I have an application which is packaged in an ear file and leverages EJB/JPA. One of my entity classes uses the OpenJPA-specific ElementJoinColumn annotation. When I deploy this application on Geronimo 2.0.2 on Linux using the Sun JVM, everything works correctly. But, if I attempt this using the IBM 32-bit 1.5 or 1.6 LInux JVMs, I get the following warning when the geronimo server starts up:
3761 myPU WARN [main] openjpa.Enhance - An exception was thrown while attempting to perform class file transformation on "com/my/company/ejb/entity/MyClass": java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type org.apache.openjpa.persistence.jdbc.ElementJoinColumn not present at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getAnnotation(AnnotationHelper.java:38) at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getDeclaredAnnotations(AnnotationHelper.java:50) at com.ibm.oti.reflect.Method.getDeclaredAnnotations(Method.java:31) at java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaredAnnotations(Method.java:722) at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.getAnnotations(AccessibleObject.java:191) at com.ibm.oti.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:20) at java.lang.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:711) at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.isAnnotationPresent(AccessibleObject.java:187) at org.apache.openjpa.lib.util.J2DoPriv5Helper$3.run(J2DoPriv5Helper.java:87) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:197) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.getPersistenceStrategy(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:119) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.isDefaultPersistent(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:315) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.AbstractMetaDataDefaults.populateFromReflection(AbstractMetaDataDefaults.java:241) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.AbstractMetaDataDefaults.populate(AbstractMetaDataDefaults.java:168) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.populate(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:225) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.addMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:752) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.addMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:738) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.getMetaData(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:651) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.parseClassAnnotations(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:479) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.parse(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:351) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataFactory.load(PersistenceMetaDataFactory.java:229) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.getMetaDataInternal(MetaDataRepository.java:433) at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.getMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:288) at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.<init>(PCEnhancer.java:244) at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.<init>(PCEnhancer.java:215) at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCClassFileTransformer.transform(PCClassFileTransformer.java:127) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl$ClassTransformerImpl.transform(PersistenceProviderImpl.java:170) at org.apache.geronimo.persistence.TransformerWrapper.transform(TransformerWrapper.java:43) at org.apache.geronimo.transformer.TransformerCollection.transform(TransformerCollection.java:43) at sun.instrument.TransformerManager.transform(TransformerManager.java:141) at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.transform(InstrumentationImpl.java:174) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:258) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:151) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:589) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$400(URLClassLoader.java:123) at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:1034) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:279) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:491) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadOptimizedClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:431) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:279) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:597) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:68) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:129) at java.lang.Class.forNameImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:163) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.load(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:375) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.loadClass(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:355) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.build(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:75) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EjbJarBuilder.build(EjbJarBuilder.java:52) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:489) at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createEjbJar(Assembler.java:370) at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.OpenEjbSystemGBean.createEjbJar(OpenEjbSystemGBean.java:391) at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.EjbModuleImpl.start(EjbModuleImpl.java:123) at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.EjbModuleImplGBean.doStart(EjbModuleImplGBean.java:39) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:998) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:268) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.start(GBeanInstance.java:541) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency.attemptFullStart(GBeanDependency.java:111) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency.addTarget(GBeanDependency.java:146) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency$1.running(GBeanDependency.java:120) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:176) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.access$300(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:44) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor$RawLifecycleBroadcaster.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:254) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:294) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:555) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:456) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.KernelConfigurationManager.start(KernelConfigurationManager.java:188) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:562) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor25.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:832) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.EditableConfigurationManager$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$ac6db992.startConfiguration(<generated>) at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.EmbeddedDaemon.doStartup(EmbeddedDaemon.java:162) at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.EmbeddedDaemon.execute(EmbeddedDaemon.java:79) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.main(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:45) at org.apache.geronimo.cli.AbstractCLI.executeMain(AbstractCLI.java:67) at org.apache.geronimo.cli.daemon.DaemonCLI.main(DaemonCLI.java:30) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.jdbc.ElementJoinColumn at java.lang.Class.forNameImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:163) at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getAnnotation(AnnotationHelper.java:33) ... 88 more This effectively breaks things at runtime since OpenJPA ends up in a bad state. It should be noted that I have tried this with Geronimo 2.1.3 as well, but get the same error. The version info for the JVMs I am using is as follows: java version "1.5.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pxi32devifx-20080811b (SR8a)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux x86-32 j9vmxi3223ifx-20080811 (JIT enabled) J9VM - 20080809_21892_lHdSMr JIT - 20080620_1845_r8 GC - 200806_19) JCL - 20080811a java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxi3260sr2-20080818_01(SR2)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux x86-32 jvmxi3260-20080816_22093 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) J9VM - 20080816_022093_lHdSMr JIT - r9_20080721_1330ifx2 GC - 20080724_AA) JCL - 20080808_02 It should also be noted that I am seeing the same error when using the IBM JVM on AIX. Any insight into what might be causing this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Brian
