Error Starting Services After WAR File Deployment On Weblogic 10.3.5. Error is: weblogic.application.ModuleException: Failed to load webapp (Doc ID 1582778.1)

Last updated on JULY 01, 2022

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Symptoms

Error starting services after WAR File Deployment on Weblogic 10.3.5
When we deploy the OLD demantra war file (version 7.3.0.1) everything goes fine. We have upgraded our demantra application from 7.3.0.1 to 12.2.1.

weblogic.application.ModuleException: Failed to load webapp: 'demantra'
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.prepare(WebAppModule.java:393)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.prepare(ScopedModuleDriver.java:176)

STEPS
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1) Deploy WAR file. - Success
2) Start the Managed Server (war file's target server is managed server) - Errors with following:

weblogic.application.ModuleException: Failed to load webapp: 'demantra'
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.prepare(WebAppModule.java:393)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.prepare(ScopedModuleDriver.java:176)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.prepare(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:199)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow$1.next(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:517)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Error: Unresolved Webapp Library references for "ServletContext@828519305[app:demantra module:demantra path:/demantra spec-version:2.5]", defined in weblogic.xml [Extension-Name: jstl, Specification-Version: 1.2, Implementation-Version: 1.2, exact-match: false]
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.processWebAppLibraries(WebAppServletContext.java:2754)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.(WebAppServletContext.java:415)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.(WebAppServletContext.java:493)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.loadWebApp(HttpServer.java:418)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.registerWebApp(WebAppModule.java:972)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

Cause

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