I am attempting to make my web application deployable to multiple environments and so scrubbing the configuration of fixed URLS (or at least converting them to be set programatically). the README for the https://github.com/Jasig/java-cas-client identifies a argument to https://github.com/Jasig/java-cas-client/blob/master/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/session/SingleSignOutFilter.java called casServerUrlPrefix that is marked required.
In my eagerness to strip fixed values from the configuration I removed this argument and received the following exception: 2016-02-11T19:17:37.583+0000|Severe: WebModule[/cas-sample-java-webapp]Exception starting filter CAS Single Sign Out Filter java.lang.InstantiationException at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:135) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:5329) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5943) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:691) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:1041) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:1024) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:747) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2286) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1932) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:139) at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:122) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:291) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:352) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:500) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:219) at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:491) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:539) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:535) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:360) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:534) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$3.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:565) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$3.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:557) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:360) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:556) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1464) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1300(CommandRunnerImpl.java:109) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1846) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1722) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.utils.ResourceUtil.runCommand(ResourceUtil.java:253) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.utils.ResourceUtil.runCommand(ResourceUtil.java:231) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.utils.ResourceUtil.runCommand(ResourceUtil.java:275) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.resources.TemplateListOfResource.createResource(TemplateListOfResource.java:133) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory$1.invoke(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:81) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:151) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:171) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$ResponseOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider.java:152) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:104) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:387) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:331) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:103) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$1.run(ServerRuntime.java:271) at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:271) at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:267) at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:315) at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:297) at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:267) at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:297) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:254) at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:1028) at org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpContainer.service(GrizzlyHttpContainer.java:365) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.adapter.RestAdapter$2.service(RestAdapter.java:316) at org.glassfish.admin.rest.adapter.RestAdapter.service(RestAdapter.java:179) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$HttpHandlerCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:459) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:167) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:201) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:175) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:235) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:284) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:201) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:133) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:112) at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77) at org.glassfish.grizzly.portunif.PUFilter.handleRead(PUFilter.java:231) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:284) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:201) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:133) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:112) at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77) at org.glassfish.grizzly.portunif.PUFilter.handleRead(PUFilter.java:231) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:284) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:201) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:133) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:112) at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77) at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:561) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:112) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:117) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:56) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:137) at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:565) at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:545) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: casServerUrlPrefix cannot be null. at org.jasig.cas.client.util.CommonUtils.assertNotNull(CommonUtils.java:86) at org.jasig.cas.client.session.SingleSignOutHandler.init(SingleSignOutHandler.java:140) at org.jasig.cas.client.session.SingleSignOutFilter.init(SingleSignOutFilter.java:55) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:131) ... 90 more However, the application seems to continue to deploy and function as expected. It appears this field is primarily used in https://github.com/Jasig/java-cas-client/blob/master/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/session/SingleSignOutHandler.java <https://github.com/Jasig/java-cas-client/blob/master/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/session/SingleSignOutHandler.java>for supporting front-channel single log out. Since front-channel was documented as experimental I have not relied on it (back-channel seems to meet my needs as far as I can tell). I am tempted to ignore this exception rather than construct some parameterization mechanism for web.xml (this is currently the only such field in this file). However, since back-channel SLO has a tendency to fail silently, wanted to confirm that I am safe in excluding this argument from my web.xml file despite the exception. Is some yet unnoticed component failing to be configured due to the exception above halting initialization? 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