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After Upgrading to latest Amazon Corretto Java version Windchill commands failed with error "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/BuildListener" in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 05-Oct-2023   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 12.0 to 13.0

Description

  • After Upgrading to Amazon Corretto Java 11.0.20 Windchill commands failed with error: 
    "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/BuildListener"
  • Windchill Start command reports an error :
D:\ptc\Windchill_12.1\Windchill>windchill start
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/BuildListener
        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.startServerReturningProcess(ServerLauncher.java:124)
        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.startServer(ServerLauncher.java:105)
        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.main(ServerLauncher.java:559)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.BuildListener
        at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:527)
        ... 3 more
  • Same issue for Windchill 13.0 after upgrading Amazon Corretto to Java 17.0.8
  • Unable to start Windchill server after Upgrading to Amazon Corretto Java 11.0.20
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