Getting exception Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError AnnotationRepositoryConfigurationSource.<init> - docker

Question

I am getting below exception when I start my spring boot war file in a docker container. Strange thing is, same war file works absolutely fine when I deploy it in my windows tomcat as well as a linux tomcat. It is only failing when I launch it in docker container. Below are details.
Exception stack
08-Oct-2018 14:28:48.559 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal ContainerBase.addChild: start:
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/MySpringBootApp]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:167)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:986)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1857)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.data.repository.config.AnnotationRepositoryConfigurationSource.<init>(Lorg/springframework/core/type/AnnotationMetadata;Ljava/lang/Class;Lorg/springframework/core/io/ResourceLoader;Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment;)V
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport$1.<init>(AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.java:67)
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.getConfigurationSource(AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.java:66)
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.registerBeanDefinitions(AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.java:58)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitionsFromRegistrars(ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.java:352)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitionsForConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.java:116)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:333)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:243)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:273)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:98)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:678)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:520)
at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:766)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createAndRefreshContext(SpringApplication.java:361)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:307)
at org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer.run(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:149)
at org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer.createRootApplicationContext(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:129)
at org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer.onStartup(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:85)
at org.springframework.web.SpringServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(SpringServletContainerInitializer.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5204)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 10 more
08-Oct-2018 14:28:48.566 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Error deploying web application archive [/app/apache-tomcat-8.5.29/webapps/MySpringBootApp.war]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/MySpringBootApp]]
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:758)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:986)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1857)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
[Loaded java.text.FieldPosition$Delegate from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/rt.jar]
08-Oct-2018 14:28:48.567 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Deployment of web application archive [/app/apache-tomcat-8.5.29/webapps/MySpringBootApp.war] has finished in [32,467] ms
08-Oct-2018 14:28:48.569 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory [/app/apache-tomcat-8.5.29/webapps/ROOT]
Below is docker image I have used with various other parent images.
### OpenJDK image
#FROM openjdk:8u181-jdk
#FROM java:8-jre-alpine
#FROM lwieske/java-8:jdk-8u181-slim
FROM lwieske/java-8:jdk-8u152-slim
### Set up app directory structure
WORKDIR /app/rgx/
### Copy class file
COPY . /app/
### Application listening on this port
EXPOSE 9186
### Define environment variable
ENV NAME MyApp
ENV CATALINA_HOME /app/apache-tomcat-8.5.29
ENV PATH $CATALINA_HOME/bin:$PATH
ENV JRE_HOME=$JAVA_HOME/jre
### Run app
CMD [ "catalina.sh", "run" ]
Also, dependencies in pom.xml file as below (Not an entire file).
<properties>
<springboot.version>1.4.6.RELEASE</springboot.version>
<swagger.version>2.4.0</swagger.version>
<tomcat.version>8.0.3</tomcat.version>
<sonar.java.coveragePlugin>jacoco</sonar.java.coveragePlugin>
<sonar.jacoco.reportPath>${basedir}/target/jacoco.exec</sonar.jacoco.reportPath>
<sonar.junit.reportsPath>${basedir}/target/surefire-reports</sonar.junit.reportsPath>
<sonar.language>java</sonar.language>
<spring.data.commons.version>1.12.1.RELEASE</spring.data.commons.version>
<spring.data.commons.core.version>1.4.1.RELEASE</spring.data.commons.core.version>
<spring.data.jpa.version>1.10.2.RELEASE</spring.data.jpa.version>
<spring.boot.starter.test.version>1.4.0.RELEASE</spring.boot.starter.test.version>
<google.gson.version>2.6.2</google.gson.version>
<apache.commons.io.version>1.3.2</apache.commons.io.version>
<google.guava.version>19.0</google.guava.version>
<harmcrest.version>1.3</harmcrest.version>
<jacoco.version>0.7.4.201502262128</jacoco.version>
<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
<spring.test.version>4.1.6.RELEASE</spring.test.version>
<apache.commons.lang3.version>3.0</apache.commons.lang3.version>
<ojdbc6.version>11.2.0.2</ojdbc6.version>
<xalan.version>2.7.1</xalan.version>
<xercesImpl.version>2.9.1</xercesImpl.version>
<fop-patch-46319.version>0.93</fop-patch-46319.version>
<itextpdf.version>7.0.5</itextpdf.version>
<bcprov-jdk15.version>1.44</bcprov-jdk15.version>
<bctsp-jdk15.version>1.44</bctsp-jdk15.version>
<commons-lang.version>2.4</commons-lang.version>
<bcmail-jdk15.version>1.44</bcmail-jdk15.version>
<sonar-maven-plugin.version>3.7</sonar-maven-plugin.version>
</properties>
..
..
..
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>${springboot.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<version>${springboot.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>${springboot.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-commons</artifactId>
<version>${spring.data.commons.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-commons-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.data.commons.core.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.starter.test.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.data/spring-data-jpa -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>${spring.data.jpa.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
<version>${springboot.version}</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
<version>${springboot.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
<version>${google.gson.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>${apache.commons.io.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>${google.guava.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hamcrest/hamcrest-all -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
<artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
<version>${harmcrest.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jacoco/jacoco-maven-plugin -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.test.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>${apache.commons.lang3.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>${ojdbc6.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xalan</groupId>
<artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
<version>${xalan.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
<version>${xercesImpl.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
<artifactId>fop-patch-46319</artifactId>
<version>${fop-patch-46319.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itext7-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itext7-core</artifactId>
<version>${itextpdf.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bcprov-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcmail-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bcmail-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bctsp-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bctsp-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>${commons-lang.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<version>1.4.193</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
<artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
<version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.16.16</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-jdbc -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>1.3.5.RELEASE</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
I have tried to upgrade spring boot version from 1.3.5.RELEASE to higher version. But that makes me run into either build errors or ClassNotFound exception which I see on my windows laptop as well. Hence I am ruling out those as an option.
Kindly help.

Answer 1

For starters your dependencies are a mess. You hav so many overrides for the versions that a mix of versions of the same framework is inevitable. You are working around/against the framework instead of using it.
Judging from the way your dependencies are structured you aren't using the spring-boot-starter-parent as the <parent> of your pom.xml. So instead you should have a <dependencyManagement> block and import the spring-boot-dependencies dependency (See using maven without a parent).
So add the following to your pom.xml(assuming that the spring.boot.version is the actual Spring Boot version you want to use, 1.4.6.RELEASE).
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<!-- Import dependency management from Spring Boot -->
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>1.4.6.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Then cleanup your dependencies by removing all the version elements and removing the spring-boot-starter-parent as dependency.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>${apache.commons.io.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>${google.guava.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jacoco/jacoco-maven-plugin -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>${swagger.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>${commons.lang.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>${ojdbc6.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xalan</groupId>
<artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
<version>${xalan.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
<version>${xercesImpl.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
<artifactId>fop-patch-46319</artifactId>
<version>${fop-patch-46319.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itext7-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itext7-core</artifactId>
<version>${itextpdf.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bcprov-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcmail-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bcmail-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bctsp-jdk15</artifactId>
<version>${bctsp-jdk15.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>${commons-lang.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
<artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
Remove the org.springframework.data dependencies, as those are included in the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa. The same applies to the hamcrest-all and Junit dependencies those are included in the spring-boot-starter-test dependencies. Spring Boot will also manage the version of lombok,HikariCP` and others.
Remove the unneeded properties from the <properties> section to clean up things. If you want to upgrade to a newer Spring Boot version the only thing you need to do is upgrade the version in the dependencyManagement section to get new versions of all related frameworks.