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Can I force a maven dependency A to use a specific version of a dependency B, whilst using a different version of dependency B along-side it?

I have two maven projects, lets call them master and aux. Master has a dependence on aux, and also on a specific version of org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient. Aux has a dependence on a later version of org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient.
e.g.
<project...>
<artifactId>master</artifactId>
<groupId>com.my-company</groupId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>earlier version</version>
</dependency>
<!--<uses later version of http client>-->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.my-company</groupId>
<artifactId>aux</artifactId>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
</project>
However, aux depends on classes only found in the newer version of httpclient, and master's dependencies on httpclient aren't forwards compatible, so whichever version I exclude, REST calls fail in the expected places.
Is there a way to require aux to use the newer dependency, and master to use the older one?
I know that I can reconcile aux and master by patching them to be able to use the same dependency, but this would be far from ideal.

You can't have multiple versions of the same library/classes on the classpath at the same time. You would have to separate 'master' and 'aux' into separate jars, embedding the needed version of httpclient, and load each jar with its own classloader.
There is a framework called OSGi that does exactly this. It could be overkill for you application, but if you'd like to get started you could take a look at OSGi enRoute.

You can write a custom classloader to load specified version of class, because the default classloader will just pick the first one on the classpath it can find.

Upgrading gwt from 2.1.1 to 2.8.0: ServiceConfigurationError: org.apache.juli.logging.Log: Provider org.eclipse.jetty.apache.jsp.JuliLog not a subtype

After upgrading gwt from version 2.1.1 to 2.8.0, I got the error message
2017-04-20 12:59:19.551:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:main: FAILED c.g.g.d.s.j.WebAppContextWithReload#341fbaf1{/,file:/C:/Users/xxx/.IntelliJIdea2017.1/system/gwt/xxx.97baa614/xxx.fdf824a8/run/www/,STARTING}{C:\Users\xxx\.IntelliJIdea2017.1\system\gwt\xxx.97baa614\xx.fdf824a8\run\www}: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: org.apache.juli.logging.Log: Provider org.eclipse.jetty.apache.jsp.JuliLog not a subtype
java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: org.apache.juli.logging.Log: Provider org.eclipse.jetty.apache.jsp.JuliLog not a subtype
I found some other posts with similar messages, like this or this, but the situation seems to be different:
I do not use Maven or Ant, just pure IntelliJ, I have no reference to any Tomcat library, and I am not aware of any JSP in our application.
I found through debugging that first the class loader com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.Jettylauncher$WebAppContextWithReload$WebAppClassLoaderExtension loads class org.eclipse.jetty.apache.jsp.JuliLog including interface org.apache.juli.logging.Log.
Then, later interface org.apache.juli.logging.Log is loaded by sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader triggered indirectly by
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext()
which calls method initialize of an
org.eclipse.jetty.jsp.JettyJspServlet
instance.
I have no idea why a JspServlet needs to be initialized at all, as no JSPs are used in the application, as far as I see, just a few Servlets. And it seems all the classes involved in this conflict are contained in the single jar gwt-dev.jar, so I see no possibility to influence any class loading behavior via class path settings.
Any idea how I could resolve this?

I also got this error upgrading from gwt from version 2.4 to 2.8.2.
Jake W's answer helped me.
To solve this, I ran a maven dependency tree on my project to figure out what was referencing jetty's apache-jsp.
To run the dependency tree, in Eclipse I created a new run configuration -> maven build -> with the goals "dependency:tree -Doutput=/dependency/file.txt". Once it's run, the console output will show where it saves the output. It should be the same location that you referenced with the -Doutput option.
Look for something like this in the output file:
- org.eclipse.jetty:apache-jsp:jar:9.2.14.v20151106:compile
And then look up in the tree to see where it's being pulled in from. In my case it came from this:
+- com.google.gwt:gwt-dev:jar:2.8.2:compile
+- net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:jar:2.19:compile
\- org.eclipse.jetty:apache-jsp:jar:9.2.14.v20151106:compile
Once you know where it's coming from, (assuming you're using maven) you can add an exclusion in your pom.xml file for it:
</dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-jsp</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
This worked for me. Thanks :)

I saw this error when I recently upgraded to GWT 2.8.0. Please try to exclude jetty-apache-Jsp related dependencies from your project.
You may see other jetty related issues as well, so please also make sure you are using exactly the same jetty version as GWT 2.8.0 is using.
I'm on mobile at the moment, unable to add more details, but I hope that can be a useful direction to go. Please add your comments if you still see issues, I will then have a look and update the answer when I'm on my laptop.

I have just ran into this exception after adding gwt-test-utils:0.53 dependency (with GWT 2.8.1)

I am using ant and all information found regarding this error indicated there was 2 versions of Juli Logging in the classpath, but every search came up with only gwt-dev.jar. Production builds worked fine, but dev mode did not which needs gwt-dev.jar.
Part of the build process has the jars copied from a local lib directory to war/WEB-INF/lib to pack into the war. The ant script points to the local lib directory for debugging, not the ones meant for the war file. Despite the war location not being listed in the ant file as a class path, it was still loading it.
Ultimately, gwt-dev.jar was conflicting with the copied version of itself.

Cannot instantiate the type ADBDataSource using axis2

After using Eclipse EE and Eclipse Axis2 Code Generator plugin, I got a two
operation generated java files with the same error:
Cannot instantiate the type ADBDataSource ConcatRequest.java
Cannot instantiate the type ADBDataSource ConcatResponse.java
Here is the problem:
org.apache.axiom.om.OMDataSource dataSource = new
org.apache.axis2.databinding.ADBDataSource(this,MY_QNAME);
This code appears in both ConcatRequest.java and ConcatResponse.java and
causes the error. I see that ADBDataSource is abstract and cannot be instantiated.
I'm totally new to Axis and I don't know how to solve this problem. Please help.

I had this problem due to a version mismatch of axis2-adb. Safest way to deal with this problem is to have a look at the lib folder of the eclipse plugin (eclipse/(dropins|plugins)/ ... .jar). Then look for the versions of the dependecies and include them (the ones you actually need) in your build path.

i faced the same issue while generating JAVA Stubs from WSDL. Following are the steps I used to solve the issues :
Follow the below link to generate Stubs : https://support.pcmiler.com/en/support/solutions/articles/19000053078-java-client-axis2-code-generator-for-eclipse.
Now there is a small tweak to this link. After doing point no 10 & 11 as mentioned in the above link , only use axis2-1.7.9 to generate your stubs and when they are generated used the jars mentioned in the \axis2-1.7.9\lib in your build path.
Hope this solves your issue.

Old topic, but I was working on a legacy project with several subprojects.
In one of those subprojects, I came across this same message.
It also was a version problem (Maven dependencies...).
Ctrl-Click (in Eclipse/IntelliJ) on "ADBDataSource". Which version is it? For me it was 1.5.6, but in my pom.xml there was only
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2</artifactId>
<version>1.7.4</version>
</dependency>
However, this subproject had a dependency on another subproject which WAS using 1.5.6 (I found it by searching in the whole project for "1.5.6" using the Notepad++ "Search / Find in Files" menu option).
Then in the dependency to that other project, I excluded 1.5.6 :
<dependency>
<groupId>com.group.id</groupId>
<artifactId>anotherproject</artifactId>
<version>version</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
After adding the exclusion, the project did use the 1.7.4 version.

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: org.apache.http.message.BasicLineFormatter.INSTANCE from Mashape Unirest in Java application

I have a Maven Java project that uses Mashape Unirest for sending HTTP requests to other URLs. I am currently writing an integration test (using TestNG) that sends a normal HTTP request using Unirest. When I run the integration test through Maven (via the Failsafe plugin), the request is sent out successfully. However, when I try to run the integration test via Eclipse, I keep on getting the following error:
FAILED: getCurrentTimeTest
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.<init>(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:52)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.<init>(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:56)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.<clinit>(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:46)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.<init>(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:72)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.<init>(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:84)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.<clinit>(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:59)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager$InternalConnectionFactory.<init>(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:487)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.<init>(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:147)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.<init>(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:136)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.<init>(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:112)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder.build(HttpClientBuilder.java:726)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.options.Options.refresh(Options.java:41)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.options.Options.<clinit>(Options.java:27)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpClientHelper.prepareRequest(HttpClientHelper.java:141)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpClientHelper.requestAsync(HttpClientHelper.java:80)
at com.mashape.unirest.request.BaseRequest.asStringAsync(BaseRequest.java:56)
at ...
I am also able to reproduce this error using a basic Java application script.
I have made sure that the dependencies I am using in my pom.xml file are the latest and greatest, as seen below:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mashape.unirest</groupId>
<artifactId>unirest-java</artifactId>
<version>1.3.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpasyncclient</artifactId>
<version>4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.json</groupId>
<artifactId>json</artifactId>
<version>20140107</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2</version>
</dependency>
I have also checked out the source code of BasicLineFormatter.java, both from the source file downloaded to Eclipse and from Apache's Httpcore Github repo. In the Github repo, notice how the INSTANCE field is defined for the 4.3.x branch and the trunk branch, but not in older branches like 4.2.x. However, I am indeed using version 4.3.2 in my project, so I should be using a JAR file for Httpcore that has the latest version of BasicLineFormatter. I know that, based on the Maven Dependencies JAR files that are in my project, that I am indeed using the latest versions of these Apache dependencies, not the older versions specified as downstream dependencies of my project.
I have checked other various SOF and blog posts about this issue, such as Mashape Unirest Java : java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError and this blog post too, but they all seem to be talking about solving the NoSuchFieldError problem for Android. However, I'm dealing with a standalone Java application, not an Android application.
I am at a loss in determining how to troubleshoot this issue. Anyone have any idea what I need to do?
UPDATE
Instead of showing my test case, I will reduce the illustration of a reproduction of this problem to just a simple one-liner Java application, because the problem exists with any Java application or test case run through Eclipse, not just one particular test:
System.out.println(Unirest.get("http://www.google.com").asStringAsync().get().getBody());
Normally, this should print the HTML of the Google home page, but I instead get the NoSuchFieldError stack trace.
FIXED!
The problem was that the AWS SDK (it's on my classpath because I'm developing for Elastic Beanstalk) had a conflicting JAR file. Using Oleg's solution (thanks BTW), I printed the following output in a unit test:
jar:file:/some/path/aws-java-sdk/1.7.1/third-party/httpcomponents-client-4.2.3/httpcore-4.2.jar!/org/apache/http/message/BasicLineFormatter.class
I'll have to rearrange my classpath so that AWS SDK is no longer conflicting.

The only plausible explanation to this problem is there is an older version of HttpCore on the classpath (unless you also want to consider a possibility of green men from Mars messing with your computer remotely from a flying saucer).
You can add this snippet to your code to find out what jar the class gets picked up from. This might help find out why that jar is on your classpath in the first place.
ClassLoader classLoader = MyClass.class.getClassLoader();
URL resource = classLoader.getResource("org/apache/http/message/BasicLineFormatter.class");
System.out.println(resource);
This basically tells me that in my case the jar resides in the local maven repository and likely to have been added to the classpath by Maven
jar:file:/home/oleg/.m2/repository/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpcore/4.3.1/httpcore-4.3.1.jar!/org/apache/http/message/BasicLineFormatter.class

As already mentioned by previous comments, It's mainly because of the conflicting versions of httpcore jar, the static field INSTANCE is been added to BasicLineFormatter class in versions > 4.3.1, Though you might have added the latest version of the httpcore jar in your dependencies, but its highly possible that other (lower) version of jar is getting picked up.
So, first to confirm that, wrong jar is getting picked up, Use the following line of code -
ClassLoader classLoader = <Your Class>.class.getClassLoader();
URL resource = classLoader.getResource("org/apache/http/message/BasicLineFormatter.class");
System.out.println(resource);
If this prints, the lower version of the jar, then it's confirmed that it's picking the lower version of the httpcore jar (May be from other dependencies of your project),
Solution -
Add following maven/gradle dependencies at the top of dependency list (Or above the other project dependency which caused the conflict) -
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mashape.unirest</groupId>
<artifactId>unirest-java</artifactId>
<version>1.4.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
<version>4.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.4.1</version>
</dependency>

I faced the same exception using unirest:
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.<init>(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:52)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.options.Options.refresh(Options.java:55)
at com.mashape.unirest.http.options.Options.<clinit>(Options.java:36)
And found it was due to DefaultConnectionKeepAliveStrategy.INSTANCE; and the conflicting jar was apache-httpcomponents-httpclient.jar in my classpath. Adding this post to help anyone who faces similar exception

I got this Exception: Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
Solution:
This happens if you have two different version classes in your classpath…. […], So I first find that class (one version of class), click that class, select build path, then I click remove from build path.

if you are using aws sdk this error occurs because of dependency mismatch.
To avoid this error do the following:
1.Put the dependecies in the required order aws sdk and the end preferably
2.Add shade plugin to the project
This solved my problem

you can refer to my answer in
HTTPClient Example - Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
my case is i have httpclient-4.4.1.jar, and httpcore-4.4.1.jar in my class path, but JVM loaded BasicLineFormatter from httpcore-4.0.jar

JAXWS code generation and implementation along side Spring for JDK1.5

We're trying to generate source code stubs from a series of WSDLs (each with their own XSDs). We can do this fine and works perfectly under JDK1.6, however we need it to work under JDK1.5.
We're using jaxws-maven-plugin to generate the source code, however it depends on the wsimport binary being available (this is not available in JDK1.5). We found a work around for this, we can now generate the source code.
The final problem comes when we try and use the compiled stub code with Spring (2.5.6) we're using a JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean to interface with the generated client code. We get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/ws/soap/Addressing. I investigated why this was and found that the javax.xml.ws/javax-api/2.1 dependency did not contain this class. I upgraded the version number to 2.1-1 and now when we build the project (to generate the source code) we get the following error:
cannot find symbol
symbol : method partName()
location : #interface javax.jws.WebParam
Can anyone provide a solution to this so we can generate our JAXWS client stub code and make it work with the JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean?
Thanks in advance
Jonathan

It seems that they mess with this jar, see this link.
The workaround is the following :
delete M2_REPO/javax/xml/ws/jaxws-api/2.1/ directory
use this dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
put these repositories at the top of your list :
<repository>
<id>javanet</id>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>javanet legacy</id>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/1/</url>
<layout>legacy</layout>
</repository>

I managed to solve this one, after hours of studying the dependencies and looking at what each of them had inside I discovered that the dependency javax.xml.ws:jaxws-api:2.1-1 was required, but we had to take a copy of this dependency and take out:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.jws</groupId>
<artifactId>jsr181</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
Then I had to include the following dependency in the pom.xml of my application:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.jws</groupId>
<artifactId>jsr181-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0-MR1</version>
</dependency>
This is far from ideal, we have to maintain a separate proprietary dependency in our maven repository and remember to include this dependency. The annoying thing is Maven doesn't allow me to exclude by version number (only by groupId and artifactId). If anyone has a suggestion to make this solution better please let me know.
Thanks for your help.

We're using jaxws-maven-plugin to generate the source code, however it depends on the wsimport binary being available (this is not available in JDK1.5). We found a work around for this, we can now generate the source code.
Actually, wsimport, which is part of JAX-WS, is not included in Java 5 (unlike Java 6 which includes JAX-WS 2.x, Java 6u14 includes JAX-WS 2.1.6) but it is available for Java 5 as long as you provide it. The odd part is that the jaxws-maven-plugin declare these dependencies (see for example jaxws-maven-plugin-1.12.pom), there must be a classloading issue somewhere, hence the "work around".
The final problem comes when we try and use the compiled stub code with Spring (2.5.6) we're using a JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean to interface with the generated client code. We get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/ws/soap/Addressing. [...]
What version of the plugin are you using exactly? I'd suggest to use the version 1.12 and the same version of jax-ws as in the plugin in your pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-tools</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>