how to deploy war compiled in java 1.8 in jboss 7

Question

I have upgraded my web application which was earlier in java 1.7 to java 1.8. However when I try to deploy its war in jboss 7 , I get following exception.

[jbossweb-7.0.13.Final.jar:]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3850) [jbossweb-7.0.13.Final.jar:]
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:90) [jboss-as-web-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]

18:49:41,659 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/nlp_Server]] (MSC service thread 1-8) Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s)
18:49:41,659 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext] (MSC service thread 1-8) Error listenerStart
18:49:41,659 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext] (MSC service thread 1-8) Context [/nlp_Server] startup failed due to previous errors
18:49:41,675 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: JBAS018040: Failed to start context
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:95)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]

18:49:41,675 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
18:49:41,675 ERROR [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS015875: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" started (with errors) in 4540ms - Started 213 of 294 services (2 services failed or missing dependencies, 78 services are passive or on-demand)
18:49:41,909 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "nlp_Server.war" was rolled back with failure message {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: JBAS018040: Failed to start context"}}
18:49:41,924 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) JBAS015871: Deploy of deployment "MemberManagement.war" was rolled back with no failure message
18:49:41,971 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS015877: Stopped deployment MemberManagement.war in 48ms
18:49:42,018 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS015877: Stopped deployment nlp_Server.war in 128ms
18:49:42,018 INFO  [org.jboss.as.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) JBAS014774: Service status report
JBAS014777:   Services which failed to start:      service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: JBAS018040: Failed to start context

18:49:42,018 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) JBAS014654: Composite operation was rolled back
18:49:42,018 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) {"JBAS014653: Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./nlp_Server: JBAS018040: Failed to start context"}}}}
18:49:44,732 INFO  [org.jboss.as.osgi] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBAS011942: Stopping OSGi Framework

The same war is getting successfully deployed in tomcat.

Answer 1

Your Jboss seems to run on JDK 7.

from your log:

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]

but you compile your source using JDK 8, so JDK7 cannot run the compiled code from JDK 8.

Please add source and target when you compile the source code.

e.g. javac -source 1.7 -target 1.7

Answer 2

I have found the answer. jboss 7 do not support jdk 1.8 as such. I have downloaded jboss-eap-6.4.0 which have jdk 1.8 support. My application now works fine.