[DIRSERVER-2326] LDAP server doesn't start on IBM JDK 8 (NoClassDefFound)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0.AM26
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0.AM27
• Component/s: core
• Environment: IBM Java 8
• Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
• Reporter: Josef Cacek
• Created: 07/Sep/20 15:18
• Updated: 25/Oct/23 04:56
• Resolved: 13/Oct/20 05:11

Description

The LDAP server won't start on IBM JDK version 8 due to changes in Directory Server AM26. The org.apache.directory.server.core.security.CertificateUtil newly used to load keystore imports internal sun.security.x509 package classes. These classes are not available on IBM JDK 8.

Stacktrace

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun.security.x509.GeneralNameInterface
	at org.apache.directory.server.ldap.LdapServer.start(LdapServer.java:421)
	at org.apache.directory.server.factory.ServerAnnotationProcessor.createLdapServer(ServerAnnotationProcessor.java:328)
	at org.apache.directory.server.factory.ServerAnnotationProcessor.createLdapServer(ServerAnnotationProcessor.java:351)
	at org.apache.directory.server.core.integ.CreateLdapServerRule$2.evaluate(CreateLdapServerRule.java:112)
	at org.apache.directory.server.core.integ.CreateDsRule$2.evaluate(CreateDsRule.java:124)
	at org.junit.rules.RunRules.evaluate(RunRules.java:20)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
	at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:128)
	at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:27)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:55)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.createRequestAndRun(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:137)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.executeEager(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:107)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.execute(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:83)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.execute(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:75)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider.invoke(JUnitCoreProvider.java:158)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:383)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:344)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.execute(ForkedBooter.java:125)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:417)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.security.x509.GeneralNameInterface
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:610)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassHelper(ClassLoader.java:944)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:889)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:872)
	... 25 more

Issue Links

• fixes: DIRSERVER-2385 ApacheDS cannot run on Java21
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #40
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #41