java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy in JBoss EAP 6.x

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.2.x

Issue

• We are trying to our application JBoss EAP 5.1.0 to JBoss EAP 6.2.0 and getting the error below:

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-5) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "example.war"
       at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
       at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
       at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:673) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:480) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:306) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:241) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:88) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3168) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:3127) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.isAnnotationPresent(Class.java:3140) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor.deploy(ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor.java:134)
       at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
       ... 5 more

Resolution

Make sure all classes referenced are in the classpath

Diagnostic Steps

Look for annotations used in the application and verify any classes mentioned as arguments passed into the annotation exist in the classpath for the application.

@ExampleAnnotation({MyTest.class})

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