[AXIS2-6050] Latest Axis2 1.8.2 release not compatible with Glassfish6/J2EE9

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Integration, kernel
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: k
• Created: 08/Dec/22 15:46
• Updated: 26/Oct/24 12:20
• Resolved: 26/Oct/24 12:20

Description

We have several web services based on Axis2 engine deployed as wars in Tomcat. 

Currently, we deploy in Tomcat 9.x with dependencies to Glassfish5 / J2EE8 /JDK8. 

We're looking to upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.x+ / JDK17 / Glassfish6 / J2EE9.

I did a quick test today on this target platform and got the following at runtime (compilation carries out successfully):

08-Dec-2022 14:13:54.897 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Error configuring application listener of class [summit.axis2.servlet.ContextListener]
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContextListener
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:1012)

The issue seems to be that Axis2 is not compatible with Glassfish6/J2EE9. Is there a plan for this in Axis2 roadmap?

PS: The Axis2 generated stubs work fine under the described target platform.