OWC_Discussions Application Won't Start After January 2024 CPU Installation: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdom.Element" (Doc ID 3002001.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 06, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

After installing January 2024 Critical Patch Update (CPU) in a Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 instance, "owc_discussions" does not start (status is displayed as DOWN) even though the WC_Collaboration managed server starts.

Following errors are reported in the logs:

[<TIMESTAMP>] [WC_Collaboration] [NOTIFICATION] [] [com.jivesoftware.Jive-INFO] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [ecid: <ECID>] [APP: owc_discussions] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] Starting Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 -oracle using jiveHome dir of: /<DOMAIN_HOME>/config/fmwconfig/servers/WC_Collaboration1/owc_discussions
[<TIMESTAMP>] [WC_Collaboration] [ERROR] [] [org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [ecid: <ECID>] [APP: owc_discussions] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] Error initializing XFireServlet.[[
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.class$(DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.java:62)
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.createDefaultMappings(DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.java:397)
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.createDefaultMappings(DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.java:302)
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.<init>(DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.java:128)
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.<init>(DefaultTypeMappingRegistry.java:116)
at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.AegisBindingProvider.<init>(AegisBindingProvider.java:63)
at org.codehaus.xfire.annotations.AnnotationServiceFactory.<init>(AnnotationServiceFactory.java:75)
at com.jivesoftware.forum.webservices.server.xfire.XFireHelper.<init>(XFireHelper.java:25)
at com.jivesoftware.forum.webservices.server.xfire.XFireHelper.<clinit>(XFireHelper.java:16)
at com.jivesoftware.forum.webservices.server.xfire.JiveXFireServlet.loadXFireHelper(JiveXFireServlet.java:47)
at com.jivesoftware.forum.webservices.server.xfire.JiveXFireServlet.createXFire(JiveXFireServlet.java:35)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet.init(XFireServlet.java:45)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:244)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:356)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:307)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:344)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAsForUserCode(SecurityManager.java:197)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSecurityProvider.runAsForUserCode(WlsSecurityProvider.java:203)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:71)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.initServletInstance(StubSecurityHelper.java:99)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:87)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:74)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:57)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:31)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.initStubLifecycleHelper(ServletStubImpl.java:676)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:615)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:2072)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:2049)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1938)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3194)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1877)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:932)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:360)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:356)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.start(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:138)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:233)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:228)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:78)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:52)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:752)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:262)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:66)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:165)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:90)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:631)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:171)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:121)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.doCommit(StartOperation.java:151)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:348)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:906)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1467)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:458)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:181)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:217)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:14)
at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:69)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:681)
at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352)
at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337)
at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57)
at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:655)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:420)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:360)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdom.Element
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:1029)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:990)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.findClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:101)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.doFindClass(GenericClassLoader.java:611)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:543)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:496)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:71)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:53)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
... 68 more
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Changes

Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 updated with January 2024 Critical Patch Update.

Cause

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