[jira] [Commented] (AMQ-4777) ActiveMQ broker silently fails to start in Karaf

["Christopher L. Shannon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher L. Shannon commented on AMQ-4777:
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Needs review now that Karaf is being updated to version 4.

> ActiveMQ broker silently fails to start in Karaf
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQ-4777
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4777
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OSGi/Karaf
>    Affects Versions: 5.8.0
>         Environment: Kubuntu 64-bit, Oracle JDK 7u40, Karaf 2.3.3
>            Reporter: Amichai Rothman
>            Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>             Fix For: NEEDS_REVIEW
>
>
> I have an application, deployed into Karaf. I install the activemq-broker feature, and one of the app bundles uses ActiveMQConnectionFactory to get a javax.jms.Connection instance and then uses the JMS API only (no other ActiveMQ-specific APIs in use). I'll note that this bundle depends on another bundle which uses the JMS API as well (no ActiveMQ imports there at all). The application also depends on other karaf features such as cxf-dosgi.
> ActiveMQ fails to start in a couple of ways, depending on the order of installation of the features and app:
> At first I got a LinkageError:
> java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving method "org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.createConne
> ction()Ljavax/jms/Connection;" the class loader (instance of org/eclipse/osgi/internal/baseadaptor/DefaultClassLoader) of the current
>  class, com/myprojectgroup/bus/activemq/ActiveMQSession, and the class loader (instance of org/eclipse/osgi/internal/baseadaptor/D
> efaultClassLoader) for resolved class, org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQConnectionFactory, have different Class objects for the type Ljava
> x/jms/Connection; used in the signature
>         at com.myprojectgroup.bus.activemq.ActiveMQSession.createConnection(ActiveMQSession.java:38)
>         at com.myprojectgroup.messaging.jms.Session.open(Session.java:70)[68:com.myprojectgroup.messaging:0.1.0.SNAPSHOT]
>         at com.myprojectgroup.messaging.jms.Session$1.run(Session.java:108)[68:com.myprojectgroup.messaging:0.1.0.SNAPSHOT]
> The only bundle that exports the javax.jms package is org.apache.geronimo.specs.geronimo-jms_1.1_spec, though after further investigation I found that the activemq-web-console bundle does have another copy of it internally, which I think might be the cause of the conflict (it does not import the package in the manifest, so I can't just remove the package from the jar since it won't find the package exported by the geronimo-jms bundle without a corresponding import declaration). The activemq-osgi bundle has a DynamicImport-Package: *, which may further complicate things. If it also had an explicit Import-Package directive for the statically-linked classes it uses such as javax.jms ones, perhaps it would go through the regular bundle classloading mechanism and avoid the problem - I think it takes precedence over dynamic imports, though I'm not sure).
> Next, I played around with reordering the installation, and got to another failure mode where there is no exception at all or any error in the logs, but the broker simply fails to start silently. Perhaps this is also caused by classloader issues but they are just occurring somewhere within ActiveMQ and being silently ignored. This mode of failure I've managed to recreate easily:
> On a fresh stock installation of Karaf 2.3.3,  add two feature urls:
> features:addurl mvn:org.apache.activemq/activemq-karaf/5.8.0/xml/features mvn:org.apache.cxf.dosgi/cxf-dosgi/1.6-SNAPSHOT/xml/features
> (you might need to add the apache snapshot repo to karaf for it to find the dosgi snapshot feature)
> And then install them in this order:
> features:install -v cxf-dosgi-discovery-distributed activemq-broker
> The broker will not be started, although the logs will have no errors.
> Strangely, if you now uninstall the activemq-web-console bundle (not feature) and restart karaf, the broker will start ok. Also if you install only activemq-broker and not dosgi, it will start ok.
> To simplify, I found that instead of the dosgi feature it's enough to install and start the mvn:org.osgi/org.osgi.compendium/4.3.1 bundle before installing activemq-broker to make it fail - this is from looking at the innards of the dosgi feature, however if I remove this bundle from the feature the broker still fails to start, so it's not the only bundle causing problems, but just an example.
> The only workaround I've found so far is to install everything, then uninstall the activemq-web-console bundle and restart - then everything works as it should. Strangely, not installing it in the first place doesn't work either - the broker won't start unless the web console is first started, then uninstalled.
> Some details of the LinkageError are in http://pastebin.com/TKZt7hUA (pasted to karaf irc channel originally).



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