"IllegalArgumentException: Value does not implement specified type" error deploying application on EAP 6
Issue
We see a Spring exception when deploying out application on JBoss EAP 6:
ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/exampleapp]] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 365) JBWEB000287: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Value does not implement specified type
at org.springframework.util.Assert.isTrue(Assert.java:65) [spring-core-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.registerResolvableDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:325) [spring-beans-2.5.jar:2.5]
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.postProcessBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:163) [spring-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:345) [spring-context-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261) [spring-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199) [spring-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45) [spring-2.5.1.jar:2.5.1]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:3339) [jbossweb.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3777) [jbossweb.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.doStart(WebDeploymentService.java:156) [jboss-as-web.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.access$000(WebDeploymentService.java:60) [jboss-as-web.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService$1.run(WebDeploymentService.java:93) [jboss-as-web.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
Environment
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6
- Spring
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