Java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter with Glassfish and JasperServer

Summary:

This article provides troubleshooting tips related to receiving a java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter error/exception.

You can encounter this exception when using Glassfish 2.1.1 and JasperReports Server v3.5.1

Symptoms:

Glassfish server is started but couldn't deploy JasperServer.

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.(Z)V Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.(Z)V at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.(DebuggingClassWriter.java:47)

at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.getClassWriter(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:30)

at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:24)

at net.sf.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216)

at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory$Generator.create(KeyFactory.java:145)

at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:117)

at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:108)

at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:104)

at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.(Enhancer.java:69)

at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.cglib.CGLIBLazyInitializer.getProxyFactory(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:107)

at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.cglib.CGLIBProxyFactory.postInstantiate(CGLIBProxyFactory.java:43)

at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.buildProxyFactory(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:162)

at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:135)

at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:55)

at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.(EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.java:56)

at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.(EntityMetamodel.java:269)

at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.(AbstractEntityPersister.java:425)

at org.hibernate.persister.entity.JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.(JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.java:91)

Causes:

Glassfish 2.1.1 use a new version of asm jar (3.x) and it conflicts with cglib-2.1_3.jar.

Resolutions:

Replace cglib-2.1_3.jar(shipped with JasperReports Server v3.5.1) by cglib-nodep-2.2.jar(shipped with JasperReports Server v3.7) and everything should run fine.

Also, but it has to be tested, you can even get rid of asm-1.5.3.jar and asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar since cglib-nodep-2.2.jar includes asm library.