Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration when starting spring boot on Wildfly 11,12,13. [SPR-16990]

Giuseppe M Pereira opened SPR-16990 and commented

Bug report

//  "WFLYCTL0080: Failed services" => {"jboss.undertow.deployment.default-server.default-host.\"/dynamo-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT\"" => "java.lang.RuntimeException: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unexpected AOP exception; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, and regular proxy instantiation via default constructor fails as well; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unexpected AOP exception; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, and regular proxy instantiation via default constructor fails as well; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unexpected AOP exception; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, and regular proxy instantiation via default constructor fails as well; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unexpected AOP exception; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, and regular proxy instantiation via default constructor fails as well; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, and regular proxy instantiation via default constructor fails as well; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15
    Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.HttpMessageConverters$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$3ba87c15.<init>()"},

Getting following exception when loading spring boot war on wildfly 13. However, it works if I start my project with maven from the console with mvn spring-boot:run as jar build.

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Affects: 5.0.7

Referenced from: commits https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/58e886fddf8a1077efedcb99c8038b6e7aaf55b8

[spring-projects-issues]

Brian Clozel commented

Juergen Hoeller and I have been looking at this - it seems WildFly (actually, JBoss Modules) is not exposing sun.reflect nor jdk.internal packages with JDK9+.

Launching a Spring Boot application with Spring MVC support fails because of the following:

Unable to instantiate proxy using Objenesis, falling back to regular proxy construction: org.springframework.objenesis.ObjenesisException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory 

I’ve opened MODULES-373 to find out more about this - the JBoss Modules team answered that developers need to declare the jdk.unsupported module as a Dependency (see reference documentation).

I managed to run a Spring Boot application by updating my project build:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
	<configuration>
		<archive>
			<manifestEntries>
				<Dependencies>jdk.unsupported</Dependencies>
			</manifestEntries>
		</archive>
	</configuration>
</plugin>

In addition to that, the Spring Boot team is working on relaxing the reflection arrangement to avoid this advanced use case triggered by the Spring Boot infrastructure - but this does not guarantee that this case cannot be triggered by the application itself, so declaring that dependency is still advised.

I’m closing this issue, as this a configuration issue that WildFly users need to take into account.

[spring-projects-issues]

Stefano Paganucci commented

Thank you so much Juergen Hoeller for the explanation!