Description Jochen Kemnade 2020-09-03 09:55:41 EDT

I'm trying to test an old application that uses Spring 2.5 and includes AspectJ 1.6.5.
When launching RCPTT (from Ant), the application cannot initialize:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aspectj/weaver/reflect/ReflectionWorld$ReflectionWorldException
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:420)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
...
	at org.springframework.osgi.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext$NoDependenciesWaitRefreshExecutor.refresh(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:89)
	at org.springframework.osgi.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:175)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet.init(ContextLoaderServlet.java:81)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:244)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aspectj/weaver/reflect/ReflectionWorld$ReflectionWorldException
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
	at org.springframework.aop.config.ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.class$(ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.java:208)
	at org.springframework.aop.config.ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.createPointcutDefinition(ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.java:539)
	at org.springframework.aop.config.ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.parsePointcut(ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.java:476)
	at org.springframework.aop.config.ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.parse(ConfigBeanDefinitionParser.java:142)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:69)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1297)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1287)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:135)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:92)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:507)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:398)
	... 40 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.ReflectionWorld$ReflectionWorldException cannot be found by org.springframework.aop_2.5.6.SEC01
	at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:516)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:171)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
	... 53 more

To me, it looks as if RCPTT is registering its own AspectJ feature and that causes a conflict.