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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when marking a jar as provided

I have the follwing dependency in my webapp: 

<!-- swagger -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.mangofactory</groupId>
    <artifactId>swagger-springmvc</artifactId>
    <version>${version.swagger.springmvc}</version>
</dependency>

I want to reduce the size of the war file so I marked the swagger jar as provided:

<!-- swagger -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.mangofactory</groupId>
    <artifactId>swagger-springmvc</artifactId>
    <version>${version.swagger.springmvc}</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

I added the swagger jar to tomcat's common lib folder so it should be provided by tomcat during runtime, but when i try to deply the app I got this exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load configuration class: com.mangofactory.swagger.configuration.DocumentationConfig
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:368)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanFactory(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:244)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:694)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:633)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:461)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:651)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:599)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:665)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:518)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:459)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1279)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1192)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1087)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5493)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/classmate/TypeResolver
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2688)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1962)
at org.springframework.cglib.core.ReflectUtils.addAllMethods(ReflectUtils.java:348)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.getMethods(Enhancer.java:421)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.generateClass(Enhancer.java:456)
at org.springframework.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:25)
at org.springframework.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.createHelper(Enhancer.java:377)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.createClass(Enhancer.java:317)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.createClass(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:118)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.enhance(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:92)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:358)
... 23 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.classmate.TypeResolver
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1718)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1569)
... 36 more

I notice that the problem is comming from the org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses but i have all the spring jar required declared in my pom without the provided scope also when running the webapp without the provided scope it work fine any idea?

Solution

  • I think the issue comes from another missing jar. In the stacktrace we see 

    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.classmate.TypeResolver

    The com.fasterxml.classmate.TypeResolver is present in the jar classmate.jar, which is a dependency from swagger-springmvc.

    When you use scope compile, the dependencies of swagger-springmvc are deployed as well. With scope provided, you have to provide the swagger-springmvc jar, but also all its dependencies. Here, you need to provided classmate.jar.