Why Wildfly 8.1.0 final return java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: when deploying ejb module with a remote application library but glassfish doesn’t?

Question

I tried to create a simple EJB remote client sample but I keep getting java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: any time I tried to deploy the EJB.

The Remote Java Library File Structure is:

> TestRemoteInterface     
    --Source Package      
       -- bean
          --TestBeanRemote.java   
    -- Libraries      
       -- Java EE 6 API Library       
       --JDK 1.8

The EJB Module File Structure is:

> TestEJBModule   
    --Source Package      
       -- bean
          --TestBean.java     
    -- Libraries  
       -- TestRemoteInterface – dist/TestRemoteInterface    
       -- Java EE 6 API Library       
       -- JDK 1.8

TestBeanRemote.java

package bean;
import javax.ejb.Remote;

@Remote
public interface TestBeanRemote {

    String getName(String name);

}

TestBean .java

package bean;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;

@Stateless public class TestBean implements TestBeanRemote {

@Override
public String getName(String name) {
    return "Here is my " + name;
}    }

Question: When I try to deploy the TestEJBModule on get the follow log:

WARN [org.jboss.modules] (MSC service thread 1-6) Failed to define class bean.TestBean in Module "deployment.TestEJBModule.jar:main" from Service Module Loader: java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link bean/TestBean (Module "deployment.TestEJBModule.jar:main" from Service Module Loader)

....

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: bean/TestBeanRemote
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.8.0_05]

....

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: bean.TestBeanRemote from [Module "deployment.TestEJBModule.jar:main" from Service Module Loader] at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:213) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.3.Final]

...

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link bean/TestBean (Module "deployment.TestEJBModule.jar:main" from Service Module Loader) at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:487) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.3.Final] .....

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: bean/TestBeanRemote

.....

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: bean.TestBeanRemote from [Module "deployment.TestEJBModule.jar:main" from Service Module Loader] at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:213) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.3.Final]

When I tried to deploy this same sample with Glassfish 4. It works fine.

NB: I am using netbeans 8.0.1

There appear to be a similar thread but it didn't help much. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I solved this problem by deploying the TestRemoteInterface jar to the sever first. Then I added it to the project manifest.mf as a dependency.

example:

Dependencies: deployment.TestRemoteInterface.jar

Another option if you are using maven is the use maven dependencies manifest

<configuration>
   <archive>
      <manifestEntries>
         <Dependencies>TestRemoteInterface.jar</Dependencies>
      </manifestEntries>
   </archive>
</configuration>