Good evening,

According to Flink's documentation I have excluded the Flink runtime library 
from the runtime dependencies of my project:

dependencies {
    compileOnly     group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 'flink-core',             
         version: '1.4.2'
    compileOnly     group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 'flink-java',             
         version: '1.4.2'
    compileOnly     group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 
'flink-streaming-java_2.11',       version: '1.4.2'
    implementation  group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 
'flink-connector-kafka-0.11_2.11', version: '1.4.2'
    ...
}

Unfortunately I get the following error:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: interface 
akka.serialization.Serializer is not assignable from class 
akka.remote.serialization.MiscMessageSerializer
     at 
akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess$$anonfun$getClassFor$1.apply(ReflectiveDynamicAccess.scala:23)
     at 
akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess$$anonfun$getClassFor$1.apply(ReflectiveDynamicAccess.scala:20)
     at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:192)
     at 
akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess.getClassFor(ReflectiveDynamicAccess.scala:20)
     at 
akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess.createInstanceFor(ReflectiveDynamicAccess.scala:38)
     at akka.serialization.Serialization.serializerOf(Serialization.scala:301)
     at 
akka.serialization.Serialization$$anonfun$6.apply(Serialization.scala:327)
     at 
akka.serialization.Serialization$$anonfun$6.apply(Serialization.scala:327)
     at 
scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$map$2.apply(TraversableLike.scala:683)
     at scala.collection.immutable.HashMap$HashMap1.foreach(HashMap.scala:221)
     at 
scala.collection.immutable.HashMap$HashTrieMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:428)
     at 
scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.map(TraversableLike.scala:682)
     at akka.serialization.Serialization.<init>(Serialization.scala:327)
     at 
akka.serialization.SerializationExtension$.createExtension(SerializationExtension.scala:15)
     at 
akka.serialization.SerializationExtension$.createExtension(SerializationExtension.scala:12)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.registerExtension(ActorSystem.scala:913)
     at 
akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl$$anonfun$loadExtensions$1$1.apply(ActorSystem.scala:946)
     at 
akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl$$anonfun$loadExtensions$1$1.apply(ActorSystem.scala:944)
     at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:891)
     at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1334)
     at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72)
     at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.loadExtensions$1(ActorSystem.scala:944)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.loadExtensions(ActorSystem.scala:961)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.liftedTree2$1(ActorSystem.scala:833)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl._start$lzycompute(ActorSystem.scala:823)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl._start(ActorSystem.scala:823)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.start(ActorSystem.scala:842)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:246)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:289)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:234)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:225)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.create(ActorSystem.scala:160)
     at akka.actor.ActorSystem.create(ActorSystem.scala)
     at 
de.eso.swarm.rest.client.akka.AkkaRestClient.<clinit>(AkkaRestClient.java:43)
     ... 12 more

My application needs to initialize the AKKA ActorSystem because it uses an HTTP 
client that I have developed using akka-http and akka-stream. Here are the 
dependencies of my HTTP client:

dependencies {
    compile     project(':platform-sdk-java-core')
    testCompile project(':platform-sdk-java-testing')

    implementation group: 'com.typesafe.akka',     name: 'akka-http_2.11',      
version: '10.1.2'
    implementation group: 'com.typesafe.akka',     name: 'akka-stream_2.11',    
version: '2.5.11'

    implementation group: 'com.google.code.gson',  name: 'gson',                
version: '2.8.4'
    implementation group: 'com.google.protobuf',   name: 'protobuf-java',       
version: '3.5.1'

    testImplementation group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
}

On the other hand, when I add the flink runtime to my runtime dependencies, 
everything works:

dependencies {
    implementation  group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 'flink-core',             
            version: '1.4.2'
    implementation  group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 'flink-java',             
            version: '1.4.2'
    implementation  group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 
'flink-streaming-java_2.11',          version: '1.4.2'
    implementation  group: 'org.apache.flink',  name: 
'flink-connector-kafka-0.11_2.11',    version: '1.4.2'
}

Relocation of AKKA did not solve the problem, because AKKA did no longer find 
its serialization classes.
Using an older version of akka http and akka streams is also not an option, 
because the client won't compile in that case.

Are the any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

Martin

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