java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy. It's not clear what's the reason of the problem from the log ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: WFLY-4409 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4409 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 8.2.0.Final Reporter: Alexandr Sokolov Assignee: Stuart Douglas In the log during the application server startup we see in the log file: {code} 15:10:25,997 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."mms.ear"."webservices.jar".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."mms.ear"."webservices.jar".POST_MODULE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of subdeployment "webservices.jar" of deployment "mms.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [wildfly-server-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:724) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:531) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:355) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation2(AnnotationParser.java:286) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:120) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:72) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at java.lang.Class.createAnnotationData(Class.java:3513) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at java.lang.Class.annotationData(Class.java:3502) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:3407) [rt.jar:1.8.0_25] at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.getRemoteBusinessInterfaces(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:148) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.processViewAnnotations(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:116) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:90) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [wildfly-server-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] ... 5 more ... 15:10:27,315 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (management-handler-thread - 4) JBAS014613: Operation ("deploy") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "mms.ear")]) - failure description: { "JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.subunit.\"mms.ear\".\"webservices.jar\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit.\"mms.ear\".\"webservices.jar\".POST_MODULE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of subdeployment \"webservices.jar\" of deployment \"mms.ear\" Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy"}, "JBAS014771: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => [ "jboss.deployment.unit.\"mms.ear\".weld.weldClassIntrospector is missing [jboss.deployment.unit.\"mms.ear\".beanmanager]", "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.wp.TemplateVariableService.Validator is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.wp.TemplateVariableService]", "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.configuration.GenericDao.InAppClientContainer is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.configuration.GenericDao]", "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.mmsServiceEJB.MMSMagnoliaSSOService.ORB is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.mms.mmsServiceEJB.MMSMagnoliaSSOService]", ... {code} From this output it's not clear what exactly is absent in the ear file. Could you refactor logging for this error. In order to display which exactly annotation was not found.