Hi, I replaced JSF 2.2.1 with 2.2.20 and the problem is gone! It seems that the old 2.2.1 JAR had some kind of old format that crushed with the way the latest Eclipse works. And since 2.2.1 to 2.2.20 is not a huge upgrade, my old JSF pages still work. Nice! Thanks!
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:35 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Brian, > > On 10/12/23 16:55, Brian Braun wrote: > > Hello, > > > > First of all, I apologize if maybe my issue is not exclusively related to > > Tomcat, but I think it is. > > > > I started my website many years ago, using Struts 1.2.4 and since then I > > have been using it. Some years after that I had the intention to migrate > to > > JSF (version 2.2.X) and combine both frameworks for a while until I > > migrated everything to JSF and Struts was gone. I started learning it, > > created a few pages on my site but then I realized that it was not the > > ideal framework for me, so I stopped creating more pages with JSF and > > continued developing my site with Struts, letting those few JSF pages > that > > work coexist with the rest of the site running using Struts. Since then, > I > > haven't touched JSF. I haven't created even one page with it, never > > upgraded its version but the JSF JAR and pages are still there. Years > > passed and nothing made me think about JSF. > > > > Now I'm using: > > - Mac with the M2 chip > > - Eclipse (ARM version) > > - Tomcat, when developing with Eclipse > > - Tomcat 9.0.58 at my production server (which runs Ubuntu 22.04, x86/64) > > - Azul's Java 11.0.19+7-LTS aarch64, when developing with Eclipse > > - Java 11.0.20.1+1-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04, at the production server > > > > Well, a few days ago I upgraded Eclipse to Version: 2023-09 (4.29.0) and > at > > the same time upgraded to Azul's Java 11.0.19+7-LTS aarch64 and to Tomcat > > 9.0.71 when developing. And since then, I get these "SEVERE" JSF error > > messages (many of them) when I start Tomcat: > > > > SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool NN at position XX > > > > Why is that? Could someone please give me a clue? I just upgraded Eclipse > > and Tomcat, didn't do anything else relevant and now I get these > messages. > > And when I create the WAR file and deploy it on my production server, I > get > > the same error messages as well over there. It seems like the class files > > that gets generated are now different, since I didn't upgrade anything on > > my production server, so it is the WAR file that gets generated with > > something problematic now. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Here is the complete stuff that Tomcat shows, as a reference: > > > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.676 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version > name: > > Apache Tomcat/9.0.71 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built: Jan 9 > > 2023 22:33:01 UTC > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version > > number: 9.0.71.0 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Name: Mac OS X > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Version: 14.0 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Architecture: > aarch64 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Java Home: > > /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-11.jdk/Contents/Home > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Version: > > 11.0.19+7-LTS > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Vendor: Azul > > Systems, Inc. > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_BASE: > > /Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.678 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_HOME: > > /Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.719 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: > > > -Dcatalina.base=/Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.719 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: > > > -Dcatalina.home=/Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.719 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: > > > -Dwtp.deploy=/Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71/webapps > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.719 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: > > > -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/Users/brianbraun/BB/ACME/Programacion-Mac-Silicon/EclipseTomcat9.0.71/conf/logging.properties > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: > -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: -Dstdout.encoding=UTF-8 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.720 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line > > argument: -Dstderr.encoding=UTF-8 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.848 INFO [main] > > org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler > > ["http-nio-80"] > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:18.889 INFO [main] > > org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler > > ["https-jsse-nio-443"] > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:19.099 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Server initialization in [548] > > milliseconds > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:19.122 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service > > [Catalina] > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:19.123 INFO [main] > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet > > engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.71] > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:19.685 INFO [main] > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was > scanned > > for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for > a > > complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. > > Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP > > compilation time. > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.608 INFO [main] > > com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized Initializing > > Mojarra 2.2.1 ( 20130709-1453 > > https://svn.java.net/svn/mojarra~svn/tags/2.2.1@12065) for context > > '/VistaControlador' > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.674 INFO [main] > > com.sun.faces.spi.InjectionProviderFactory.createInstance JSF1048: > > PostConstruct/PreDestroy annotations present. ManagedBeans methods marked > > with these annotations will have said annotations processed. > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.680 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 18 at position 35 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.680 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 36 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.680 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 37 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.680 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 38 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.681 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 36 at position 39 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.681 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 18 at position 86 > > ......... more of these severe errors......... > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.681 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 18 at position 89 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.681 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 90 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.681 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 37 at position 92 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 93 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 90 at position 94 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 18 at position 96 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 97 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 93 at position 99 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.682 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 18 at position 125 > > 12-Oct-2023 14:47:21.683 SEVERE [main] > > > com.sun.faces.config.JavaClassScanningAnnotationScanner$ConstantPoolInfo.containsAnnotation > > Unknow type constant pool 0 at position 126 > > This kind of thing usually happens when the bytecode scanner is older > than the files it is scanning. Things get added to the class file format > over time and if your class-scanner is old, it may complain there are > things there it does not understand. > > How old is your version of JSF? You may need to upgrade it in order to > avoid those warnings. You may also be able to disable class-file > scanning if you don't use the annotations for anything. I can't tell you > if you can do that, because I don't know anything about (a) your > application and (b) JSF. You could try disabling it and see if your > application still works. > > Hope that helps, > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
