Why I am getting org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 19

Question

Java version:8

Tomcat version: 8.5.8

I am getting below exception, however it is not impacting any functionality as such, but it is creating logs in catalina.out which it supposed to create in different file. Also how to eliminate this issue so that tomcat won't throw any exception and create logs file as expected.

Exception I am getting

25-Mar-2021 14:57:29.833 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar Unable to process Jar entry [module-info.class] from Jar [file:/home/diwakarb/apache-tomcat-8.5.8-VerifiedSMSCustomApp/webapps/VerifiedSMSCustomApp/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-2.11.1.jar] for annotations
 org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 19
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Constant.readConstant(Constant.java:97)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ConstantPool.<init>(ConstantPool.java:54)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readConstantPool(ClassParser.java:174)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:83)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2053)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:2000)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1970)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1923)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1163)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:775)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:299)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5087)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:752)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:728)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:952)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1823)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        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:748)

25-Mar-2021 14:57:33.784 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

Logs I am getting in catalina

 [INFO ] 2021-03-25 14:57:34.168 [localhost-startStop-1] ApplicationCommonLog - VERIFIED_SMS DBConnection : get initial context : initial context is org.apache.naming.NamingContext@f7b34df
[INFO ] 2021-03-25 14:57:34.175 [localhost-startStop-1] ApplicationCommonLog - CORE PROPERTIES ADDED SUCCESSFULLY

It should supposed to logs these logs in different file instead of catalina

log4j2.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="warn">
    <Properties>
        <Property name="basePath">/home/diwakarb/apache-tomcat-8.5.8-VerifiedSMSCustomApp/logs</Property>
        <Property name="LOG_PATTERN">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p :- %m%n</Property>
    </Properties>

    <Appenders>
        <RollingFile name="commonLogger" fileName="${basePath}/common.log"
                     filePattern="${basePath}/common.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-hh}">
            <PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
            <Policies>
                <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
            </Policies>
        </RollingFile>
        <RollingFile name="errorLogger" fileName="${basePath}/error.log"
                     filePattern="${basePath}/error.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-hh}">
            <PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
            <Policies>
                <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
            </Policies>
        </RollingFile>
        <Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <PatternLayout pattern="[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n"/>
        </Console>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <AsyncLogger name="ApplicationCommanLog" level="debug" additivity="false" includeLocation="true">
            <appender-ref ref="commonLogger" level="debug"/>
        </AsyncLogger>
        <AsyncLogger name="ApplicationErrorLog" level="debug" additivity="false">
            <appender-ref ref="errorLogger" level="debug"/>
        </AsyncLogger>
        <Root level="debug" additivity="false">
            <appender-ref ref="console"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

pom.xml

<?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.acl</groupId>
    <artifactId>VerifiedSMSCustomApp</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <verifiedsms.client.version>1.2</verifiedsms.client.version>
    </properties>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>in-project</id>
            <name>In Project Repo</name>
            <url>file:///${project.basedir}/lib</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- In-project Verified SMS dependencies. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>vsmsagent</groupId>
            <artifactId>lib_verified_sms_client</artifactId>
            <version>${verifiedsms.client.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>vsmsagent</groupId>
            <artifactId>lib_verified_sms_data_munging</artifactId>
            <version>${verifiedsms.client.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>vsmsagent</groupId>
            <artifactId>lib_verified_sms_hashing</artifactId>
            <version>${verifiedsms.client.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Standard dependencies. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.auth</groupId>
            <artifactId>google-auth-library-oauth2-http</artifactId>
            <version>0.21.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
            <version>28.1-jre</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
            <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
            <version>1.23.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
            <artifactId>grpc-netty-shaded</artifactId>
            <version>1.23.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
            <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
            <version>1.23.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
            <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
            <version>1.23.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.crypto.tink</groupId>
            <artifactId>tink</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
            <artifactId>bcpkix-jdk15on</artifactId>
            <version>1.58</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- For JDK 11 and above. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <!--  ACL newly added -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>9.0.10</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>9.0.10</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.11.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.11.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
            <version>20160212</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>redis.clients</groupId>
            <artifactId>jedis</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.0</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.lmax</groupId>
            <artifactId>disruptor</artifactId>
            <version>3.4.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
            <version>4.5.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpcore-nio</artifactId>
            <version>4.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
            <version>4.4.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpasyncclient</artifactId>
            <version>4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
            <version>4.5.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <build>
        <finalName>VerifiedSMSCustomApp</finalName>
        <extensions>
            <extension>
                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.6.2</version>
            </extension>
        </extensions>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.6.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.9.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
                    <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.23.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</pluginArtifact>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>compile</goal>
                            <goal>compile-custom</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Answer 1

I have done work around, not sure this is the right way or not, but it worked for me without impacting any functionality change.

In catalina.properties file, tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip section

I have added jackson-*.jar to ignore this dependency at run time as in my case it is searching for this dependency.