Reputation: 35
I am using maven in eclipse and tomcat server.
I have to make small program which sends an email if required every one hour using java mail.
I have modified my web.xml in webapp.
I added mail in POM.xml like this.
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4.7</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
as I don't require activation because using the jdk 1.6.
I also modified the context.xml
Then copied the mail.jar into tomcat/lib folder.
But i am getting the weird error.
java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.mail.Session cannot be cast to javax.mail.Session
at fr.project.batch.jobs.SendEmail.execute(SendEmail.java:53)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:216)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:549)
2014-04-07 10:01:47,539 ERROR duler_Worker-1 Job (DEFAULT.SendMail threw an exception. [ErrorLogger]
org.quartz.SchedulerException: Job threw an unhandled exception. [See nested exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.mail.Session cannot be cast to javax.mail.Session]
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:227)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:549)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.mail.Session cannot be cast to javax.mail.Session
at fr.project.batch.jobs.SendEmail.execute(SendEmail.java:53)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:216)
... 1 more
I have read many times in tomcat 6.0 JavaMail ressources and gone through many answers of stackoverflow.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1228
Reputation: 830
This problem occurs in the server because the lib of Tomcat and you application both have their own copy of mail.jar (in WEB-INF/lib), so the classloaders can load two different Session.If you delete the mail.jarfrom your application, this problem will be solved.
Upvotes: 3