pcfdev 0.18.0: Fails to run a Spring Boot 1.4.0 app

[rnadler]

See log below. The same Java 1.8 app runs fine with SB 1.3.6 and 1.3.7.

2016-08-31T16:22:11.797-07:00 [CELL] [OUT] Creating container
2016-08-31T16:22:12.015-07:00 [CELL] [OUT] Successfully created container
2016-08-31T16:22:16.594-07:00 [CELL] [OUT] Starting health monitoring of container
2016-08-31T16:22:17.540-07:00 [APP] [ERR] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:48)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:87)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:401)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:392)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:50)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher.main(JarLauncher.java:58)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot instantiate interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextInitializer : org.cloudfoundry.reconfiguration.spring.CloudPropertySourceApplicationContextInitializer
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:422)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.initialize(SpringApplication.java:261)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] ... 8 more
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/context/ApplicationContextInitializer
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.(SpringApplication.java:237)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1185)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1174)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at io.pivotal.ConfigServerApplication.main(ConfigServerApplication.java:12)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader.loadClass(LaunchedURLClassLoader.java:89)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:250)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:414)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] ... 15 more
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextInitializer
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
2016-08-31T16:22:17.541-07:00 [APP] [ERR] ... 31 more
2016-08-31T16:22:17.567-07:00 [APP] [OUT] Exit status 1

[andifalk]

Spring boot 1.4.0 changed the launcher mechanism which is not compatible any more with older java buildpacks.
To fix this you have to use a more recent java buildpack than the default one in PCFDev.
At least buildpack 3.7 is required.
You may specify the buildpack directly in your manifest (for example version 3.8.1):
buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack.git#v3.8.1

[rnadler]

Yep, that fixed it. Thanks!

[manojpatil1]

Thanks, It is really helpful info