Upgrade Java 8 to Java 11 and kafka conflicts

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Hi All,

We upgraded one of the spring boot-based microservice to Java 11 from 8. Post-up-gradation facing some issue with KafkaConfiguration bean initialization issue. Maven build is getting success, but when trying to execute the application facing the below error stack trace. The Kafka version used is kafka_2.13-2.7.0 and ensured that Java 11 is installed as Java_home with echo $JAVA_VERSION.mohammedsardar$ echo $JAVA_HOME/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-11.jdk/Contents/Home

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement
at com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.<init>(JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java:139) ~[jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.10.jar:2.9.10]

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) ~[na:an]

Anyone has seen this issue before? Any idea will really help me a lot.  Thanks.

[Liutauras Vilda]

Hi,

Read this article written by one of coderanch moderators: https://www.jesperdj.com/2018/09/30/jaxb-on-java-9-10-11-and-beyond/

I'm not entirely sure I know all the details about your scenario, but that sounds similar to what's in the article.

[Rob Spoor]

It's exactly the same thing. In Java 11, all of the so-called JEE modules were removed from the SDK. One of those is JAXB, and that's the one that's missing, as you can see from the root package javax.xml.bind. Jesper's article explains both the issue and the proper solution.

Just one warning with the jakarta.xml.bind dependency (and its implementation). The 3.x versions changed the root package from javax to jakarta, so you'll need to stick with version 2.3.x. And where Jesper mentions com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl, I prefer org.glassfish.jaxb:jaxb-runtime.

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Thanks all for sharing throughts and link. For some unknown reason, I couldn't download the below dependency either from nexus or from maven repos. I ensured I follow the proper URL in the .m2 folder settings.xml. After spending some long hours, manually downloaded the below jar and added it to the local maven repo. Then tried to execute the application but still ended up with the error.  The screenshot shows, manually added XML. bind dependency to the external library. Maven build was a success. Do we have any debugging techniques to reach the root cause of the issue? Any issue in dependency setup?

I observe looks something different from the shown error in the link. Actually, I'm getting Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement
at com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.<init>(JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java:139) ~[jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.10.jar:2.9.10]

<dependency>       <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>       <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>       <version>3.0.1</version> </dependency>

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Sharing some more lengthy stack traces for better understanding. some of the package names are masked due to security reason.

Bean instantiation via constructor failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.xxx.orc.payments.api.config.KafkaConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$b11914e9]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement
2022-01-09T13:08:45.562+05:30 ERROR [org-payments,,,] 4880 --- [TraceId:] [UserId:] [UserScope:] [           main] o.s.b.SpringApplication                  : Application run failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'kafkaConfiguration'
payments/api/config/KafkaConfiguration.class]: Bean instantiation via constructor failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:304) ~[spring-beans-5.1.12.RELEASE.jar:5.1.12.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:285) ~[spring-beans-5.1.12.RELEASE.jar:5.1.12.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1340) ~[spring-beans-5.1.12.RELEASE.jar:5.1.12.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1186) ~[spring-beans-5.1.12.RELEASE.jar:5.1.12.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:555) ~[spring-beans-5.1.12.RELEASE.jar:5.1.12.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement
at com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.<init>(JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java:139) ~[jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.10.jar:2.9.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.<init>(JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java:126) ~[jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.10.jar:2.9.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationModule.setupModule(JaxbAnnotationModule.java:90) ~[jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.10.jar:2.9.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.registerModule(ObjectMapper.java:751) ~[jackson-databind-2.9.10.1.jar:2.9.10.1]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.registerModules(ObjectMapper.java:951) ~[jackson-databind-2.9.10.1.jar:2.9.10.1]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.findAndRegisterModules(ObjectMapper.java:1029) ~[jackson-databind-2.9.10.1.jar:2.9.10.1]
at com.xxxx.core.messaging.spring.kafka.AbstractKafkaConfiguration.<init>(AbstractKafkaConfiguration.java:61) ~[spring-kafka-support-2.12.0.jar:2.12.0]
at com.xxxx.orc.payments.api.config.KafkaConfiguration.<init>(KafkaConfiguration.java:16) ~[classes/:na]
at com.yyyy.orc.payments.api.config.KafkaConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$b11914e9.<init>(<generated>) ~[classes/:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[na:na]
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490) ~[na:an]
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) ~[na:na]
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) ~[na:na]
... 43 common frames omitted

[Mohammed Sardar.]

I'm able to import the dependency after including it in the respective sub-module instead of root pom. I thought the dependency would be inherited from root pom but that didn't work.  I still need to understand why is it so. How the root pom dependencies can be reused in another sub-module pom?

[Rob Spoor]

It depends where in your root pom you include the dependencies. If it's directly under dependencies (which you shouldn't usually do), then these dependencies should definitely be inherited. If it's under dependencyManagement/dependencies, then those are only declarations of dependencies; you mostly use them for the version, and possibly exclusions. Modules then still need to include the dependency itself, but this time only the groupId and artifactId are needed, the rest is taken from the dependencyManagement.