Jboss 6.4 Infinispan 8.2 and JGroups - ClassNotFoundException

I need some features from Infinispan 8+. Therefore I have updated my company app pom.xml with the newest Infinispan pom.

It was quite straightforward, but the app uses jgroups (or its default config in default-configs/default-jgroups-udp.xml - this location is different from previous versions of infinispan). The default versions have some parameters (and the XSD from Jgroups version 3.6) - so I also bumped jgroups to 3.6.8.Final as it looks like it is the intended version (and the version that does not complain about unknown parameters in default config in infinispan 8.2)

so the pom is the following:

         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jgroups</groupId>
            <artifactId>jgroups</artifactId>
            <version>3.6.8.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>
            <artifactId>infinispan-core</artifactId>                
            <version>8.2.0.Final</version>
        </dependency>

Anyway - this application starts with no problems using spring-boot with Jetty. I am pretty sure it would start on any application server.

But then I have no choice but to run it on JBoss 6.4. There I got an exception involving some jboss.as classes (this is kind of unexpected) during the deployment:

Caused by: org.infinispan.commons.CacheException: Unable to invoke method public void org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.start() on object of type JGroupsTransport
    at org.infinispan.commons.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeAccessibly(ReflectionUtil.java:172)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry$PrioritizedMethod.invoke(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:859)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.invokeStartMethods(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:628)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.internalStart(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:617)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.start(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:542)
    at org.infinispan.factories.GlobalComponentRegistry.start(GlobalComponentRegistry.java:234)
    ... 141 more
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at org.jgroups.conf.XmlConfigurator.<clinit>(XmlConfigurator.java:35)
    at org.jgroups.conf.ConfiguratorFactory.getStackConfigurator(ConfiguratorFactory.java:62)
    at org.jgroups.JChannel.<init>(JChannel.java:129)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.buildChannel(JGroupsTransport.java:419)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.initChannel(JGroupsTransport.java:320)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.initChannelAndRPCDispatcher(JGroupsTransport.java:366)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.start(JGroupsTransport.java:190)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.infinispan.commons.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeAccessibly(ReflectionUtil.java:168)
    ... 146 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.LogFactory from [Module "deployment.mymodule-5.0.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear.appName.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jgroups.logging.LogFactory.<clinit>(LogFactory.java:31)
    ... 158 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.LogFactory from [Module "deployment.mymodule-5.0.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear.appName.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:213)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:459)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:408)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:389)
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:134)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
    at org.jgroups.logging.LogFactory.<clinit>(LogFactory.java:28)
    ... 158 more

My guess is that org.jgroups.logging.LogFactory somehow discovers that is is running on a Jboss and tries to use org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.LogFactory but this version of Jboss does not have one. (the server directory EAP-6.4.0\modules\system\layers\base\org\jgroups\main contains jgroups version 3.2.X).

Is there any walkaround to use this jgroups version (and so Infinispan 8.2) in Jboss 6.4?

This is (the application) an ear file so I can manipulate jboss-deployment-structure.xml file, but so far I only came with excluding Jboss original jgroups, and this did not help.

 <exclusions>
        <module name="org.jgroups"/>
 </exclusions>

Solution

This is currently bug with Infinispan 8 + EAP 6.4 combination. The reason is exactly as @Flavius says in comments. Currently there is discussion where to fix it, but it'll mostly likely be fixed in EAP 6.4. I'm sure it will be done soon.

I can only offer you a working workarounds.

Use WildFly - the issue is not present there anymore
Little nasty workaround, but it works:
1. Call System.clearProperty("jgroups.logging.log_factory_class"); in the deployment
2. Include JBoss Logging of version specified in infinispan-bom in your deployment (e.g. add jboss-logging Maven dependency in your pom.xml)
3. Provide jboss-deployment-structure.xml to your deployment, which excludes the server's JBoss logging, see below:

    <jboss-deployment-structure>
        <deployment>
            <exclusions>
                <module name="org.jboss.logging" />
            </exclusions>
        </deployment>
    </jboss-deployment-structure>