Hi,
Had a quick look at your example: https://github.com/javac9/tomee-with-jwt-demo
You shouldn’t bundle the API’s in your web app. In TomEE, these libs are
shipped with the container, i.e
should be in compileOnly scope:
implementation("org.apache.tomee:jakartaee-api:10.0")
implementation("org.eclipse.microprofile.jwt:microprofile-jwt-auth-api:2.1“)
If you change that and do a full WAR rebuild, the web app will deploy:
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.859 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints REST
Application: http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api ->
com.example.tomeewithjwtdemo.HelloApplication@5fd8302e
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints Service
URI: http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/health -> Pojo
org.apache.tomee.microprofile.health.MicroProfileHealthChecksEndpoint
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/health -> Response
getChecks()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/health/live -> Response
getLiveChecks()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/health/ready -> Response
getReadyChecks()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/health/started -> Response
getStartedChecks()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints Service
URI: http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/v1 -> Pojo
com.example.tomeewithjwtdemo.HelloResource
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/v1/admin -> String helloAdmin()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.862 INFO [main]
org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.rs.CxfRsHttpListener.logEndpoints
GET http://localhost:8080/demoapp/api/v1/user -> String hello()
tomee | 11-Jul-2025 18:00:33.880 INFO [main] java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke
Deployment of web application archive [/usr/local/tomee/webapps/demoapp.war]
has finished in [1,420] ms
Since I don’t have a key cloak setup available, it will subsequently fail ;-)
Gruß
Richard
> Am 11.07.2025 um 14:54 schrieb Java Entwicklung <javac.ay...@gmail.com>:
>
> ```
> # Tested with:
> tomee docker image: tomee:plus
> org.eclipse.microprofile.jwt:microprofile-jwt-auth-api:2.1
>
> # but same is with:
> tomee docker image: tomee:10.1-jre21-plus
> org.eclipse.microprofile.jwt:microprofile-jwt-auth-api:2.2-RC1
> ```
>
> Hello,
>
> I created a demo Jakarta EE 10 app and configured it so it authenticates
> incoming requests to my protected resource against my Keycloak instance.
>
> It works successfully with Payara Micro 6 but with TomEE 10.0 (which is
> what I need and have to use) it fails on startup with the following:
> ```
> 11-Jul-2025 11:55:42.801 WARNING [main]
> org.apache.batchee.container.services.ServicesManager.init You didn't
> specify org.apache.batchee.jmx.application and JMX is already registered,
> skipping
> 2025-07-11T11:55:42.804794711Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:42.804 INFO [main]
> org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication Deployed
> Application(path=/usr/local/tomee/webapps/demoapp)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.426149580Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.425 INFO [main]
> org.apache.myfaces.webapp.MyFacesContainerInitializer.onStartup Using
> org.apache.myfaces.webapp.MyFacesContainerInitializer
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.614818412Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.614 INFO [main]
> org.apache.myfaces.webapp.MyFacesContainerInitializer.onStartup Added
> FacesServlet with mappings=[/faces/*, *.jsf, *.faces, *.xhtml]
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628173897Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.626 SEVERE [main]
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke Error deploying web application archive
> [/usr/local/tomee/webapps/demoapp.war]
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628209564Z java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error
> starting child
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628212292Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:602)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628214272Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:571)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628215708Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:654)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628217070Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:965)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628218545Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1903)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628219991Z at
> java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown
> Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628221298Z at
> java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628222601Z at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628224008Z at
> java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(Unknown
> Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628236311Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:769)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628238350Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:420)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628239666Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1621)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628241335Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:303)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628255587Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:109)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628256899Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:389)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628258590Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setState(LifecycleBase.java:336)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628259958Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:776)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628261506Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:772)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628263034Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628274187Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1203)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628275693Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1193)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628277030Z at
> java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628280369Z at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628281839Z at
> java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(Unknown
> Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628283322Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:749)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628284925Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:203)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628286472Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628287734Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:412)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628289236Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628290566Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:870)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628292404Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628293861Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:761)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628295318Z at
> java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628301199Z at
> java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628302697Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:345)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628304266Z at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:476)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628305690Z Caused by:
> org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component
> [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/demoapp]]
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628307498Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.handleSubClassException(LifecycleBase.java:406)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628309026Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:179)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628310551Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:599)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628312065Z ... 35 more
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628313380Z Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException:
> Cannot invoke "org.eclipse.microprofile.auth.LoginConfig.authMethod()"
> because "loginConfig" is null
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628315144Z at
> org.apache.tomee.microprofile.jwt.MPJWTInitializer.onStartup(MPJWTInitializer.java:45)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628316658Z at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:4464)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628320249Z at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.628321622Z ... 36 more
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.632485224Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.632 INFO [main]
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke Deployment of web application archive
> [/usr/local/tomee/webapps/demoapp.war] has finished in [3,177] ms
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.637611803Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.637 INFO [main]
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
> 2025-07-11T11:55:43.649430271Z 11-Jul-2025 11:55:43.649 INFO [main]
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke Server startup in [3311] milliseconds
> ```
> Here's how I configured it:
>
> ```
> @ApplicationScoped
> @ApplicationPath("/api")
> @LoginConfig(authMethod="MP-JWT")
> @DeclareRoles({
> "admin-role",
> "user-role"
> })
> public class HelloApplication extends Application {
>
> }
>
> // is a separate class
> @Path("/v1")
> @Produces("text/plain")
> public class HelloResource {
>
> @GET
> @Path("/admin")
> @RolesAllowed("admin-role")
> public String helloAdmin() {
> return "Hello, Admin!";
> }
>
> @GET
> @Path("/user")
> public String hello() {
> return "Hello, user!";
> }
>
> }
> ```
>
> In `src/main/resources/META-INF/microprofile-config.properties` I have:
> ```
> # JWT Configuration
> mp.jwt.verify.issuer=http://auth.localhost:8090/realms/myrealm
> mp.jwt.verify.publickey.location=
> http://auth.localhost:8090/realms/myrealm/protocol/openid-connect/certs
> ```
> and my `src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml` contains:
> ```
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <web-app xmlns="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xsi:schemaLocation="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee
> https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/web-app_6_0.xsd";
> version="6.0">
>
>
> </web-app>
> ```
>
> I run gradle war, mount it to my tomee container's deployment dir and start
> it. Again, this exact setup worked perfectly with Payara - the idea was to
> make sure the config is correct before trying to solve startup issue in
> TomEE (sure, TomEE might require something differently).
>
>
> Note that removing `@LoginConfig(authMethod="MP-JWT")` annotation on the
> class and using:
> ```
> <login-config>
> <auth-method>MP-JWT</auth-method>
> </login-config>
> ```
> doesn't have the same effect! There is no such startup error but all
> resources return `404 Not found`.
>
> Also note that I have tested with various other TomEE flavours of version
> 10 - but no difference.
