Are you facing java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext not present exception?
Today while running my RESTful service on my Eclipse I noticed javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext error in my eclipse console. The same program was running perfectly fine since last year without any issue.
I started thinking about the changes happened on my local environment. There wasn’t any code checkin happened since last year so I thought it’s mainly because of my latest Java 11 upgrade.
As you see in my previous Everything about Java 11, there is no longer support for Java EE modules in it 🙁 .
Java 11 removed the support for java.xml.bind – which defines the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) API.
Her is a complete stack-trace:
Dec 14, 2018 1:23:19 PM com.sun.jersey.api.core.servlet.WebAppResourceConfig init INFO: Scanning for root resource and provider classes in the Web app resource paths: /WEB-INF/lib /WEB-INF/classes Dec 14, 2018 1:23:20 PM com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl _initiate INFO: Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.17.1 02/28/2013 12:47 PM' Dec 14, 2018 1:23:20 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext not present at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeNamedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:117) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:125) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:49) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.reifyTypeArguments(Reifier.java:68) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:138) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:49) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.computeSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:117) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:95) at java.base/java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:1138) at com.sun.jersey.core.reflection.ReflectionHelper.getClass(ReflectionHelper.java:533) at com.sun.jersey.core.reflection.ReflectionHelper.getClass(ReflectionHelper.java:529) at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.factory.ContextResolverFactory.getParameterizedType(ContextResolverFactory.java:202) at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.factory.ContextResolverFactory.init(ContextResolverFactory.java:89) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:183) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:801) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:183) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:695) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:350) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:492) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1328) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1157) at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:398) at java.base/sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeNamedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:114) ... 59 more
And that’s the reason I started getting above exception. Java 11 package for javax.xml.bind does not exist any more.
- Java 7 version: Included and Working
- Java 8 version: Included and Working
- Java 9 version: Deprecated
- Java 10 version: Deprecated
- Java 11 version: Removed
In order to fix this issue you need to manually add below JAXB Maven dependencies to your project.
<dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId> <version>2.3.0.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency>
Here is my complete pom.xml file if required:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>CrunchifyRESTfulServiceVersion</groupId> <artifactId>CrunchifyRESTfulServiceVersion</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>war</packaging> <build> <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.8.0</version> <configuration> <release>10</release> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.2.1</version> <configuration> <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId> <version>2.3.0.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId> <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>
Try cleaning your Eclipse project and try running your Tomcat server again. You shouldn’t see this issue anymore.
Happy coding and let me know if you still face this exception after adding above Maven dependencies.