Hi did you identify which classes was loaded from where? (in term of code path and not classloader). Once this is known it would be easier to solve it.
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://blog-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | JavaEE Factory <https://javaeefactory-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> 2017-03-10 1:21 GMT+01:00 KARR, DAVID <[email protected]>: > I'm currently using CXF 3.1.9 and Spring 4.3.5 in an app built with > Gradle, and running in Tomcat 8 (TomEE 7.0.1). > > I currently only specify the following explicit CXF dependencies: > ----------- > ['cxf-rt-rs-extension-providers', 'cxf-rt-management'].each { > compile "org.apache.cxf:${it}:3.1.9" > } > ----------- > > This gets several other artifacts transitively, including cxf-core. > > Up to now, the app has just been serving REST requests, and it's been > working fine. I'm now trying to add a simple request out to another > service, using ClientBuilder. When I try to send that message, I get this: > ------------ > SEVERE: Failed to determine BusFactory implementation class name. > java.lang.ClassCastException: class org.apache.cxf.bus.spring. > SpringBusFactory > at java.lang.Class.asSubclass(Class.java:3404) > at org.apache.cxf.BusFactory.getBusFactoryClass(BusFactory.java:390) > ------------ > > The occurrences of this error seem to imply that there is a classloading > issue with BusFactory. So, I turned on verbose classloading, and I did see > CXF classes being loaded from both the CXF jars in my webapp, and also in > the "lib" dir in TomEE, specifically the BusFactory class. However, in the > "system.properties" file in the "Server" definition in Eclipse, I have > "openejb.classloader.forced-load=org.springframework,org.apache.cxf" (and > also "disabled=true" in the "cxf.properties" and "cxf-rs.properties" > files). So, I appear to have the proper settings to make it load all the > CXF (and Spring) classes from my webapp, instead of from the container, but > it's not quite working. > > What else could be wrong here? >
