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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.adf.share.weblogic.listeners.ADFApplicationLifecycleListener

While deploying Oracle ADF application sometimes we may receive the following exception

weblogic.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.