Root cause of ServletException. org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:

[buggydog]

In one our projects, we use the following packages: jersey-server (2.28) & poi-ooxml(5.2.5). Both these packages have commons-io as sub-dependencies.

While poi-ooxml uses 2.15 version of commons-io, jersey uses 2.11 version, irrespective if we upgrade the jersey to its latest release (https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jersey/blob/3.1.8/tools/jersey-release-notes-maven-plugin/pom.xml#L77).

When we run the project, we get the following error:

<[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread:

'1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <> <[severity-value: 8] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <BEA-101017> <[ServletContext@264727129 [app:abc

module:abc.war path:null spec-version: 3.1]] Root cause of ServletException. org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:

org.apache.commons.io.output.UnsynchronizedByteArrayOutputStream.builder()Lorg/apache/commons/io/output/UnsynchronizedByteArrayOutputStreamSBuilder

We have explicitly included commons-io 2.15.1 dependency in Pom.xml so that the project uses this version and ignores the others.

My first impression is that there's a dependency clash for commons-io. Since I am pretty new with Java & inexperienced with it, I would like to know if there's a way to solve this dependency clash.

pom.xml

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
<version>2.28</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<version>2.28</version> 
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
<version>1.9.14.jdk17-redhat-00001</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupid> org.apache.commons </groupid>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.jvnet.staxex</groupId>
<artifactId>stax-ex</artifactId>
<version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
<version>4.1.2</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
<artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
<version>5.0.3</version> <!--3.1.0->
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
<version>1.9.14.jdk17-redhat-00001</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>3.2.6</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
<version>5.2.5</version> 
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>

<!dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json</artifactId>
<version>2.0-m05-1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.9.14.jdk17-redhat-00001</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.9.14.jdk17-redhat-00001</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>clojure-interop</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.net</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
<version>2.1.3</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId> <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<version>9.6</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.daisy.pipeline</groupId> <artifactId>common-stax</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.daisy.pipeline</groupId>
<artifactId>common-stax</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.daisy.pipeline</groupId>
<artifactId>common-utils</artifactId>
<<version>6.0.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<version>1.17.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.virtuald</groupId>
<artifactId>curvesapi</artifactId>
<version>1.08</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.daisy.pipeline</groupId> <artifactId>framework-core</artifactId>
<version>8.0.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>33.2.1-jre</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>2.15.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

[senivam]

Both listed dependencies:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
<version>2.28</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<version>2.28</version> 
</dependency>

do not use commons-io in any version. Or at least I do not see any references to the commons-io in the dependency tree of those modules.

the dependency

<!dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json</artifactId>
<version>2.0-m05-1</version>
</dependency>

is wrongly included (note the ! sign in the <!dependency> tag) which makes the whole pom invalid, so I presume in the real project it's included correctly. It is old and does not exist in most recent versions of Jersey.

You can check dependencies of a maven project using

mvn dependency:tree

however, if you want to exclude some 4th party dependencies from dependencies of your project, it's possible to apply:

<dependency>
   ....
   <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
           <groupId>....</groupId>
           <artifactId>...</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

modify accordingly to your needs.