Deploy with JRebel from IntellijIDEA

Question

I am following a tutorial from the "Spring in Action" book (by Manning Pubblications). I have a problem when I try to deploy a webApp (with springMVC) with JRebel.

[2016-04-04 11:00:28,040] Artifact WebAppSpring: Artifact is being deployed, please wait...
Connected to server
2016-04-04 11:00:28 JRebel: ERROR Class 'org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig' could not be processed by org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.integration.catalina.ContextConfigCBP@java.net.URLClassLoader@1134affc: org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CannotCompileException: [source error] processAnnotationsUrl(java.net.URL,org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.WebXml,boolean) not found in org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CtNewMethod.make(JRebel:79)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CtNewMethod.make(JRebel:45)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CtMethod.make(JRebel:132)
    at org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.integration.catalina.ContextConfigCBP.implementReloadingOnTomcat8(ContextConfigCBP.java:122)
    at org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.integration.catalina.ContextConfigCBP.process(ContextConfigCBP.java:25)
    at org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.integration.support.JavassistClassBytecodeProcessor.process(JRebel:117)
    at com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.kh.a(JRebel:359)
    at com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.kh.a(JRebel:348)
    at com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.kh.a(JRebel:316)
    at com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.SDKIntegrationImpl.runBytecodeProcessors(JRebel:132)
    at com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.jP.transform(JRebel:57)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.MBeanFactory.createStandardContext(MBeanFactory.java:462)
    at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.MBeanFactory.createStandardContext(MBeanFactory.java:431)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:300)
    at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
    at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:801)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1471)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$300(RMIConnectionImpl.java:76)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1312)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1404)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:832)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:323)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:568)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:826)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$256(TCPTransport.java:683)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:682)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: compile error: processAnnotationsUrl(java.net.URL,org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.WebXml,boolean) not found in org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.TypeChecker.atMethodCallCore(JRebel:749)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.TypeChecker.atCallExpr(JRebel:695)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.JvstTypeChecker.atCallExpr(JRebel:157)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.CallExpr.accept(JRebel:46)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.doTypeCheck(JRebel:242)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:330)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:351)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atIfStmnt(JRebel:398)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:355)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:351)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atIfStmnt(JRebel:398)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:355)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(JRebel:351)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(JRebel:50)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atMethodBody(JRebel:292)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atMethodDecl(JRebel:274)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.ast.MethodDecl.accept(JRebel:44)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.Javac.compileMethod(JRebel:169)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.compiler.Javac.compile(JRebel:95)
    at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CtNewMethod.make(JRebel:74)
    ... 51 more

2016-04-04 11:00:32 JRebel: Directory 'C:\Users\NINO\IdeaProjects\SpringInAction\out\production\SpringInAction' will be monitored for changes.
2016-04-04 11:00:32 JRebel: Directory 'C:\Users\NINO\IdeaProjects\SpringInAction\web' will be monitored for changes.

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After this error, the deploy go fine.

But if I modify a static file (jsp for example) jrebel works fine...if I modify a java class, jrebel not works.

I don't know if is a problem relative to the error shown in console at deploy time.

In the past I userd Jrebel with eclipse with servlet (not spring) and it worked fine.

I use: - IntellijIDEA 2016.1.1 - Java 1.8 - Spring 4.2.5

Can you help me???

Thanks

Answer 1

What version of tomcat are you using? 9.0.0 milestone? Grab JRebel 6.4.2 release from here and install the zip using the same instructions as for installing the nightly build at here, should fix the error.