java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.adf.share.weblogic.listeners.ADFApplicationLifecycleListener
While deploying Oracle ADF application sometimes we may receive the following exceptionweblogic.management.DeploymentException:
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$CreateListenerAction.run(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:184)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$BaseAction.invoke(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:112)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.createListener(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:117)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.createListener(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:103)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.createListeners(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:175)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.prepare(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:281)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:648)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:191)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:59)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:61)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:545)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:256)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:221)
Caused By: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.adf.share.weblogic.listeners.ADFApplicationLifecycleListener
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:297)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:270)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:179)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:249)
at
The issue is due to missing ADF web Run-time libraries in the war file.This can be resolved by adding the ADF web Runtime libraries into the war file.
Steps to resolve the issue
If you are deploying through JDeveloper then follow the below steps.Add the ADF Web Runtime to the project libraries.
Include the ADF Web Runtime library as part of the war.
Project Properties-->Edit the deployment profile.
Select the ADF Web Runtime library as part of WEB-INF/lib contributors.