Strange java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown on jetty startup

Question

Whenever I deploy jetty application I hit this issue. Looks like some jar or class is broken.

• Colleagues compiling exactly same code, doesn't hit the issue. Even if the deploy to the same computer. (we use git and maven)
• Deleting local maven repository ~/.m2 and rebuilding doesn't help.
• Can run same jetty app locally without any issues.
• My initial suspect was that some jar is broken. Tried jar tvf $every_jar and haven't found anything.

Any ideas how can I debug this? Looks really mysterious and I suspect is that some file get corrupted.

Stack trace:
2014-10-21 13:29:25.123:WARN:oejw.WebAppContext:Failed startup of context o.e.j.w.WebAppContext{/,file:/XYZ/},/XYZ/webapps/root
javax.servlet.ServletException: jersey-serlvet
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:553)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:344)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:791)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:265)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1242)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:717)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:494)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.bindings.StandardStarter.processBinding(StandardStarter.java:39)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.AppLifeCycle.runBindings(AppLifeCycle.java:186)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.requestAppGoal(DeploymentManager.java:494)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.addApp(DeploymentManager.java:141)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider.fileAdded(ScanningAppProvider.java:145)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider$1.fileAdded(ScanningAppProvider.java:56)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportAddition(Scanner.java:615)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportDifferences(Scanner.java:540)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:403)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.doStart(Scanner.java:337)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider.doStart(ScanningAppProvider.java:121)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.startAppProvider(DeploymentManager.java:555)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.doStart(DeploymentManager.java:230)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AggregateLifeCycle.doStart(AggregateLifeCycle.java:81)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:58)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:96)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:282)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1274)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1197)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:473)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main.start(Main.java:615)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main.main(Main.java:96)

followed by

Caused by:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6241
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jersey.spi.scanning.AnnotationScannerListener.onProcess(AnnotationScannerListener.java:133)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.uri.FileSchemeScanner$1.f(FileSchemeScanner.java:86)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.util.Closing.f(Closing.java:71)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.uri.FileSchemeScanner.scanDirectory(FileSchemeScanner.java:83)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.uri.FileSchemeScanner.scanDirectory(FileSchemeScanner.java:80)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.uri.FileSchemeScanner.scanDirectory(FileSchemeScanner.java:80)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.uri.FileSchemeScanner.scan(FileSchemeScanner.java:71)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.PackageNamesScanner.scan(PackageNamesScanner.java:223)
        at com.sun.jersey.core.spi.scanning.PackageNamesScanner.scan(PackageNamesScanner.java:139)
        at com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig.init(ScanningResourceConfig.java:80)
        at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.init(PackagesResourceConfig.java:104)
        at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:78)
        at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:89)
        at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig(WebComponent.java:700)

Answer 1

For your 2 errors ..

javax.servlet.ServletException: jersey-serlvet

This means you have a typo in your WEB-INF/web.xml

As for this one ..

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6241
    at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)

I've seen similar ones when using an old version of asm.jar with newer compiled Java bytecode.

• For Java 15 bytecode, use asm 7.3.1+
• For Java 14 bytecode, use asm 7.2+
• For Java 13 bytecode, use asm 7.1+
• For Java 12 bytecode, use asm 7.1+
• For Java 11 bytecode, use asm 7.0+
• For Java 10 bytecode, use asm 6.1+
• For Java 9 bytecode, use asm 6.0+
• For Java 8 bytecode, use asm 5.0.1+
• For Java 6 or Java 7 bytecode, (Use asm 3.1 if you must, but know that asm 5.x is also going to work here too)

Ensure that your asm.jar (or org.objectweb.asm.jar) is current.

There is a slightly less common issue where the class itself is bad. Sometimes seen with classes that are compiled in one JDK (such as IBM) and then run on another Java (like Sun/Oracle).

A real world example of this would be the icu4j-2.6.1.jar and its com/ibm/icu/impl/data/LocaleElements_zh__PINYIN.class jar entry.

Answer 2

Use newer version of jetty-maven-plugin.

More information --> Bug 419801 - Upgrade to asm5 for jdk8

So, edit your pom.xml like this：

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
    <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>9.3.0.M2</version>
</plugin>

Note the groupId is "org.eclipse.jetty".