Not generating any bean definitions

[SkylerMime]

I'm working on converting some old projects to Maven and running into some difficulties. I'm getting no build errors in my Eclipse IDE, but when I try running the projects in JBoss I get a Bootloader error about retrofit:

[org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap] (Weld Thread Pool -- 7) WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions
from my.package.util.myClass because of underlying class loading error:
Type retrofit2.converter.gson.GsonConverterFactory from [Module "deployment.my-web-project.war" from Service Module Loader] not found.
If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.

For some context on the build configuration, View Project in the myClass class uses a class from Util Project which depends on retrofit2. In turn, View Project is called from Web Project.

So far I've tried adding the retrofit2 dependencies to View Project and Util Project's Maven poms:

View Project's pom.xml

  <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.retrofit2</groupId>
      <artifactId>retrofit</artifactId>
      <version>${retrofit.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.retrofit2</groupId>
      <artifactId>converter-gson</artifactId>
      <version>${retrofit.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
      <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
      <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
      <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
      <version>${gson.version}</version>
    </dependency>

Util Project's pom.xml

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.retrofit2</groupId>
      <artifactId>converter-gson</artifactId>
      <version>${retrofit.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
      <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
      <version>${gson.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.retrofit2</groupId>
      <artifactId>retrofit</artifactId>
      <version>${retrofit.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
      <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
      <version>${okhttp.version}</version>
    </dependency>

Here are the version properties:

    <okhttp.version>4.12.0</okhttp.version>
    <gson.version>2.11.0</gson.version>
    <retrofit.version>2.3.0</retrofit.version>

Here's the full error the Wildfly log message is referring to:

2025-02-04 08:32:06,874 DEBUG [org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap] (Weld Thread Pool -- 8) Catching: org.jboss.weld.resources.spi.ResourceLoadingException: Error while loading class my.package.util.myClass

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer.getBackedAnnotatedType(ClassTransformer.java:186)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer.getBackedAnnotatedType(ClassTransformer.java:194)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.loadSlimAnnotatedType(FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.java:124)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.createContext(FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.java:114)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.loadAnnotatedType(FastAnnotatedTypeLoader.java:93)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.BeanDeployer.addClass(BeanDeployer.java:87)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ConcurrentBeanDeployer$1.doWork(ConcurrentBeanDeployer.java:55)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.ConcurrentBeanDeployer$1.doWork(ConcurrentBeanDeployer.java:52)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.executor.IterativeWorkerTaskFactory$1.call(IterativeWorkerTaskFactory.java:62)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.executor.IterativeWorkerTaskFactory$1.call(IterativeWorkerTaskFactory.java:55)

	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)

	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)

	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)

	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:513)

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: retrofit2/converter/gson/GsonConverterFactory

	at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)

	at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:3137)

	at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2357)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.SecurityActions.getDeclaredConstructors(SecurityActions.java:57)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType$BackedAnnotatedConstructors.computeValue(BackedAnnotatedType.java:166)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType$BackedAnnotatedConstructors.computeValue(BackedAnnotatedType.java:163)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.LazyValueHolder.get(LazyValueHolder.java:46)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType$EagerlyInitializedLazyValueHolder.<init>(BackedAnnotatedType.java:159)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType$BackedAnnotatedConstructors.<init>(BackedAnnotatedType.java:163)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType$BackedAnnotatedConstructors.<init>(BackedAnnotatedType.java:163)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType.<init>(BackedAnnotatedType.java:64)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.annotated.slim.backed.BackedAnnotatedType.of(BackedAnnotatedType.java:47)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformClassToBackedAnnotatedType.apply(ClassTransformer.java:84)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformClassToBackedAnnotatedType.apply(ClassTransformer.java:79)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.cache.ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.lambda$null$0(ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.java:55)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.WeakLazyValueHolder$1.computeValue(WeakLazyValueHolder.java:35)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.WeakLazyValueHolder.get(WeakLazyValueHolder.java:53)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.cache.ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.getValue(ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.java:72)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.util.cache.ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.getCastValue(ReentrantMapBackedComputingCache.java:78)

	at [email protected]//org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer.getBackedAnnotatedType(ClassTransformer.java:177)

	... 14 more

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: retrofit2.converter.gson.GsonConverterFactory from [Module "deployment.my-web-project.war" from Service Module Loader]

	at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:255)

	at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:410)

	at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398)

	at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:116)

	... 34 more

[JakeWharton]

As far as your dependencies are declared, everything seems fine. That being said, I have no insight into what is going into the .war or what plugin is responsible for packaging all your dependencies into it. It would seem like that step is the problem, as your code would not compile if the dependency wasn't exposed to the Java compiler, so it has to be something going wrong at the packaging step.