Error using geronimo/OpenJPA on IBM Linux JVM

[Brian Dellert <bd...@rcn.com>]

I have an application which is packaged in an ear file and leverages EJB/JPA.  One of my entity classes uses the OpenJPA-specific ElementJoinColumn annotation.  When I deploy this application on Geronimo 2.0.2 on Linux using the Sun JVM, everything works correctly.  But, if I attempt this using the IBM 32-bit 1.5 or 1.6 LInux JVMs, I get the following warning when the geronimo server starts up:

3761  myPU  WARN   [main] openjpa.Enhance - An exception was thrown while attempting to perform class file transformation on "com/my/company/ejb/entity/MyClass":
java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type org.apache.openjpa.persistence.jdbc.ElementJoinColumn not present
 at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getAnnotation(AnnotationHelper.java:38)
 at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getDeclaredAnnotations(AnnotationHelper.java:50)
 at com.ibm.oti.reflect.Method.getDeclaredAnnotations(Method.java:31)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaredAnnotations(Method.java:722)
 at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.getAnnotations(AccessibleObject.java:191)
 at com.ibm.oti.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:20)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:711)
 at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.isAnnotationPresent(AccessibleObject.java:187)
 at org.apache.openjpa.lib.util.J2DoPriv5Helper$3.run(J2DoPriv5Helper.java:87)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:197)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.getPersistenceStrategy(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:119)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.isDefaultPersistent(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:315)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.AbstractMetaDataDefaults.populateFromReflection(AbstractMetaDataDefaults.java:241)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.AbstractMetaDataDefaults.populate(AbstractMetaDataDefaults.java:168)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.populate(PersistenceMetaDataDefaults.java:225)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.addMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:752)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.addMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:738)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.getMetaData(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:651)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.parseClassAnnotations(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:479)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.parse(AnnotationPersistenceMetaDataParser.java:351)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceMetaDataFactory.load(PersistenceMetaDataFactory.java:229)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.getMetaDataInternal(MetaDataRepository.java:433)
 at org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.getMetaData(MetaDataRepository.java:288)
 at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.<init>(PCEnhancer.java:244)
 at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.<init>(PCEnhancer.java:215)
 at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCClassFileTransformer.transform(PCClassFileTransformer.java:127)
 at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl$ClassTransformerImpl.transform(PersistenceProviderImpl.java:170)
 at org.apache.geronimo.persistence.TransformerWrapper.transform(TransformerWrapper.java:43)
 at org.apache.geronimo.transformer.TransformerCollection.transform(TransformerCollection.java:43)
 at sun.instrument.TransformerManager.transform(TransformerManager.java:141)
 at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.transform(InstrumentationImpl.java:174)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:258)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:151)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:589)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$400(URLClassLoader.java:123)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:1034)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:279)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:491)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadOptimizedClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:431)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:279)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:597)
 at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method)
 at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:68)
 at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:129)
 at java.lang.Class.forNameImpl(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:163)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.load(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:375)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.loadClass(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:355)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EnterpriseBeanBuilder.build(EnterpriseBeanBuilder.java:75)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EjbJarBuilder.build(EjbJarBuilder.java:52)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:489)
 at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createEjbJar(Assembler.java:370)
 at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.OpenEjbSystemGBean.createEjbJar(OpenEjbSystemGBean.java:391)
 at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.EjbModuleImpl.start(EjbModuleImpl.java:123)
 at org.apache.geronimo.openejb.EjbModuleImplGBean.doStart(EjbModuleImplGBean.java:39)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:998)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:268)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.start(GBeanInstance.java:541)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency.attemptFullStart(GBeanDependency.java:111)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency.addTarget(GBeanDependency.java:146)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanDependency$1.running(GBeanDependency.java:120)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:176)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.access$300(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:44)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor$RawLifecycleBroadcaster.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:254)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:294)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:555)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:456)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.KernelConfigurationManager.start(KernelConfigurationManager.java:188)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:562)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor25.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:832)
 at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.EditableConfigurationManager$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$ac6db992.startConfiguration(<generated>)
 at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.EmbeddedDaemon.doStartup(EmbeddedDaemon.java:162)
 at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.EmbeddedDaemon.execute(EmbeddedDaemon.java:79)
 at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.main(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:45)
 at org.apache.geronimo.cli.AbstractCLI.executeMain(AbstractCLI.java:67)
 at org.apache.geronimo.cli.daemon.DaemonCLI.main(DaemonCLI.java:30)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.jdbc.ElementJoinColumn
 at java.lang.Class.forNameImpl(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:163)
 at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationHelper.getAnnotation(AnnotationHelper.java:33)
 ... 88 more


This effectively breaks things at runtime since OpenJPA ends up in a bad state.  It should be noted that I have tried this with Geronimo 2.1.3 as well, but get the same error.  The version info for the JVMs I am using is as follows:

java version "1.5.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pxi32devifx-20080811b (SR8a))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux x86-32 j9vmxi3223ifx-20080811 (JIT enabled)
J9VM - 20080809_21892_lHdSMr
JIT  - 20080620_1845_r8
GC   - 200806_19)
JCL  - 20080811a

java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxi3260sr2-20080818_01(SR2))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux x86-32 jvmxi3260-20080816_22093 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - 20080816_022093_lHdSMr
JIT  - r9_20080721_1330ifx2
GC   - 20080724_AA)
JCL  - 20080808_02

It should also be noted that I am seeing the same error when using the IBM JVM on AIX.

Any insight into what might be causing this issue would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

- Brian