> It's great to make projects aware that they are depending on APIs that are > long deprecated >
I gave Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1 a spin on 21-internal with Identity and friends removed. This version of WLS supports Java EE 8. Accessing an EJB with an injected EJBContext somewhat predictably fails with a NoClassDefFoundError / ClassNotFoundException: Root cause of ServletException. > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/security/Identity > at > weblogic.ejb.container.manager.StatefulSessionManager.allocateContext(StatefulSessionManager.java:947) > [..] > Caused By: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.security.Identity > at > java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641) I believe this NoClassDefFoundError has an easily fix, which is to move any BaseEJBContext code touching java/security/Identity out of the BaseEJBContext class, such that any class loading of java/security/Identity is deferred until any of the deprecated methods are actually called. This fix would allow apps not calling the deprecated methods to deploy as usual in WLS using a JDK with these classes removed. If anyone knows how to get in touch with relevant people in the WebLogic organization to discuss this, please let me know in a private email. Eirik.
