# Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch/common/xcontent/DeprecationHandler **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 22, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553 "2018-09-22T14:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pankaj\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pankaj_sharma/32/35774_2.png) [@Pankaj\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pankaj_Sharma)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553/1 "2018-09-22T14:52:25Z")
Hi, I am building a very basic spring app using java elasticsearch high level client. I have following elastic search dependency in build.gradle. `compile 'org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client:6.4.1'` `elastic search cluster version: 6.4.0` On server startup I am getting following exception. I think this is happening because rest client dependency in maven is of type 'pom'. Am I missing any any other dependencies? Thanks in advance for the help. ``` Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient]: Factory method 'client' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch/common/xcontent/DeprecationHandler at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:185) ~[spring-beans-5.0.7.RELEASE.jar:5.0.7.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:582) ~[spring-beans-5.0.7.RELEASE.jar:5.0.7.RELEASE] ... 46 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch/common/xcontent/DeprecationHandler at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:338) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.(RestHighLevelClient.java:1429) ~[elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.1.jar:5.6.10] at com.alef.audittrail.persistence.SpringConfig.client(SpringConfig.java:22) ~[classes/:na] at com.alef.audittrail.persistence.SpringConfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$2e6a8f2.CGLIB$client$0() ~[classes/:na] at com.alef.audittrail.persistence.SpringConfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$2e6a8f2$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$9eed9939.invoke() ~[classes/:na] at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:228) ~[spring-core-5.0.7.RELEASE.jar:5.0.7.RELEASE] at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer$BeanMethodInterceptor.intercept(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:361) ~[spring-context-5.0.7.RELEASE.jar:5.0.7.RELEASE] at com.alef.audittrail.persistence.SpringConfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$2e6a8f2.client() ~[classes/:na] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:154) ~[spring-beans-5.0.7.RELEASE.jar:5.0.7.RELEASE] ... 47 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.DeprecationHandler at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:338) ~[na:1.8.0_152] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ~[na:1.8.0_152] ... 71 common frames omitted ``` In gradle dependecies tree I can see following dependencies ``` +--- org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client:6.4.1 | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:6.4.1 | | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-core:6.4.1 | | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-secure-sm:6.4.1 | | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-x-content:6.4.1 | | | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-core:6.4.1 | | | +--- org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.17 -> 1.19 | | | +--- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.8.10 -> 2.9.6 | | | +--- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-smile:2.8.10 -> 2.9.6 | | | +--- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml:2.8.10 -> 2.9.6 | | | \--- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:2.8.10 -> 2.9.6 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-core:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-common:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-backward-codecs:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-grouping:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-highlighter:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-join:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-memory:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-misc:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-queries:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-queryparser:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-sandbox:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial-extras:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial3d:7.4.0 | | +--- org.apache.lucene:lucene-suggest:7.4.0 | | +--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-cli:6.4.1 | | | +--- net.sf.jopt-simple:jopt-simple:5.0.2 | | | \--- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-core:6.4.1 | | +--- com.carrotsearch:hppc:0.7.1 | | +--- joda-time:joda-time:2.10 -> 2.9.9 | | +--- com.tdunning:t-digest:3.2 | | +--- org.hdrhistogram:HdrHistogram:2.1.9 | | +--- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.11.1 -> 2.10.0 | | \--- org.elasticsearch:jna:4.5.1 | +--- org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client:6.4.1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![baz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baz/32/5183_2.png) [@baz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baz)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553/2 "2018-09-26T22:48:05Z")
Yeesh, this is nasty. Thank you for the report. You can work around it for now by manually specifying that dependency (and possibly others). Please see [this](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch-x-content) for detailed information about the maven repository so you can add it. Ill happily add a bug report to our github, unless you would like to. ---
**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553/3 "2018-09-27T06:08:04Z")
I investigated this issue and it is only present in 6.4. The 6.5.0 release will fix the pom to be jar packaging again. ---
**Author:** ![Pankaj\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pankaj_sharma/32/35774_2.png) [@Pankaj\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pankaj_Sharma)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553/4 "2018-09-27T07:09:06Z")
Ok. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/caused-by-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-elasticsearch-common-xcontent-deprecationhandler/149553/5 "2018-10-25T07:09:06Z")
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