How to deploy a JDO based EAR file on GlassFish?

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I'm really desperate right now, because I'm building a little application that is split up into several projects. There is a web application that uses Vaadin and an EJB container that should do the persistance stuff with JDO and DataNucleus. The hole project is build with Maven and I'm happy now that there comes out an EAR archive.

The content of the EAR file looks right to me. There are all dependency JARs in it, even duplicated inside the containing WAR file. It deploys without any error to the GlassFish server, but when I call the URL I get an ClassNotFoundException for the javax.jdo.JDOHelper class. The JAR jdo-api-3.0.jar exists, but GlassFish isn't able to locate it.

But why? Can anyone tell me? Please!

...and the stack trace... ;) The de.igeri.mmorpg.* stuff ist my project. But I think, you already guessed it.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/jdo/JDOHelper at de.igeri.mmorpg.common.dao.JDOManager.(JDOManager.java:22) at de.igeri.mmorpg.common.dao.JDOManager.(JDOManager.java:14) at de.igeri.mmorpg.common.dao.BuildingBeanFactory.getAvailable(BuildingBeanFactory.java:29) at de.igeri.mmorpg.ui.BuildingUiFactory.getAvailable(BuildingUiFactory.java:26) at de.igeri.mmorpg.MmorpgApplication.createBuildingsPanel(MmorpgApplication.java:75) at de.igeri.mmorpg.MmorpgApplication.createBuildWindow(MmorpgApplication.java:58) at de.igeri.mmorpg.MmorpgApplication.createLayout(MmorpgApplication.java:44) at de.igeri.mmorpg.MmorpgApplication.init(MmorpgApplication.java:29) at com.vaadin.Application.start(Application.java:554) at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.startApplication(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:1182) at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.service(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:466) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1534) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:98) at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:91) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:162) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:326) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:227) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:228) 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:636) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.jdo.JDOHelper at com.sun.enterprise.loader.ASURLClassLoader.findClassData(ASURLClassLoader.java:808) at com.sun.enterprise.loader.ASURLClassLoader.findClass(ASURLClassLoader.java:696) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) ... 37 more

If you mean the WAR file inside the EAR file... there is the `jdo-api-3.0.jar` in the `WEB-INF/lib` directory. — Christian Smolka, Jun 21 '11 at 17:32

Ebuzer Taha KANAT · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-03T01:47:52.413

My suggestion is add your jdo api and datanucleus libs to your app server as a module then in maven you can add dependencies as

and add datanucleus maven plugin like this :

   <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
                    <artifactId>datanucleus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>4.0.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <!-- <log4jConfiguration>src/main/resources/log4j.properties</log4jConfiguration> -->
<!-- this usefull if you dont want to get too long command error -->                        
<verbose>false</verbose>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <phase>compile</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>enhance</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>

then the most important part you must add your dependency to datanucleus in your manifest file!!! i'm pretty sure that in your case this was the problem.

In WildFly you can do it like this:

<plugin>
                <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${version.wildfly.maven.plugin}</version>
                <inherited>true</inherited>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                        </manifest>
                        <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
                        <manifestEntries>
                            <Dependencies>deployment.datanucleus-jdo-jca-5.0.0-m1.rar,
                                javax.jdo</Dependencies>
                        </manifestEntries>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

If you are not using jca adapter clearly you can delete that part. Or you can set maven to add your resources such as deployment descriptors or manifest file to your package INF directory.

How to deploy a JDO based EAR file on GlassFish?

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