NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultValidator - maven

Question

I am trying to deploy my application war into JBoss EAP 7 server but I am getting below error when deploying. we have esapi jar in our classpath (Jboss-deployment-structure.xml)
by: javax.servlet.ServletException: UT010013: Could not instantiate TestClass
at io.undertow.servlet.core.ManagedServlet$DefaultInstanceStrategy.start(ManagedServlet.java:236)
at io.undertow.servlet.core.ManagedServlet.createServlet(ManagedServlet.java:133)
at io.undertow.servlet.core.DeploymentManagerImpl.start(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:527)
at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService.startContext(UndertowDeploymentService.java:101)
at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService$1.run(UndertowDeploymentService.java:82)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: WFLYEE0042: Failed to construct component instance
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.constructComponentInstance(BasicComponent.java:163)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.constructComponentInstance(BasicComponent.java:134)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.createInstance(BasicComponent.java:88)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ComponentRegistry$ComponentManagedReferenceFactory.getReference(ComponentRegistry.java:149)
at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentInfoService$6.createInstance(UndertowDeploymentInfoService.java:1372)
at io.undertow.servlet.core.ManagedServlet$DefaultInstanceStrategy.start(ManagedServlet.java:234)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ConstructorComponentFactory.create(ConstructorComponentFactory.java:27)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ComponentInstantiatorInterceptor.processInvocation(ComponentInstantiatorInterceptor.java:67)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:340)
at org.jboss.invocation.ChainedInterceptor.processInvocation(ChainedInterceptor.java:61)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.AroundConstructInterceptorFactory$1.processInvocation(AroundConstructInterceptorFactory.java:26)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:340)
at org.jboss.as.ee.concurrent.ConcurrentContextInterceptor.processInvocation(ConcurrentContextInterceptor.java:45)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:340)
at org.jboss.invocation.ContextClassLoaderInterceptor.processInvocation(ContextClassLoaderInterceptor.java:64)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:340)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.run(InterceptorContext.java:356)
at org.jboss.invocation.PrivilegedWithCombinerInterceptor.processInvocation(PrivilegedWithCombinerInterceptor.java:80)
at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:340)
at org.jboss.invocation.ChainedInterceptor.processInvocation(ChainedInterceptor.java:61)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.constructComponentInstance(BasicComponent.java:161)
... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ConstructorComponentFactory.create(ConstructorComponentFactory.java:24)
... 29 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultValidator
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
at org.owasp.esapi.util.ObjFactory.make(ObjFactory.java:74)
at org.owasp.esapi.ESAPI.validator(ESAPI.java:191)
at com.metavante.web.validation.BaseValidator.xssClean(BaseValidator.java:928)
at com.metavante.web.validation.BaseValidator.sanitizeLogEntry(BaseValidator.java:1025)
at com.metavante.web.validation.BaseValidator.sanitizeLogEntry(BaseValidator.java:1010)
at com.metavante.efd.util.logging.logStore.types.Log4jLogStore.store(Log4jLogStore.java:38)
at com.metavante.efd.util.logging.logStore.LogStore.error(LogStore.java:600)
at com.util.logging.Logger.error(Logger.java:163)
at com.ssc.RemoteProxyFac.createProxy(RemoteProxyFac.java:57)
at com.usertype.TestApp.<clinit>(TestApp.java:49)
at com.servlet.TestClass.<init>(TestClass.java:30)
... 34 more
I am trying to deploy the war using Jboss admin console. Please help me in this regard.
One thing is that, we have different shared projects combined with our application. building those shared projects with maven as jars and adding them into main application war file WEB-INF/lib folder. Now I am deploying that war file which contains all other application jars inside its lib directory.
here is the pom.xml file where we mention the esapi jar.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.app</groupId>
<artifactId>myapp-parent</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.app</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
-<dependencies>
-<dependency>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>commons-net</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.owasp.esapi</groupId>
<artifactId>esapi</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ldap-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>nl.captcha</groupId>
<artifactId>SimpleCaptcha</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>com.ibm</groupId>
<artifactId>recordio</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>jai_codec</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>jai_core</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-servlet-api_3.1_spec</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
</dependency>
-<dependency>
<groupId>com.ibm</groupId>
<artifactId>recjava</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Thanks.