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java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: instance exception using yuicompressor to minify JS files

We are in the process of upgrading out application servers from Weblogic 11g running java 1.6 to Weblogic 12c running java 1.8. One of the steps in our ANT build process is to use YUI Compressor (version 2.4.8) to minify our CSS and JS files. The step to minify CSS files works fine. But when we try to minify JS files we get the following error:
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: instance
at org.mozilla.javascript.CompilerEnvirons.<init>(CompilerEnvirons.java:48)
at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.parse(JavaScriptCompressor.java:310)
at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.<init>(JavaScriptCompressor.java:533)
at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressTask.doCompression(YUICompressTask.java:202)
at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressTask.execute(YUICompressTask.java:101)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)
When I looked into the classes inside yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar causing the error I see that line 48 of CompilerEnvirons.java looks like this:
this.errorReporter = DefaultErrorReporter.instance;
But when I checked the class DefaultErrorReporter.java it's empty. The entire class consists of the following:
class
{
}
Java 1.6 didn't seem to care about this but java 1.8 does.
I'm not an expert with this compressor tool by any means so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what might cause this. If I need to provide additional information I'm happy to.
Thanks.

This turned out to be a corrupt JAR file.

BUILD FAILED apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src build.xml

I have both JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME set:
damechen#ubuntu:~/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src$ echo $ANT_HOME
/home/damechen/tmp/damechen/apache-ant-1.9.1
damechen#ubuntu:~/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0.25
damechen#ubuntu:~/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)
I was trying to use ant to build tomcat, but it failed for some reasons related to build.xml.
BUILD FAILED
/home/damechen/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src/build.xml:2396: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/damechen/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src/build.xml:2625: Directory /usr/share/java/tomcat-native-1.1.27 creation was not successful for an unknown reason
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Mkdir.execute(Mkdir.java:70)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.SingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(SingleCheckExecutor.java:38)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.execute(Ant.java:440)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.CallTarget.execute(CallTarget.java:105)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1364)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:851)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Total time: 0 seconds
damechen#ubuntu:~/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-src$
Anyone can kindly give me a hand? Thanks a lot!

As the exceptions says. The built failed while it was trying to create a directory by the name tomcat-native-1.1.27 in /usr/share/java/.
Please give proper rights.

You need to read the build instructions for Apache tomcat:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/tags/TOMCAT_7_0_42/BUILDING.txt
(3.2) Building
The build is controlled by creating a ${tomcat.source}/build.properties
file.
It is recommended to always create the file, because of unfortunate
default value of base.path property. You may start with the following
content for the file:
# ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages -----
# Replace this path with the directory path where dependencies binaries
# should be downloaded
base.path=/home/me/some-place-to-download-to
Configure base.path property by adding it to the
${tomcat.source}/build.properties file.
The base.path property specifies the place where Tomcat dependencies
required by the build are downloaded. It is recommended to place this
directory outside of the source tree, so that you do not waste your
time re-downloading the libraries.
WARNING: The default value of base.path property makes the build script
to download libraries required to build Tomcat to the /usr/share/java
directory. On a typical Linux or MacOX system an ordinary user will not
have access to write to this directory. Even if you do have access to
that directory, it is likely not appropriate for you to write there.
Note the warning at the end.... This is the root cause of your issue.
Analysis
The build file is calling the "download-2" target when it fails:
<target name="extras-commons-logging-prepare"
depends="extras-prepare"
description="Prepare to build web services extras package">
<antcall target="downloadfile-2">
<param name="sourcefile.1" value="${commons-logging-src.loc.1}"/>
<param name="sourcefile.2" value="${commons-logging-src.loc.2}"/>
<param name="destfile" value="${commons-logging-src.tar.gz}"/>
<param name="destdir" value="${commons-logging.home}"/>
</antcall>
..
..
In your build.properties file you have set the value of the commons-logging.home property to a directory path for which you do not have permissions to create a directory namely:
/usr/share/java/...
Digging further I see that default properties file sets this path as follows:
# ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages -----
# Please note this path must be absolute, not relative,
# as it is referenced with different working directory
# contexts by the various build scripts.
base.path=/usr/share/java
#base.path=C:/path/to/the/repository
#base.path=/usr/local
..
..
commons-logging.version=1.1.1
commons-logging.home=${base.path}/commons-logging-${commons-logging.version}

can't build a ant target in TFS location

I have a ant target, xml file in my TFS project folder. the project folder is bound with TFS(Team Foundation Server). My problem is when ever i try to build the project by running the ant target in that TFS bound location it fails. it gives the following failure.
> ria_ant_build.xml:435: Error running C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin\javac.exe compiler
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.DefaultCompilerAdapter.executeExternalCompile(DefaultCompilerAdapter.
java:508)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.JavacExternal.execute(JavacExternal.java:61)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:1153)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:930)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor7.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:811)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin\javac.exe": CreateProcess erro
r=87, The parameter is incorrect
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute$Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Execute.java:862)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:481)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:495)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.DefaultCompilerAdapter.executeExternalCompile(DefaultCompilerAdapter.
java:505)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=87, The parameter is incorrect
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:81)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:30)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)
... 24 more
but when i copy the project to a different location and remove the read only attribute from the folder the ant target runs without any error and I'm getting a deploy-able artifact. but even when i remove the read only attribute from the TFS folder i could not build the ant target.It seems like the problem exist on the TFS location it self. :(
can some one suggest me a method to solve this problem. I have to stay in the TFS location you guys know the reason i assume :)
--
Thanks & Regards,
Rangana

From your question it's hard to figure out what really causes your problem.
Perhabs, your ant call length is too long and even longer than the max command prompt line (that's 8191 characters in the latest versions of Windows). As question Fail to launch application (CreateProcess error=87), can't use shorten classpath workaround says you may consider "to shorten folder names, reduce depth of folder trees, using parameter files, etc".
Try to run ant with the -debug option to see the specific command-line parameters of your build call inside the TFS workspace. In that way you can estimate the total length of the call.

Configuring JAX-WS over SSL through CXF

hey, I am having somewhat related issue only. Recently the external SOAP interface which were generating client for changed to https one. and I had an old code base at hand which was generating the java files through cxf and unsecured, http:// based wsdl. I chnaged the uri and on maven side everything works fine even the test pass. but when i use this jar in the main project of mine I get this:
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getSSLSocketFactory()Ljavax/net/ssl/SSLSocketFactory;
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.DelegateHttpsURLConnection.getSSLSocketFactory(DelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:50)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:172)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:801)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:158)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1049)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:234)
at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010)
at org.apache.cxf.resource.URIResolver.tryFileSystem(URIResolver.java:169)
at org.apache.cxf.resource.URIResolver.resolve(URIResolver.java:119)
at org.apache.cxf.resource.ExtendedURIResolver.resolve(ExtendedURIResolver.java:41)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.TransportURIResolver.resolve(TransportURIResolver.java:134)
at org.apache.cxf.catalog.CatalogWSDLLocator.getBaseInputSource(CatalogWSDLLocator.java:72)
at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.AbstractWrapperWSDLLocator.getBaseInputSource(AbstractWrapperWSDLLocator.java:57)
at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLManagerImpl.loadDefinition(WSDLManagerImpl.java:214)
at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLManagerImpl.getDefinition(WSDLManagerImpl.java:179)
at org.apache.cxf.wsdl11.WSDLServiceFactory.(WSDLServiceFactory.java:91)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.initializePorts(ServiceImpl.java:207)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.(ServiceImpl.java:150)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.spi.ProviderImpl.createServiceDelegate(ProviderImpl.java:63)
at javax.xml.ws.Service.(Service.java:56)
at generated.webservices.com.gbm.sso.ssoclient.AuthenticationServiceInternal.(AuthenticationServiceInternal.java:49)
at com.gbm.caprice.sso.client.CachingSSOClient.init(CachingSSOClient.java:42)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1536)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1477)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 45 more
Can you please help?

Since you're getting a NoSuchMethodError (which is caught/thrown by the compiler), My suggestion is that you are using a version of Java class (in this case, javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection) which doesn't have the following method signature:
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getSSLSocketFactory()
This class can be found in the JRE/lib jsse.jar (as from time of writing, JDK 1.6.0_21). Make sure that your java libraries and your Apache CXF libaries are declared in the java CLASSPATH.
That's what I can help you based on your caused exception.

Fail to install my NetBeans plugin

Playing around with creating a NetBeans plugin but I am making very little progress since the process of installing the module fails. What I am doing is right-clicking on the and choosing the 'Install/Reload in Development IDE' option and it fails with the following exception:
Enabling StandardModule:org.willcodejavaforfood.com jarFile: /Users/Erik/NetBeansProjects/module2/build/cluster/modules/org-willcodejavaforfood-com.jar...
java.io.IOException: Cannot enable StandardModule:org.willcodejavaforfood jarFile: /Users/Erik/NetBeansProjects/module2/build/cluster/modules/org-willcodejavaforfood.jar; problems: [Java > 1.6]
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.deployTestModule(ModuleSystem.java:358)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TestModuleDeployer.deployTestModule(TestModuleDeployer.java:68)
at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.ant.InstallModuleTask.execute(InstallModuleTask.java:77)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor176.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:273)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:499)
at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:151)
Using NetBeans 6.5 and running Java 1.6 on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Apperently this is a NetBeans issue for Mac OS X...
Answer from netbeans forums

If you make a new NetBeans module project and simply run that does it work? (trying to narrow the issue down, and eliminating anything but the absolute basics is a good place to start)

Looks like your target platform is set to JDK 5 but your module is built against JDK 6.