That can be tough to solve because frequently you will get a NoClassDefFoundError on Class A even though it is there because it has a reference to Class B or something in Class B and it isn’t there. Unfortunately, the JVM isn’t very good about letting you know what is actually missing.
Ralph > On Jan 16, 2017, at 12:25 PM, COHEN, STEVEN M <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Ralph, for busting my theory of the case. :-) > > I built a test application, from one of the examples floating around on the > Internet, added log4j2 to it, built the client and ran it on my server. It > worked without incident, disproving my theory. > > Ugh, now to figure out how to debug java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Apache [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:43 AM > To: Log4J Users List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: jboss-logging vs log4j2 in ejb-client application > > Can you provide a test application along with a link to the JBoss version you > are using? I haven’t worked with JBoss in several years but would happy to > take a look - if for no other reason than to do something with LOG4J2-18. > > Ralph > >> On Jan 16, 2017, at 9:11 AM, COHEN, STEVEN M <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Our team is fairly standardized on using log4j2 over log4j, commons-logging >> or any other framework. >> >> This had presented some issues with jboss-eap which does not support log4j2. >> Nevertheless, for applications running on the jboss-server it was fairly >> easy, and even a good thing to package log4j2 as a jboss module and do all >> our application logging through that. Let JBoss use jboss-logging for its >> internal use. >> >> I believe this pattern has now broken down over a standalone client >> application that talks to the EJBs we deploy on another server. Although I >> can easily put log4j2 on the runtime classpath of this application, the >> client libraries that one must also include in order to talk to JBoss, need >> jboss-logging. So I have both sets of jars on my classpath. I believe that >> this has resulted in >> >> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class >> org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext >> >> errors at runtime. >> >> I am not sure that the logging conflict is the reason, but at this point I >> am "liking" this theory as my #1 suspect. I have looked at all the >> dependency graphs and find that nothing is missing, so what else could it be? >> >> I could switch to log4j1 for the client app, but some of our code must run >> on jboss so that isn't a good solution. >> >> Is there a standard way to handle this that I could try to prevent any >> conflicts? >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
