I have an application that use j_security for a form-based authentication. When
the application is deployed for the first time (or the tomcat is restarted)
user gets this exception when trying access a protected content directly
(without login).
GRAVE: Servlet.service() for servlet [default] in context with path
[/mycontext] threw exception [Could not initialize class
javax.servlet.http.Cookie] with root cause
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
javax.servlet.http.Cookie
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationSessionCookieConfig.createSessionCookie(ApplicationSessionCookieConfig.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.doGetSession(Request.java:2875)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getSession(Request.java:2307)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade$GetSessionPrivilegedAction.run(RequestFacade.java:216)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade$GetSessionPrivilegedAction.run(RequestFacade.java:205)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getSession(RequestFacade.java:894)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getSession(RequestFacade.java:909)
at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper.getSession(HttpServletRequestWrapper.java:238)
at
com.mycompany.myfilter.SaasComponentImpl.getTenantId(SaasComponentImpl.java:284)
The excepted behaviour is to redirect the user to the login form and when the
user logs in redirect him to the requested protected resource.
But the weird thing is this works correctly if the first request send to the
rebooted server ask for the login form!!! It seems that after this tomcat find
and load correctly the cookie class and then all the request are handled as
expected.
Why tomcat cannot find the Cookie class that is for sure in the
lib/servlet-api.jar? IMHO, no mmetter when this class is asked to be load for
the first time ... it should be there for any valve, servlet, filter, etc ...
I'm right?
PS: This was working fine before the app was migrated from tomcat 6.
