Spring REST service WAS7 Exception on startup - spring

Question

I am trying to deploy a REST Service, developed with Spring 3.0.5.RELEASE, as war-file on WAS 7.0.0.17. On Startup i get the following Exception and the Service wont return a result (obviously):
[8/9/11 13:26:44:592 CEST] 00000013 extension E com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor createServletWrapper Error occured while preparing the servlet for initialization.
javax.servlet.ServletException: SRVE0207E: Uncaught initialization exception created by servlet
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:434)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.init(ServletWrapperImpl.java:169)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:1809)
at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor.createServletWrapper(WebExtensionProcessor.java:98)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletWrapper(WebApp.java:1037)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletWrapper(WebApp.java:958)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initializeTargetMappings(WebApp.java:637)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinally(WebApp.java:435)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:304)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:100)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:166)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:731)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:616)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:376)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:668)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1123)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1319)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:610)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:944)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:726)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2048)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:441)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:123)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:384)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$300(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:112)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$CUInitializer.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:951)
at com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.component.WsComponentImpl$_AsynchInitializer.run(WsComponentImpl.java:349)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1604)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'standorteDS' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/rest-context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/springframework/expression/spel/support/StandardEvaluationContext.setBeanResolver(Lorg/springframework/expression/BeanResolver;)V
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:287)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:189)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:557)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:425)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:1707)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:380)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:299)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/springframework/expression/spel/support/StandardEvaluationContext.setBeanResolver(Lorg/springframework/expression/BeanResolver;)V
at org.springframework.context.expression.StandardBeanExpressionResolver.evaluate(StandardBeanExpressionResolver.java:129)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.evaluateBeanDefinitionString(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1245)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.evaluate(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:224)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:311)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1305)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1067)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:511)
... 33 more
I developed the application on a locally installed Tomcat Server. On that platform it was running without faults.
My rest-context.xml looks like the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
<bean id="standorteDS" class="mobile.standorte.ds.StandorteDS">
<property name="ds" ref="datasource" />
</bean>
<bean id="datasource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/my_datasource" />
<property name="lookupOnStartup" value="false" />
<property name="cache" value="true" />
<property name="proxyInterface" value="javax.sql.DataSource" />
</bean>
And my rest-servlet.xml looks like the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<!-- To enable #RequestMapping process on type level and method level -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter" />
<bean id="jaxbMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller">
<property name="classesToBeBound">
<list>
<value>mobile.standorte.bean.Standort</value>
<value>mobile.standorte.bean.StandorteList</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="standorte" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.xml.MarshallingView">
<constructor-arg ref="jaxbMarshaller" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
<property name="mediaTypes">
<map>
<entry key="xml" value="application/xml"/>
<entry key="html" value="text/html"/>
</map>
</property>
<property name="viewResolvers">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="standorteController" class="mobile.standorte.controller.StandorteController">
<property name="standorteDS" ref="standorteDS" />
<property name="jaxb2Mashaller" ref="jaxbMarshaller" />
</bean>
and finally the web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_1189606987655" version="2.5">
<display-name>Standorte Service Mobile</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<!-- The context params that read by ContextLoaderListener -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/rest-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- This listener will load other application context file in addition to springweb-servlet.xml -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>rest</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>rest</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/StandorteService/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The datasource is configured in the Application Server and the class with the property ds is also deployed.
I cant find any answers why the Service wont start. Thanks for any hints how to solve the problem.

Answer 1

Judging by this line I would say there where is a version mismatch or jar missing check and make sure spring-expression.jar is there.
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'standorteDS' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/rest-context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/springframework/expression/spel/support/StandardEvaluationContext.setBeanResolver(Lorg/springframework/expression/BeanResolver;)