Exception with liberty profile 18.0.0.1 - java-8

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[WARNING ] CWWKZ0014W: The application abcEAR could not be started as it could not be found at location abcEAR.ear.
[ERROR ] CWWKZ0106E: Could not start web application abcEAR.
[ERROR ] CWWKZ0002E: An exception occurred while starting the application abcEAR. The exception message was: com.ibm.ws.container.service.state.StateChangeException: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
[ERROR ] CWWKZ0106E: Could not start web application abcEAR.
[ERROR ] CWWKZ0004E: An exception occurred while starting the application abcEAR. The exception message was: com.ibm.ws.container.service.state.StateChangeException: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Any thoughts what could be the reason\fix for this exception?
below is the server.xml. Let me know any more details required.I am quite new so not sure i am providing the correct details.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<server description="new server">
<!-- Enable features -->
<featureManager>
<feature>cdi-1.2</feature>
<feature>jaxb-2.2</feature>
<feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
<feature>beanValidation-1.1</feature>
<feature>servlet-3.1</feature>
<feature>jaxws-2.2</feature>
<feature>ejbLite-3.2</feature>
<feature>concurrent-1.0</feature>
<feature>monitor-1.0</feature>
<feature>jaxrs-2.0</feature>
</featureManager>
<!-- To access this server from a remote client add a host attribute to the following element, e.g. host="*" -->
<httpEndpoint host="*" httpPort="${default.http.port}" httpsPort="${default.https.port}" id="defaultHttpEndpoint"/>
<managedExecutorService jndiName="abc/abc">
</managedExecutorService>
<library id="configs">
<folder dir="${server.config.dir}/config"/>
</library>
<logging maxFileSize="20" maxFiles="10" traceFileName="trace.log" traceFormat="BASIC" traceSpecification="*=info: JCDI=all: com.ibm.ws.webbeans*=all: org.apache.webbeans*=all"/>
<include location="serverConfig.xml"/>
<include location="server-webservices-jndi.xml"/>
<include location="server-wmq.xml"/>
<include location="server-datasources.xml"/>
<applicationMonitor updateTrigger="mbean"/>
<webContainer deferServletLoad="false"/>
<logging hideMessage="SRVE9967W"/>
<cdi12 enableImplicitBeanArchives="false"/>
<enterpriseApplication id="abcEAR" location="abcEAR.ear" name="abcEAR">
<classloader commonLibraryRef="OracleLib,configs"/>
</enterpriseApplication>
</server>
i see errors in below format for various jar\packages in the log
000000ba org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap I WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from 'package' because of underlying class loading error: Type package not found. If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
W CWNEN0047W: Resource annotations on the fields of the 'package' class will be ignored. The annotations could not be obtained because of the exception : java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: package
WARNING ] SRVE9967W: The manifest class path guava.jar can not be found in jar file ... or its parent.
------Start of DE processing------
Exception = java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Source = com.ibm.ws.container.service.state.internal.ApplicationStateManager
probeid = 31
Stack Dump = java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.ensureError(J9VMInternals.java:141)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.recordInitializationFailure(J9VMInternals.java:130)
at org.mockito.internal.exceptions.stacktrace.ConditionalStackTraceFilter.<init>(ConditionalStackTraceFilter.java:17)
at org.mockito.exceptions.base.MockitoException.filterStackTrace(MockitoException.java:30)
at org.mockito.exceptions.base.MockitoException.<init>(MockitoException.java:19)
at org.mockito.exceptions.misusing.MockitoConfigurationException.<init>(MockitoConfigurationException.java:18)
at org.mockito.internal.configuration.ClassPathLoader.loadImplementations(ClassPathLoader.java:145)
at org.mockito.internal.configuration.ClassPathLoader.findPluginImplementation(ClassPathLoader.java:110)
at org.mockito.internal.configuration.ClassPathLoader.findPlatformMockMaker(ClassPathLoader.java:106)
at org.mockito.internal.configuration.ClassPathLoader.<clinit>(ClassPathLoader.java:59)
at org.mockito.internal.util.MockUtil.<clinit>(MockUtil.java:21)