[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4280?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Juan Hernández commented on WFLY-4280: -------------------------------------- What I did to reproduce this is building the example application and trying to manually deploy it, something like this: {noformat} cd hv-861 mvn clean package cp target/hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar /whatever/wildfly-8.2.0.Final/standalone/deployments/. cd /whatever/wildfly-8.2.0.Final/bin ./standalone.sh {noformat} The result is this error message in the standard output: {noformat} 10:16:32,198 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-7) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar".WeldStartService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar".WeldStartService: Failed to start service at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1904) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DefinitionException: Exception List with 1 exceptions: Exception 0 : java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.ExecutableHelper.instanceMethodParametersResolveToSameTypes(ExecutableHelper.java:141) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.ExecutableHelper.overrides(ExecutableHelper.java:101) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.replaceWithOverriddenOrInterfaceMethod(ValidationExtension.java:425) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.determineConstrainedMethod(ValidationExtension.java:275) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.determineConstrainedCallables(ValidationExtension.java:262) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.processAnnotatedType(ValidationExtension.java:242) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:90) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:271) at org.jboss.weld.event.ExtensionObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ExtensionObserverMethodImpl.java:121) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:258) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:237) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:197) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:169) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.processAnnotatedTypes(BeanDeployer.java:158) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployment.createTypes(BeanDeployment.java:230) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup.startInitialization(WeldStartup.java:373) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.startInitialization(WeldBootstrap.java:76) at org.jboss.as.weld.WeldStartService.start(WeldStartService.java:91) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:204) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:169) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.processAnnotatedTypes(BeanDeployer.java:158) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployment.createTypes(BeanDeployment.java:230) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup.startInitialization(WeldStartup.java:373) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.startInitialization(WeldBootstrap.java:76) at org.jboss.as.weld.WeldStartService.start(WeldStartService.java:91) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$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] ... 3 more 10:16:32,203 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014613: Operation ("deploy") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar")]) - failure description: {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar\".WeldStartService" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"hv-861-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar\".WeldStartService: Failed to start service Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DefinitionException: Exception List with 1 exceptions: Exception 0 : java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.ExecutableHelper.instanceMethodParametersResolveToSameTypes(ExecutableHelper.java:141) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.ExecutableHelper.overrides(ExecutableHelper.java:101) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.replaceWithOverriddenOrInterfaceMethod(ValidationExtension.java:425) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.determineConstrainedMethod(ValidationExtension.java:275) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.determineConstrainedCallables(ValidationExtension.java:262) at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.processAnnotatedType(ValidationExtension.java:242) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:90) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:271) at org.jboss.weld.event.ExtensionObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ExtensionObserverMethodImpl.java:121) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:258) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:237) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:197) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.events.ContainerLifecycleEvents.fireProcessAnnotatedType(ContainerLifecycleEvents.java:169) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.processAnnotatedTypes(BeanDeployer.java:158) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployment.createTypes(BeanDeployment.java:230) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup.startInitialization(WeldStartup.java:373) at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.startInitialization(WeldBootstrap.java:76) at org.jboss.as.weld.WeldStartService.start(WeldStartService.java:91) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) "}} {noformat} The annotation isn't relevant, as long as it triggers the call to {{org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.ValidationExtension.processAnnotatedType}}. If you prefer you can replace {{@Valid}} with {{@NotNull}}, or any constraint, the result is the same. I tested this with OpenJDK 7 and OpenJDK 8. I tested it with WildFly 8.2.0.Final "Tweek": {noformat} 10:26:36,546 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS015899: WildFly 8.2.0.Final "Tweek" starting {noformat} Previously I tested it with 8.1.0 as well, and the result is the same. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.11#6341)