maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin throws a ClassNotFoundException

Question

I have configured my pom file to use maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin. In fact this is the jersey-webapp artifact that generates the project. The plugin section of the pom is as below:-

org.glassfish maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin ${glassfish.version} embedded-glassfish /Users/vdevigere/Projects/ShoppingSite/shoppingsite-ws/target/${project.build.finalName}.war test true 8080 com.sun.jersey jersey-servlet ${jersey.version} javax.servlet javax.servlet-api 3.0.1

When I do a mvn embedded-glassfish:run I get a stacktrace informing me that javax.ejb.Stateless could not be found. The stack trace is below

EVERE: Exception while invoking class com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication start method java.lang.Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/Stateless at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:138) at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:294) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:462) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:240) at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:382) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:355) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:370) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1064) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1200(CommandRunnerImpl.java:96) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1244) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1232) at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.embeddable.DeployerImpl.deploy(DeployerImpl.java:129) at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.embeddable.DeployerImpl.deploy(DeployerImpl.java:105) at org.glassfish.maven.PluginUtil.doDeploy(PluginUtil.java:106) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.glassfish.maven.AbstractDeployMojo.doDeploy(AbstractDeployMojo.java:239) at org.glassfish.maven.RunMojo.execute(RunMojo.java:68) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362) at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)

I have confirmed that javax.ejb.Stateless is part of glassfish-embedded-web which is included as a test scope dependency.

org.glassfish.extras glassfish-embedded-web ${glassfish.version} test

I am at my wits end on why this does not work. I am able to deploy the application to an actual glassfish appserver.

Answer 1

To fix this, you need to add the following additional dependency to the dependency list under the maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin's dependencies in the pom.xml:

    <dependency>
       <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.ejb</artifactId>
       <version>${glassfish.version}</version>
    </dependency>