| Priya <priyako...@gmail.com>: Mar 20 03:14PM +0530 
 Hi Team,
 
 We are working on development environment with Tomcat 10 where third party
 jar  *jakarta.validation-api.jar *has been updated to tomcat specific
 version where package structure is changed from javax.validation to
 jakarta.validation.
 
 When GWT 2.11 with tomcat specific jars(Gwt-servlet and
 requestfactory-server.jar) are deployed, it is trying to find
 javax.validation.Path with below stack trace-
 
 Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/Path
 java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:467)
 at
 com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.SerializationPolicyLoader.loadFromStream(SerializationPolicyLoader.java:217)
 at
 com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.jakarta.RemoteServiceServlet.loadSerializationPolicy(RemoteServiceServlet.java:98)
 at
 com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.jakarta.RemoteServiceServlet.doGetSerializationPolicy(RemoteServiceServlet.java:437)
 at
 com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.jakarta.RemoteServiceServlet.getSerializationPolicy(RemoteServiceServlet.java:251)
 at
 com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamReader.prepareToRead(ServerSerializationStreamReader.java:505)
 at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.jakarta.RPC.decodeRequest(RPC.java:241)
 
 As this package has been changed in our environment to
 jakarta.validation.path, GWT source code is unable to find this class,
 giving NoClassDefFoundError.
 
 Also we can find several references of javax.validation.Path in gwt-user
 and other jars under GWT 2.11 jars.
 
 My queries are  -
 1. Has anyone come across such error, if yes, what is workaround.
 2. as javax packages are outdated and replaced by jakarta, is there a plan
 to update them and what is significance of those classes .Also, how this
 failure can be addressed.
 3. One solution I could see for older releases, is to add dependency for
 gwt-servlet-deps.jar, but that is not viable solution to us,as we are
 moving away from javax packages due to tomcat upgrade.
 
 Any immediate help will be appreciated.
 Thanks!
 
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