Error when deploying a Spring Boot Websocket/STOMP application on WebLogic 12.2.1 - spring-boot

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I am creating a Spring Boot REST API that leverages WebSockets/STOMP to send messages to an Angular front end using SockJS. I have gone through great lengths to get the application to deploy in WebLogic 12.2.1C with out using a web.xml. I seem to be close but am having an issue with the Spring Boot Web Socket implementation I am using. I would like to use Spring Boot's implementation and not WebLogics. When I attempt to deploy the war file in WebLogic, I get the following error:
<Could not load user defined filter in web.xml: weblogic.websocket.tyrus.TyrusServletFilter.
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsServerContainer cannot be cast to org.glassfish.tyrus.server.TyrusServerContainer
at weblogic.websocket.tyrus.TyrusServletFilter.init(TyrusServletFilter.java:76)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterManager$FilterInitAction.run(FilterManager.java:400)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:326)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAsForUserCode(SecurityManager.java:196)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSecurityProvider.runAsForUserCode(WlsSecurityProvider.java:203)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:71)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterManager.initFilter(FilterManager.java:130)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterManager.loadFilter(FilterManager.java:92)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterManager.preloadFilters(FilterManager.java:72)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1917)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3063)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1830)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:875)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:360)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:356)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
Below is my pom.xml
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.2.6.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<spring.version>4.2.3.RELEASE</spring.version>
<log4j.version>2.4.1</log4j.version>
<apacheds.server.jndi.version>1.5.5</apacheds.server.jndi.version>
<dao.hibernate.version>1.2.0</dao.hibernate.version>
<commons.lang3.version>3.3.2</commons.lang3.version>
<oracle.version>11.2.0</oracle.version>
<hibernate.core.version>4.3.8.Final</hibernate.core.version>
<hibernate.jpa.version>1.0.0.Final</hibernate.jpa.version>
<httpclient.version>4.5.1</httpclient.version>
<guava.version>19.0</guava.version>
<spring.context.support.version>4.1.7.RELEASE</spring.context.support.version>
<swagger.version>2.4.0</swagger.version>
<surefire.junit47.version>2.18.1</surefire.junit47.version>
<rest-assured.version>2.8.0</rest-assured.version>
<hibernate.validator.version>5.1.3.Final</hibernate.validator.version>
<jacoco.version>0.7.5.201505241946</jacoco.version>
<tomcat.version>8.0.30</tomcat.version>
<powermock.version>1.6.4</powermock.version>
<spring.boot.legacy.version>1.0.1.RELEASE</spring.boot.legacy.version>
<tomcat-jndi-scope>provided</tomcat-jndi-scope>
<commons.io.version>2.4</commons.io.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-websocket</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-messaging</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>${tomcat-jndi-scope}</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>${tomcat.version}</version>
<scope>${tomcat-jndi-scope}</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-legacy</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.legacy.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.dropwizard.metrics</groupId>
<artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.directory.server</groupId>
<artifactId>apacheds-server-jndi</artifactId>
<version>${apacheds.server.jndi.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
<artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
<version>${powermock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
<artifactId>powermock-api-mockito</artifactId>
<version>${powermock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.genericdao</groupId>
<artifactId>dao-hibernate</artifactId>
<version>${dao.hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>${commons.io.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>${commons.lang3.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- ORACLE database driver MUST BE INSTALLED MANUALLY TO MAVEN, SEE README -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>${oracle.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- hibernate-->
<!-- HIBERNATE -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.core.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
<version>${hibernate.jpa.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- /HIBERNATE-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>${httpclient.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- h2 test db -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>${guava.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${spring.context.support.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
<version>${rest-assured.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-mock-mvc</artifactId>
<version>${rest-assured.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.validator.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Below is my weblogic.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wls:weblogic-web-app
xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app
http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.4/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
<wls:weblogic-version>12.2.1</wls:weblogic-version>
<wls:context-root>app</wls:context-root>
<wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:prefer-application-packages>
<wls:package-name>org.joda.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>com.google.common.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>javax.websocket.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>javax.websocket.server.*</wls:package-name>
<wls:package-name>org.slf4j.*</wls:package-name>
</wls:prefer-application-packages>
</wls:container-descriptor>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>
Below is my entry point to the Spring Boot Web Application
#SpringBootApplication
#Import({
WebAppConfig.class,
CacheConfig.class,
SwaggerConfig.class,
HibernateOracleConfig.class
})
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(
SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(Application.class);
}
#Override
public void onStartup(ServletContext container) throws ServletException {
AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
// <some context configuration>
ServletRegistration.Dynamic spring = container.addServlet("Spring", new DispatcherServlet(context));
// <some servlet configuration>
// Here, set desired context class using 'contextClass' parameter.
spring.setInitParameter("contextClass", context.getClass().getName());
container.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(context));
}
}
Please let me know if any more information is needed. I have little experience with WebLogic so am not sure how to proceed, any help or suggestions would definitely be appreciated.
I have changed the maven dependencies to the following...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
It still works as a Spring Boot application using mvn spring-boot:run, I will let you know if I get any errors when I deploy on WebLogic.
The application was able to deploy successfully but now I have the following error.
2016-04-14 16:16:10,304 [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Error handling failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'delegatingApplicationListener' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/configuration/WebSecurityConfiguration.class]: BeanPostProcessor before instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.importRegistry' is defined
Have you guys seen this issue before?