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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor

November 14, 2013 //  by Krishna Srinivasan//  Leave a Comment

When you work on Hibernate, Jersey or any third party API, most of these APIs have the dependency with the asm.jar file. ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. This is a common framework used by many of the thrird part frameworks internally, that is the reason many projects have this JAR file in their distribution package. If you don’t have that package, it is always throws exception. One possible exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor. This may vary based on the framework you are using. The below error is thrown when I am using Jersey framework. If you use hibernate, you may get java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.Type. To resolve this error, either you have to download the JAR file or add the below maven dependency entry.

<dependency>
	<groupId>asm</groupId>
	<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
	<version>3.3.1</version>
</dependency>
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor
	at com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig.init(ScanningResourceConfig.java:79)
	at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.init
(PackagesResourceConfig.java:104)
	at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:78)
	at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:89)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig
(WebComponent.java:696)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig
(WebComponent.java:674)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.init(WebComponent.java:203)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.
init(ServletContainer.java:374)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.
init(ServletContainer.java:557)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4149)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4458)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:3190)
	at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.backgroundProcess(WebappLoader.java:404)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1309)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.
processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.
processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.
processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.
run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor
	at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
	at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)

Category: JavaTag: Exceptions, Jersey

About Krishna Srinivasan

He is Founder and Chief Editor of JavaBeat. He has more than 8+ years of experience on developing Web applications. He writes about Spring, DOJO, JSF, Hibernate and many other emerging technologies in this blog.

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