wildfly 16, log4j 2.17.0, NoSuchFieldError: EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY

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I get an error during wildfly startup with the following message:

NoSuchFieldError: EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY

The message also say that this error occurs in undertow deployment. Could anybody give me a hint of what is going on here and how to solve that?

Below is the beginning of the stack trace.

at org.wildfly.extension.undertow@24.0.1.Final//org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService$1.run(UndertowDeploymentService.java:90)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final//org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1990)
at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1486)
at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1377)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final//org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:513)

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationSource.(ConfigurationSource.java:56) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.NullConfiguration.(NullConfiguration.java:32) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.(LoggerContext.java:85) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.createContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:254) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.locateContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:218) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.getContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:136) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.getContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:123) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.getContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:117) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:150) at deployment.taggable-server.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:47) at org.apache.logging.log4j.api@2.14.1//org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:196) at org.apache.logging.log4j.api@2.14.1//org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:599)

3 Answers

I had the same problem, you can solve it like this:

  1. For a war:

    with a jboss-deployment-structure.xml inside src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <jboss-deployment-structure>
      <deployment>
         <exclusions>
            <module name="org.apache.logging.log4j.api"/>
        </exclusions>
      </deployment>
    </jboss-deployment-structure>
    
  2. For an ear:

    with a jboss-deployment-structure.xml inside src/main/application/META-INF/ like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <jboss-deployment-structure>
      <sub-deployment name="mywar.war">
         <exclusions>
            <module name="org.apache.logging.log4j.api"/>
        </exclusions>
      </sub-deployment>
    </jboss-deployment-structure>
    

You need to exclude the API module from your deployment. Your other option is to use WildFly 26 which include the 2.16 version of the API.

update the log4j and log4j-api to 2.16.0 version.

if you are using the spring-boot so, add tag in pom.xml

 <properties> 
    <log4j2-version>2.16.0</log4j2-version>
  </properties>

and

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.16.0</version>
        </dependency>

in the pom.xml

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