Some changes in between apache-tomee-1.6.0-20131008.041119-199-plus.tar.gz and apache-tomee-1.6.0-20131009.041119-200-plus.tar.gz are causing a failure at TomEE start up because of an javax.ws.rs.core.Application in a jar:
SEVERE: Unable to deploy collapsed ear in war StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/javaee-1-SNAPSHOT] org.apache.openejb.OpenEJBException: Unable to instantiate Application class: org.apache.wink.client.ClientConfig$1$1: org.apache.wink.client.ClientConfig$1$1 at org.apache.openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer$ProcessAnnotatedBeans.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:2018) at org.apache.openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer$ProcessAnnotatedBeans.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:1813) at org.apache.openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:349) at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory$Chain.deploy(ConfigurationFactory.java:396) at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.configureApplication(ConfigurationFactory.java:938) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.TomcatWebAppBuilder.startInternal(TomcatWebAppBuilder.java:1124) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.TomcatWebAppBuilder.configureStart(TomcatWebAppBuilder.java:1004) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.GlobalListenerSupport.lifecycleEvent(GlobalListenerSupport.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5322) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1653) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.wink.client.ClientConfig$1$1 at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:359) at org.apache.openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer$ProcessAnnotatedBeans.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:2004) ... 22 more To replicate this: $ git clone https://github.com/jieryn/javaee-example ; cd javaee-example $ mvn clean package tomee:run