ClassFormatError when using javaee:javaee-api

[Drew Rampulla]

I receive "java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is 
not native or abstract in class file 
javax/resource/spi/ResourceAdapterInternalException" when I try to use OpenEJB 
as a container for my unit tests.  I believe this has something to do with 
including the dependency javaee:javaee-api:5 instead of using the javaee-api 
that is included in OpenEJB.  Does anyone know why I can't use 
javaee:javaee-api:5 in my Maven pom file?

I'll cut/past the pom file to illustrate my point.


<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>ejbwithunittests-ejb</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>ejb</packaging>

    <name>EJB With Unit Tests - EJB</name>

    <properties>
        <jboss.home>${env.JBOSS_HOME}</jboss.home>
        <jboss.servername>default</jboss.servername>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.6</version>
        </dependency>

<!--When I leave this in it fails, but when I comment it out and put the 
openejb version back in, it works -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javaee</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
            <version>5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
<!--
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.openejb</groupId>
      <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
      <version>5.0-2</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openejb</groupId>
            <artifactId>openejb-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.1</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.0.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.6</source>
                        <target>1.6</target>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
                    <!--
                            This is insane that I need to specify this, you 
would think that
                            the stupid thing would assume that all dependecies 
should be
                            included in the package, but whatever... POS
                    -->
                    <configuration>
                        <archive>
                            <manifest>
                                <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                            </manifest>
                        </archive>
                        <ejbVersion>3.0</ejbVersion>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>

                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jboss-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>1.3.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <jbossHome>${jboss.home}</jbossHome>
                        <serverName>${jboss.servername}</serverName>
                        <hostName>localhost</hostName>
                        <port>8080</port>
                        <!-- I have no idea why this won't work with deploy, 
but i need to use harddeploy for now -->
                        
<deployUrlPath><![CDATA[/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=invokeOpByName&name=jboss.system:service%3DMainDeployer&methodName=deploy&argType=java.net.URL&arg0=]]>
                        </deployUrlPath>
                        
<undeployUrlPath><![CDATA[/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=invokeOpByName&name=jboss.system:service%3DMainDeployer&methodName=undeploy&argType=java.net.URL&arg0=]]>
                        </undeployUrlPath>
                    </configuration>

                </plugin>

            </plugins>

        </pluginManagement>
    </build>


    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>java.net1</id>
            <name>Java.Net Maven1 Repository, hosts the javaee-api 
dependency</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/1</url>
            <layout>legacy</layout>
        </repository>

        <repository>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
            <id>restlib</id>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <name>Repository for library Library[restlib]</name>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

</project>

Andrew Rampulla

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