FactoryFinderCache failed to read implementation when comments present ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBEE-251 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEE-251 Project: JBoss Enterprise Spec APIs Issue Type: Bug Components: jboss-el-api Reporter: Alexey Markevich Assignee: Scott Marlow Priority: Major Since Tomcat 9.0.31 [1] introduced ServiceLoader entry to META-INF for EL [2] following exception occurred [3]. The same for 'jakarta.el:jakarta.el-api:3.0.3' and its FactoryFinder. 1. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html 2. https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/9.0.31/res/META-INF/jasper-el.jar/s... 3. Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Tomcat].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.handleSubClassException(LifecycleBase.java:440) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1384) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1374) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75) at java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:134) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:909) ... 40 more Caused by: javax.el.ELException: Provider # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more not found at javax.el.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:64) at javax.el.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:103) at javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance(ExpressionFactory.java:140) at javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance(ExpressionFactory.java:110) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl.<init>(JspApplicationContextImpl.java:49) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl.getInstance(JspApplicationContextImpl.java:78) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getJspApplicationContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:217) at org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.WeldServletLifecycle.initialize(WeldServletLifecycle.java:219) at org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.EnhancedListener.onStartup(EnhancedListener.java:62) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5135) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:183) ... 46 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1365) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1188) at javax.el.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:48) ... 56 more