Deployment problems on Weblogic server - spring-mvc

Question

I have two applications, both developed in Spring MVC. One, i.e. VDM is getting deployed and starting just fine in both the local and the live weblogic 12c server. But the other one, i.e. VPORTAL is getting deployed but not starting in the live server. While starting the services, it is giving the following error:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/slf4j/spi/LocationAwareLogger.log(Lorg/slf4j/Marker;Ljava/lang/String;ILjava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Throwable;)V
Interestingly, it is working perfectly in the local server.
I have made some jars consistent in both the applications but it didn't help.
One thing that can be noted is that there was a file namely log4j.xml in the VDM's classes directory, but there wasn't any in the VPORTAL. I put it into the VPORTAL after making the changes but it didn't help either.
Please help!

Answer 1

This is definitely a jar version mismatch issue. You do not mention what version of slf4j-api jar you placed under your WEB-INF\lib folder. I suspect it is a different version than the one in WLS 12c. WLS 12.1.1 comes with org.slf4j.api_1.6.1.0.jar in its module directory. So what you need to do is add the below section in your weblogic.xml, instructing weblogic to load the classes from the slf4j-api _x.x.x.jar in your WEB-INF/lib, instead from the org.slf4j.api_1.6.1.0.jar from the WLS installation. By default, org.slf4j.api_1.6.1.0.jar is used since it is in the server classpath.
<container-descriptor>
<prefer-web-inf-classes>false</prefer-web-inf-classes>
<prefer-application-packages>
<package-name>org.slf4j.*</package-name>
<package-name>org.apache.commons.logging.*</package-name>
</prefer-application-packages>
</container-descriptor>

Answer 2

We also faced similar problem with our application.
Application - Spring MVC & we are migrating to Weblogic12c. We tried different way, like modifying pom.xml & all. But finally this change in weblogic.xml helped us.
<?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/web-app_2_5.xsd http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.2/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
<wls:context-root>/</wls:context-root>
<wls:session-descriptor>
<wls:cookie-secure>false</wls:cookie-secure>
<wls:url-rewriting-enabled>true</wls:url-rewriting-enabled>
</wls:session-descriptor>
<wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:prefer-application-packages>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.apache.xerces</wls:package-name>
</wls:prefer-application-packages>
</wls:container-descriptor>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>
Pom.xml File:-
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.ws.commons.schema</groupId>
<artifactId>XmlSchema</artifactId>
<version>1.4.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
<version>2.7.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.directory.studio</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.commons.collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.5.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.ws.commons.axiom</groupId>
<artifactId>axiom-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.ws.commons.axiom</groupId>
<artifactId>axiom-dom</artifactId>
<version>1.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.ws.commons.axiom</groupId>
<artifactId>axiom-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>axis</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.json</groupId>
<artifactId>json</artifactId>
<version>20090211</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2-adb</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2-kernel</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>axis-jaxrpc</artifactId>
<version>1.2-RC1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>backport-util-concurrent</groupId>
<artifactId>backport-util-concurrent</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cactus</groupId>
<artifactId>
cactus.core.framework.uberjar.javaEE.14
</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>org.mortbay.jetty</artifactId>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cactus</groupId>
<artifactId>cactus.integration.ant</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>cactus.integration.shared.api</artifactId>
<groupId>org.apache.cactus</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>org.mortbay.jetty</artifactId>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
<version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>onlinesupport-Mysp</groupId>
<artifactId>coherence</artifactId>
<version>3.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-chain</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-chain</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
<version>1.3.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ibm.icu</groupId>
<artifactId>icu4j</artifactId>
<version>4.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jaxen</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
<version>1.1-beta-6</version>
<type>zip</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.cedarsoft.serialization</groupId>
<artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jsptags</groupId>
<artifactId>pager-taglib</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Remove this for Weblogic -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.neethi</groupId>
<artifactId>neethi</artifactId>
<version>2.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>oro</groupId>
<artifactId>oro</artifactId>
<version>2.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xmlbeans</groupId>
<artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>servletapi</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.apple.corp</groupId>
<artifactId>BlackWord</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.apple.corp</groupId>
<artifactId>AESCryptoAlgorithm</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm-tiger</artifactId>
<version>1.5.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-bundle</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Quartz framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
<artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
<version>1.8.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
<version>2.1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.owasp.esapi</groupId>
<artifactId>esapi</artifactId>
<version>2.0_rc9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all-1.0-jsr</artifactId>
<version>05</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.apple.ist.gcrm.infra.log</groupId>
<artifactId>cslogger</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<groupId>apache-log4j</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.moxy</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.apple.ist.ets</groupId>
<artifactId>geneva-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.owasp</groupId>
<artifactId>antisamy</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>4.0.2.GA</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<packaging>war</packaging>
</project>

Answer 3

You have to split up the configuration which Lan mentioned, into two files:
The first one is META-INF/weblogic-application.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-application xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90">
<prefer-application-packages>
<package-name>org.slf4j.*</package-name>
<package-name>org.apache.commons.logging.*</package-name>
</prefer-application-packages>
</weblogic-application>
The second one is WEB-INF/weblogic.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-web-app xmlns="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/web-app_2_5.xsd
http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.1/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
<container-descriptor>
<prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>
</container-descriptor>
</weblogic-web-app>
That way you can force WebLogic (12c in my case) to load your webapp bundled version (must be placed in WEB-INF/lib) of SLF4J first. But it seems, that still both Bindings are available.
German Source: http://www.torsten-horn.de/techdocs/jee-oracleweblogic.htm#Kompatibilitätsprobleme