Fisheye fails to initialize xwork library

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Symptoms

The following appears in the atlassian-fisheye.log:

2013-08-08 10:52:56,735 WARN  [qtp243430682-316725 ] org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler ServletHandler-doHandle - Error for /admin/updateProject.do
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidatorFactory
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidatorFileParser.addValidatorConfigs(ValidatorFileParser.java:157)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidatorFileParser.parseActionValidatorConfigs(ValidatorFileParser.java:98)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.DefaultActionValidatorManager.loadFile(DefaultActionValidatorManager.java:183)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.DefaultActionValidatorManager.buildClassValidatorConfigs(DefaultActionValidatorManager.java:79)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.DefaultActionValidatorManager.buildValidatorConfigs(DefaultActionValidatorManager.java:162)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.DefaultActionValidatorManager.getValidators(DefaultActionValidatorManager.java:59)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.AbstractActionValidatorManager.validate(AbstractActionValidatorManager.java:50)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.AbstractActionValidatorManager.validate(AbstractActionValidatorManager.java:38)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doBeforeInvocation(ValidationInterceptor.java:110)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doIntercept(ValidationInterceptor.java:114)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)

Cause

Xwork is a library which lies inside <FishEye Home Directory>\lib. The path to <FishEye Home Directory> contains blank spaces, and Fisheye fails to load this library. In the message above, the problem is happening while trying to save changes on a Crucible project, but you may be trying to do other things too (e.g., while editing SMTP config or updating JIRA server configuration in Fisheye).

Resolution

  1. Shutdown Fisheye
  2. Move <FishEye Home Directory> to a path that does not contain any blank spaces
  3. Start Fisheye
Last modified on Jul 31, 2018

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