tree, find which jar include javassist
you can exclude it:

<dependency>
    <groupId>xxx</groupId>
    <artifactId>xxx</artifactId>
    <version>xxxx</version>
    <exclusions>
        <!-- 排除javassist-->
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>javassist</groupId>
            <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

ArchiveException: Could not build ClassFile

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