Could not initialize class biz.paluch.logging.RuntimeContainer

[remmelt]

Hi!

I'm facing a problem when deploying to Tomcat (7.0.42).

Both json-simple-1.1.jar and logstash-gelf-1.3.0.jar are in {tomcat home}/endorsed.

When I start tomcat, catalina.out gives a NoClassDefFoundError for RuntimeContainer, see below for stack trace.

Uncommenting "biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.originHost=remmelt" in the logging.properties makes it work.
I do not want to do this because the end result of my tests should be this same configuration running on Glassfish4, where the domain admin server distributes the logging.properties file to all its nodes without the ability to edit it per node.

I've copied the RuntimeContainer class to a hello world war, included it in a simple servlet and called log.debug(RuntimeContainer.FQDN_HOSTNAME);
This works well and outputs my machine's hostname.

I'm running OSX 10.9.2.

conf/logging.properties:

#handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

#.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
handlers = biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

.handlers = biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
.level = INFO

biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.host=udp:localhost
#biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.originHost=remmelt
biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.port=12201
biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.level=INFO

com.remmelt.level=FINEST

# ... snip ... rest of the file is standard as packaged with tomcat

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class biz.paluch.logging.RuntimeContainer
    at biz.paluch.logging.gelf.GelfMessageAssembler.getOriginHost(GelfMessageAssembler.java:201)
    at biz.paluch.logging.gelf.GelfMessageAssembler.getValues(GelfMessageAssembler.java:141)
    at biz.paluch.logging.gelf.GelfMessageAssembler.createGelfMessage(GelfMessageAssembler.java:89)
    at biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.createGelfMessage(GelfLogHandler.java:129)
    at biz.paluch.logging.gelf.jul.GelfLogHandler.publish(GelfLogHandler.java:102)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:610)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:631)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:831)
    at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:185)
    at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:151)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1281)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:509)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:182)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1342)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2770)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:606)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:848)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:617)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:665)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:281)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:455)

[mp911de]

RuntimeContainer contains a log4j dependency for logging failures. That's what's failing. I will submit a release a patch to mvn central.

[mp911de]

I've fixed the bug. Do you want to give it a test? Use the attached jar from https://github.com/mp911de/logstash-gelf/releases/tag/logstash-gelf-1.3.1

After your OK I'll push the binaries to maven central.

[remmelt]

Perfect! This solves the problem. Thank you for the quick reply!

[mp911de]

Released to maven central, should be visible in a couple of hours.