Getting exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl

Question

Getting the following exception , while implementing Jwt Spring Security implementation :

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl .

in a Spring Boot project

The dependencies in pom.xml are as following :

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <!-- For Working with Json Web Tokens (JWT) -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
        <artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
        <version>0.9.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- marked the embedded servlet container as provided -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
        <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- hot swapping, disable cache for template, enable live reload -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    
    <!-- Optional, for bootstrap -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
        <artifactId>bootstrap</artifactId>
        <version>3.3.7</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
        <artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
        <scope>compile</scope>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>
    
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
        <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.modelmapper</groupId>
        <artifactId>modelmapper</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jersey</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
        <version>1.8</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
        <version>3.7</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.json</groupId>
        <artifactId>json</artifactId>
        <version>20180813</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

The detailed bootstrap is as following :

Handler dispatch failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl
] with root cause
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl
    at javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.initConverter(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary(Unknown Source)
    at io.jsonwebtoken.impl.Base64Codec.decode(Base64Codec.java:26)
    at io.jsonwebtoken.impl.DefaultJwtBuilder.signWith(DefaultJwtBuilder.java:99)
    at com.mpcz.services.jwt.security.JwtTokenUtil.generateToken(JwtTokenUtil.java:92)
    at com.mpcz.services.jwt.security.JwtTokenUtil.generateToken(JwtTokenUtil.java:85)
    at com.mpcz.services.controller.ConsumerLoginController.register(ConsumerLoginController.java:183)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

Getting the above mentioned error while generating JWT token at below mentioned code :

Jwts.builder().setClaims(claims).setExpiration(generateExpirationDate()).signWith(SignatureAlgorithm.HS512, secret).compact();

I found solution for the above problem : Add the following in pom.xml — Giggs, Apr 11 '19 at 05:32
Also downloaded Xercesxml 2.12.0 version and added to pom.xml — Giggs, Apr 11 '19 at 09:07
You should add a clean response and accept it. This is the only place I found this (perfectly working) solution, thank you. — Nicolas Barlogis, Dec 20 '19 at 16:17
https://stackoverflow.com/a/75691813/12349305 Answer if you use springboot 3 — Ballo Ibrahima, Mar 10 '23 at 02:46

score 29 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '20 at 10:46

For future reference, the solution was adding the following dependency in order to avoid the java 11 issue:

For Maven projects:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId> 
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
</dependency>

For gradle projects:

compile 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.1'

Credits to @Giggs

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '21 at 06:01

6

Adding JAXB API dependency solved my issue.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.xml.bind/jaxb-api -->

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version>
</dependency>

answered Jan 03 '21 at 06:01

User

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 22 '21 at 22:56

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Adding this dependency to the pom file worked for me :

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$-->
</dependency>

answered Jun 22 '21 at 22:56

Mouad Tahir

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 28 '20 at 20:21

That also worked just fine for me while using OpenJDK 11. w/o any code modification.

I am using java.base.* enc/dec on my fronted class instead of javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter, but jjwt (0.9.0) brings it back in when generating the token.

your solution is good, did not have to add the Xercesxml to my pom.xml, probably because I was only doing basic jwt.

Regards,

Dezman!

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 17 '21 at 04:00

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Yes, For me adding javax api dependency fixed my bug.

compile 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.1'

Thanks @Andrei

answered Feb 17 '21 at 04:00

Sebastian Mendez

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Getting exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl

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