I have a problem with iPojo not finding the JspPropertyGroupDescriptor class. I have discussed this in the ops4j mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/ops4j/c/qMSZT4RNRqc
But, I'm not sure if this is a Pax-Web problem or an iPojo problem. I am using Karaf 4.4.4 with Pax-Web 8.0.22. I get the following error in the log: 2023-11-30T17:55:19,274 | ERROR | [iPOJO] pool-1-thread-1 | web-console | 108 - se.digia.seco.web.web-console - 3.1.0.SNAPSHOT | [ERROR] : Cannot create the proxy object java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/descriptor/JspPropertyGroupDescriptor at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) ~[?:?] at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:3402) ~[?:?] at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:3427) ~[?:?] at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:2019) ~[?:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.ProxyGenerator.dumpProxy(ProxyGenerator.java:89) ~[!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.Dependency$SmartProxyFactory.getProxyClass(Dependency.java:1133) ~[!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.Dependency$SmartProxyFactory.getProxy(Dependency.java:1151) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.Dependency.start(Dependency.java:516) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.DependencyHandler.__M_start(DependencyHandler.java:496) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.dependency.DependencyHandler.start(DependencyHandler.java) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.HandlerManager.start(HandlerManager.java:136) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.InstanceManager.start(InstanceManager.java:421) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.ComponentFactory.createInstance(ComponentFactory.java:179) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.IPojoFactory.createComponentInstance(IPojoFactory.java:319) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.IPojoFactory.createComponentInstance(IPojoFactory.java:240) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.extender.internal.linker.ManagedType$InstanceSupport$1.call(ManagedType.java:312) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.extender.internal.linker.ManagedType$InstanceSupport$1.call(ManagedType.java:306) [!/:?] at org.apache.felix.ipojo.extender.internal.queue.JobInfoCallable.call(JobInfoCallable.java:114) [!/:?] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) [?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) [?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) [?:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833) [?:?] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.descriptor.JspPropertyGroupDescriptor not found by org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-api [94] at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.findClassOrResourceByDelegation(BundleWiringImpl.java:1591) ~[?:?] at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.access$300(BundleWiringImpl.java:79) ~[?:?] at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoader.loadClass(BundleWiringImpl.java:1976) ~[?:?] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520) ~[?:?] ... 22 more In Pax-Web 7.3.23 (used in Karaf 4.3.3) the following bundle was included: javax.servlet-api/3.1.0 In Pax-Web 8.0.22 (used in Karaf 4.4.4) it has been replaced by the following pair: jakarta.servlet-api/4.0.4 pax-web-compatibility-servlet31/8.0.22 I am using Servlet 3.1 which was provided cleanly in Pax-Web 7.3.23. But in 8.0.22 it is instead provided by the Servlet 4.0 bundle in combination with a fragment that (if I understand correctly) re-exports that code as version 3.1. Correct me if I am wrong. This setup doesn't seem to work with iPojo. It's unclear to me why this is. Looking at the bundle org.ops4j.pax.web/pax-web-api/8.0.22, it seems like it only imports the following javax.servlet packages: javax.servlet; version="[3.1, 5)", javax.servlet.annotation; version="[3.1, 5)", javax.servlet.http; version="[3.1, 5)" ...but not javax.servlet.descriptor If I add the following: javax.servlet.descriptor;version="[3.1,5)" To the Import-Package section of the MANIFEST.MF of the pax-web-api jar, then it works. It makes me wonder if this import is missing in pax-web-api. On the other hand I wonder why iPojo is looking for this class in pax-web-api and not in the bundle that actually exports it. /Bengt