NoClassDefFoundError: io/micronaut/context/AbstractInitializableBeanDefinitionAndReference

[ethanhere]

Hi, we have a project that uses micronaut-core 4.3.10 (bom/release version 4.3.5) that builds and works fine.

I am trying to update it to latest release (bom version 4.4.1 / micronaut-core 4.4.6), when building our project, I got the following error:
[INFO] Compiling 3 source files with javac [forked debug deprecation target 21] to target/classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/micronaut/context/AbstractInitializableBeanDefinitionAndReference
at io.micronaut.inject.writer.BeanDefinitionWriter.(BeanDefinitionWriter.java:362)
at io.micronaut.annotation.processing.BeanDefinitionInjectProcessor.process(BeanDefinitionInjectProcessor.java:240)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.callProcessor(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1021)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$DiscoveredProcessors$ProcessorStateIterator.runContributingProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:857)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1263)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1402)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1272)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:946)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:319)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:178)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:64)
at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:50)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: io.micronaut.context.AbstractInitializableBeanDefinitionAndReference
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:445)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:593)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:526)
... 12 more

io.micronaut.context.AbstractInitializableBeanDefinitionAndReference is a new class added to micronaut-core project that 4.3.10 doesn't have it.

How to fix it?

I checked #10765, and found that my pom has

io.micronaut
micronaut-inject

I also add

io.micronaut
micronaut-inject-java

To annotation processor, but still the same error.

[graemerocher]

can you check your pom for hard coded versions you should have none

[ethanhere]

I resolved the problem by updating all micronaut components to current latest version in artifactory. I think the error was caused by the compiler links to micronaut-core 4.3. That's probably an bug in maven as my pom clearly reference micronaut-core 4.4.6. maven should have reference to pom's direct reference but not indirect reference of other dependency.