Quartz scheduled job on Liberty app-server calling REST throwing exception - quartz-scheduler

I'm having real hassle getting a quartz job in an application server to call a REST service - totally puzzled (:
I have quartz (v 2.2.2) deployed & working on an IBM Liberty Application Server (v 8.5.5.8) with Java 1.8
It scans a directory for files and then calls my Dummy Task.
However, when I replace the Dummy Task with a REST WebClient call - I get a pretty odd stacktrace.
java.lang.NullPointerException
[err] at com.ibm.ws.jaxrs20.client.bus.LibertyJAXRSClientBusFactory.getClientScopeBus(LibertyJAXRSClientBusFactory.java:89)
[err] at com.ibm.ws.jaxrs20.client.JAXRSClientImpl.target(JAXRSClientImpl.java:109)
[err] at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.spec.ClientImpl.target(ClientImpl.java:100)
[err] at notification.server.rest.MyIBMHandler.testClient4(MyIBMHandler.java:61)
the last line is mine and the code I wrote is simply based on this: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/was_beta_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/twlp_jaxrs2.0_clientconfig.html
When I googled the exception above, I didn't see much except for one stacktrace related one:-
NullPointerException when running CXF JAX-RS 2.0 client "target" method in Liberty Profile under a Thread
Which leads me to believe there may be some form of a threading conflict here.
To prove my REST client code was ok on my Liberty app-server, I did put my REST methodinto a servlet and call it there and it did work fine.
i.e.
public void testClient4() {
javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder cb = ClientBuilder.newBuilder();
javax.ws.rs.client.Client c = cb.build();
String res = null;
try {
String resourceURL = "http://localhost:9080/SampleRest/sample/";
res = c.target(resourceURL).path("Greeting").request().get(String.class);
System.out.println("res:" + res);
} catch (Exception e) {
res = "[Error]:" + e.toString();
System.err.println("error:" + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (c != null)
c.close();
System.out.println("res:" + res);
}
}
My Quartz props are close to out of the box, here is the threadpool section:-
org.quartz.threadPool.class = org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool
org.quartz.threadPool.threadCount = 4
org.quartz.threadPool.threadPriority = 5
org.quartz.threadPool.threadsInheritContextClassLoaderOfInitializingThread = true
My job class uses the annotation - #DisallowConcurrentExecution
I'm using the jersey 2.17 libs & jackson libs
I've added lots of features to my Liberty profile - i.e.
<featureManager>
<feature>jsp-2.3</feature>
<feature>jaxrs-2.0</feature>
<feature>servlet-3.1</feature>
<feature>apiDiscovery-1.0</feature>
<feature>jaxrsClient-2.0</feature>
</featureManager>
For now, the REST service being called is a simple one.
When running quartz within an app-server, do I need to do anyconfig to be able to call a REST service? - anyone got this working?

It appears we fixed this NPE in the latest Liberty fixpack, looking here, the 8.5.5.9 fixpack is planned to be available on March 18. Once released, please test and determine if it fixes this problem, and if not let us know.

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I was successfully compiled the program and created a Runnable jar.
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I'm upgrading a project to Java 11. I realized that some of the internal packages such as sun.security.krb5.Config & sun.security.krb5.KrbException are no longer "visible" due to modules.
Few examples of how the codebase is consuming these packages are below:
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ClassCastException On JBOSS OSGI 7.1

I use JBOSS OSGI 7.1 for my project.
I have 2 bundle:
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jerseyBundle (service consumer)
When I deploy and start usermanagement bundle,
Then deploy and start jersey bundle.
jerseyBundle getServiceReference() successful.
Then.
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The reason for the observed behaviour may be that OSGi caches the service object by bundle. So if you do bundleContext.getService(sref) then OSGI will store this object internally and always return the same until you do ungetService.
So when you update the service bundle which also contains the interface and refresh the client you will have a new class for the interface. If you now do a cast of an old service object to the new interface the ClassCastException will occur.
One way to cope with this is to only use the service object for a short period of time and then unget it. Like this:
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myO = type.cast(bundleContext.getService(sref));
doStuff(myO);
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Of course this is only practicable for infrequent calls as you have some overhead.
The other way is to use a ServiceTracker and react on service additions and removals. So for example you could inject a service into your class which does "doStuff" and remove / replace the service when there are changes. This is quite hard to do on your own though.
In fact this is the reason why there are frameworks like declarative services (DS) or blueprint. These make sure to reinject service and restart your components when services come and go.
As you are already using blueprint on the provider side you might try to use it on the client side too. The blueprint client should not have the problems you observed.
Btw. blueprint and DS handle service dynamics very differently. Blueprint injects a proxy once and then just replaces the service object inside the proxy while DS will really restart your user component.

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http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/java
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There's a few other tricks to getting embedded Jetty working with guice-servlet, let me know if this isn't enough.
My first answer to this turned out to have problems when GWT tried to read its serialization policy. In the end I went for a simpler approach that was less Guice-based. I had to step through the Jetty code to understand why setBaseResource() was the way to go - it's not immediately obvious from the Javadoc.
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