Tomcat 8 is failing to find jar after updating to JWS 3.1.0
Issue
- After upgrading to Tomcat 8.0.36 from JWS 3.1.0, we started seeing FileNotFoundException from Tomcat trying to look up and find some strange jar that is not provided in any lib folders:
WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.scan Failed to scan [file:/path/to/jws/tomcat8/lib/strangelib.jar] from classloader hierarchy
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /path/to/jws/tomcat8/lib/strangelib.jar (No such file or directory)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:225)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:155)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:166)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:130)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.JarFileUrlJar.<init>(JarFileUrlJar.java:60)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.JarFactory.newInstance(JarFactory.java:43)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.process(StandardJarScanner.java:322)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.scan(StandardJarScanner.java:272)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processJarsForWebFragments(ContextConfig.java:1887)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1127)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:306)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:95)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5202)
Environment
- JBoss Web Server (JWS) 3.1.0
- Tomcat 8.0.36
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