Quartz JobDetail failing with java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.collections.SetUtils.orderedSet(Ljava/util/Set;)Ljava/util/Set; in JBoss EAP

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Issue

  • We are seeing java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.collections on one of our servers, the same ear is deployed on other servers and is not having the issue. See the log message below:
09:32:48,639 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/mmpsBatch]] (MSC service thread 1-18) Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'exampleJob' defined in class path resource [spring/example.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.quartz.JobDetail]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.collections.SetUtils.orderedSet(Ljava/util/Set;)Ljava/util/Set;
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1482) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
...
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.quartz.JobDetail]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.collections.SetUtils.orderedSet(Ljava/util/Set;)Ljava/util/Set;
  at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:163) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:105) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.<init>(BeanWrapperImpl.java:160) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(JobDetailFactoryBean.java:215) [spring-context-support-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1541) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1479) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  ... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.collections.SetUtils.orderedSet(Ljava/util/Set;)Ljava/util/Set;
  at org.quartz.JobDetail.<init>(JobDetail.java:85) [quartz-all-1.6.0.jar:1.6.0]
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_21]
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) [rt.jar:1.7.0_21]
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) [rt.jar:1.7.0_21]
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525) [rt.jar:1.7.0_21]
  at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:148) [spring-beans-3.2.4.RELEASE.jar:3.2.4.RELEASE]
  ... 25 more

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x

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