NoSuchMethodError when deploying Spring Boot to Weblogic

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I've got a Spring Boot application running fine locally via the built in tomcat server but I'm having issues deploying it as a war file in Weblogic 12.2. I've followed the "85.1 Create a deployable war file" section of the Spring Boot reference guide to build the war file, created a new Weblogic managed server to host it and followed the deployment install steps on Weblogic but get the below exception when clicking start "servicing all requests" on the deployment. Any suggestions?

Dependencies section of build.gradle:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'lib', include: '*.jar')
    compile(
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.5.8.RELEASE',
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools',
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc',
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa',
        'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.9.2',
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security',
        'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0'
    )
    testCompile(
        'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test',
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
    )
    providedRuntime (
        'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    )
}

Exception received from Weblogic when clicking start "servicing all requests":

Caused By: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment.initPropertySources(Ljavax/servlet/ServletContext;Ljavax/servlet/ServletConfig;)V
        at org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer.createRootApplicationContext(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:108)
        at org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer.onStartup(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:87)
        at org.springframework.web.SpringServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(SpringServletContainerInitializer.java:162)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.initContainerInitializer(WebAppServletContext.java:1420)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.initContainerInitializers(WebAppServletContext.java:1359)
        Loads more weblogic errors here.

My application entry point appears to be okay:

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(Application.class);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Spring boot embedded with a tomcat servlet container. Why would you want to deploy spring-boot app on weblogic? — Ataur Rahman Munna
– Ataur Rahman Munna, Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 10:57
Is there any way to remove that? Unless I've misunderstood the docs say adding the above "providedRuntime" dependency excludes it? We just use Weblogic as our app server. — Matt Damon
– Matt Damon, Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 11:06

Ataur Rahman Munna · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-20 05:03:10Z

4

Add a weblogic deployment descriptor as said in spring-docs. Create a file named weblogic.xml and add this code to the xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wls:weblogic-web-app
    xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd
        http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app
        http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.4/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
    <wls:container-descriptor>
        <wls:prefer-application-packages>
            <wls:package-name>org.slf4j</wls:package-name>
            <wls:package-name>org.springframework.*</wls:package-name>
        </wls:prefer-application-packages>
    </wls:container-descriptor>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>

Now put the weblogic.xml file into WEB-INF folder so that full path will be WEB-INF/weblogic.xml.

Update: Add a empty dispatcher-servlet.xml to WEB-INF/ folder.

dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
</beans>

And your build.gradle add dependency

org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web

Also remove

providedRuntime (
    'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
)

edited Dec 20, 2017 at 5:03

answered Dec 19, 2017 at 11:22

Ataur Rahman Munna

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4 Comments

Matt Damon Over a year ago

Done and confirmed by checking the war file contents but still the same error. I'm not sure if it's weblogic trying to substitute it's own jars over the spring ones?

Ataur Rahman Munna Over a year ago

I didn't think so. Could you please remove your providedRuntime 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat' from build.gradle ?

Ataur Rahman Munna Over a year ago

Then problem could be somewhere else. :(

Matt Damon Over a year ago

Looks like the Weblogic install needed patching to the latest version. Not had this issue since.

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