28-Apr-2016
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Joda-Time is a great library if you can't use
Java 8 in your project. If you happen to be using version above
1.2.1.2 with your
web service and deploying to
WebLogic 12c (12.1) you will likely get
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError exceptions. This is how to fix it.
In my case I was getting an exception like this...
Strange I thought because I had
joda-time-2.9.3.jar in my
WEB-INF/lib directory.
It turns out that
WebLogic comes with an old version of
Joda-Time library, in my case it was the
1.2.1.2 version which I found at the following location...
The fix is easy, just force your web service to use the
jar file that you bundle inside the
WEB-INF/lib directory. To do this you need to set
prefer-web-inf-classes to
true in the
weblogic.xml file. Below is an example.
After making this change and redeploying everything should work as expected.
-i
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