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Reputation: 379

Spring Boot deployment - NoClassDefFoundError

I'm trying to deploy Spring Boot application. I build a jar file through maven plugins. But I get an error saying:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication
        at com.spring-boot.example.AppConfig.main(AppConfig.java:18)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 1 more

I tried adding additional plugins to the pom.xml file, but none of it worked. Any help will be very appreciated.

This is my pom.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.spring-boot.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-example</artifactId>
    <version>0.1</version>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <start-class>com.spring-boot.example.AppConfig</start-class>

        <spring.version>4.0.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
        <jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
    </properties>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.9.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.1.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>


    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Upvotes: 4

Views: 36370

Answers (3)

Gr8Warrior
Gr8Warrior

Reputation: 719

try $ mvn dependency:purge-local-repository from your terminal. It may be because some of your dependency got corrupted. This command worked for me

Upvotes: -1

Daniel Hajduk
Daniel Hajduk

Reputation: 336

I would suggest using maven assembly plugin so that all dependencies will be present in jar file after it is built. Here is documentation for it: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/

Upvotes: 0

abarisone
abarisone

Reputation: 3783

First of all I would suggest you to upgrade your dependecies to the latest version of the Spring Boot framework, if applicable.

Besides, independently from the version you're using, the class you're missing is contained into this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

but remember that all Spring Boot dependencies rely on Spring framework transitive dependencies, so check in your IDE's dependency hierarchy panel if they are present.

Depending on the way you're deploying your application you must be sure that all dependencies are available at runtime.

This can be obtained using, for example, the repackage goal into the spring-boot-maven-plugin in your pom's build section:

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${spring-boot-version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>your-main-class</mainClass>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
       </plugins>
</build>

Upvotes: 3

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