Application deployment fails with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/enterprise/inject/Any$Literal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-10062 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-10062 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: CDI / Weld Affects Versions: 12.0.0.Final Reporter: Rich DiCroce Assignee: Martin Kouba Application fails to deploy with the below stack trace. EE8 preview mode is NOT enabled, which appears to be the cause. cdi-api-2.0.jar contains the class, but cdi-api-1.2.jar does not. {quote} 10:27:34,790 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-3) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."song-gaming-portal.war".WeldStartService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."song-gaming-portal.war".WeldStartService: Failed to start service at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.execute(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1706) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ControllerTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1540) at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1985) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1487) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1378) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [rt.jar:1.8.0_162] Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/enterprise/inject/Any$Literal at org.jboss.weld.util.Observers.isContainerLifecycleObserverMethod(Observers.java:102) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ExtensionBeanDeployer.createObserverMethod(ExtensionBeanDeployer.java:151) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ExtensionBeanDeployer.createObserverMethods(ExtensionBeanDeployer.java:140) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ExtensionBeanDeployer.deployBean(ExtensionBeanDeployer.java:101) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ExtensionBeanDeployer.deployBeans(ExtensionBeanDeployer.java:75) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup.startInitialization(WeldStartup.java:377) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.startInitialization(WeldBootstrap.java:76) [weld-core-impl-3.0.3.Final.jar:3.0.3.Final] at org.jboss.as.weld.WeldStartService.start(WeldStartService.java:95) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1714) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.execute(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1693) ... 6 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.enterprise.inject.Any$Literal from [Module "org.jboss.weld.core" from local module loader @2ea6137 (finder: local module finder @41ee392b (roots: D:\wildfly\wildfly-12.0.0.Final-GP\modules,D:\wildfly\wildfly-12.0.0.Final-GP\modules\system\layers\base))] at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:199) [jboss-modules.jar:1.7.0.Final] at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:412) [jboss-modules.jar:1.7.0.Final] at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:400) [jboss-modules.jar:1.7.0.Final] at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:116) [jboss-modules.jar:1.7.0.Final] ... 16 more {quote}