javaloggingclasspathclassloaderintuit-partner-platform

Caused By: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger

I've got an interesting problem in which the org.apache.log4j.Logger class is not found during runtime. I'm trying to get authorized and that is where it's failing:

OAuthAuthorizer oauthAuthorizer = new OAuthAuthorizer(OAUTH_CONSUMER_KEY, OAUTH_CONSUMER_SECRET, SAML_PROVIDER_ID, userId);

I'm using JDeveloper 11.1.1.6. Here is what I know:

  1. I've looked in my UI.war/WEB-INF/lib directory and I see the log4j-1.2.17.jar there.

  2. The class complaining about it is org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator

    Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger
    at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.<clinit>(XMLConfigurator.java:60)
    at org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.initializeXMLTooling(DefaultBootstrap.java:195)
    at org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(DefaultBootstrap.java:91)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.SAML2AssertionGenerator.getSAMLBuilder(SAML2AssertionGenerator.java:156)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.SAML2AssertionGenerator.createSubject(SAML2AssertionGenerator.java:187)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.SAML2AssertionGenerator.buildAssertion(SAML2AssertionGenerator.java:114)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.SAML2AssertionGenerator.generateSignedAssertion(SAML2AssertionGenerator.java:83)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.SamlUtil.createSignedSAMLPayload(SamlUtil.java:156)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.util.OAuthUtil.getOAuthTokens(OAuthUtil.java:60)
    at com.intuit.ipp.aggcat.core.OAuthAuthorizer.<init>(OAuthAuthorizer.java:85)
    at com.incomemax.view.intuit.WebUtil.getAggCatService(WebUtil.java:91)

    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.Logger
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:305)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:246)
    ... 64 more

  3. I decomplied XMLConfigurator and oddly it doesn't import org.apache.log4j.Logger It uses org.slf4j.Logger which is also in my jars directory (slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar). Also interesting is that line 60 (see stack trace) is a blank line in my decompile.

  4. Of course if I add Logger.xxxxx during design time, it finds it just fine.

  5. I'm using the code/jars directly from the sample java code, but imported into my existing application.

I've been scouring the web for answers and I believe I've checked all the areas I can think of. I also referenced this very good page: http://myarch.com/classnotfound/

Given authorization is step 1 in using the Intuit Developer API, I'm kinda stuck.

Adding output from @jhadesdev suggestion:

All versions of log4j Logger:

All versions of log4j visible from the classloader of the OAuthAuthorizer class:

All versions of XMLConfigurator:

All versions of XMLConfigurator visible from the class loader of the OAuthAuthorizer class:

I'm still working on interpreting the results.

Solution

  • With the suggestions @jhadesdev and the explanations from others, I've found the issue here.

    After adding the code to see what was visible to the various class loaders I found this:

    All versions of log4j Logger: 
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar!/org/apache/log4j/Logger.class

All versions of log4j visible from the classloader of the OAuthAuthorizer class: 
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar!/org/apache/log4j/Logger.class

All versions of XMLConfigurator: 
  jar:<snip>com.bea.core.bea.opensaml2_1.0.0.0_6-1-0-0.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/ipp-java-aggcat-v1-devkit-1.0.2.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/xmltooling-1.3.1.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class

All versions of XMLConfigurator visible from the classloader of the OAuthAuthorizer class: 
  jar:<snip>com.bea.core.bea.opensaml2_1.0.0.0_6-1-0-0.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/ipp-java-aggcat-v1-devkit-1.0.2.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class
  zip:<snip>war/WEB-INF/lib/xmltooling-1.3.1.jar!/org/opensaml/xml/XMLConfigurator.class

    I noticed that another version of XMLConfigurator was possibly getting picked up. I decompiled that class and found this at line 60 (where the error was in the original stack trace) private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(XMLConfigurator.class); and that class was importing from org.apache.log4j.Logger!

    So it was this class that was being loaded and used. My fix was to rename the jar file that contained this file as I can't find where I explicitly or indirectly load it. Which may pose a problem when I actually deploy.

    Thanks for all help and the much needed lesson on class loading.