Java 12 JMeter 5 HTTP/2 request java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/alpn/client/ALPNClientConnectionFactory

Question

I am using Java 12, JMeter 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 and bumps into the following exception when trying to send HTTP/2 request:

Response code: Non HTTP response code: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException
Response message: Non HTTP response message: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Client ALPNProcessors!

And this stack trace in the response body:

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Client ALPNProcessors!
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.FuturePromise.get(FuturePromise.java:138)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Connection.connect(HTTP2Connection.java:68)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.setConnection(HTTP2Request.java:278)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.sample(HTTP2Request.java:138)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.sample(HTTP2Request.java:115)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.doSampling(JMeterThread.java:622)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:546)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:486)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:253)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:835)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Client ALPNProcessors!
    at org.eclipse.jetty.alpn.client.ALPNClientConnectionFactory.<init>(ALPNClientConnectionFactory.java:54)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.http2.client.HTTP2Client.lambda$doStart$1(HTTP2Client.java:155)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.http2.client.HTTP2Client$ClientSelectorManager.newConnection(HTTP2Client.java:438)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector.createEndPoint(ManagedSelector.java:222)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector.access$1500(ManagedSelector.java:60)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$CreateEndPoint.run(ManagedSelector.java:825)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:754)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:672)
    ... 1 more

JMeter 5.1.1 comes with jetty-alpn-client-9.4.9.v20180320.jar by default.

I then download the jetty alpn java client library from http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-alpn-java-client/ and put that into jmeter installed lib/ folder and results in this exception:

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/alpn/client/ALPNClientConnectionFactory
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.FuturePromise.get(FuturePromise.java:138)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Connection.connect(HTTP2Connection.java:68)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.setConnection(HTTP2Request.java:278)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.sample(HTTP2Request.java:138)
    at com.blazemeter.jmeter.http2.sampler.HTTP2Request.sample(HTTP2Request.java:115)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.doSampling(JMeterThread.java:622)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:546)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:486)
    at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:253)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:835)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/alpn/client/ALPNClientConnectionFactory
    at org.eclipse.jetty.http2.client.HTTP2Client.lambda$doStart$1(HTTP2Client.java:155)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.http2.client.HTTP2Client$ClientSelectorManager.newConnection(HTTP2Client.java:438)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector.createEndPoint(ManagedSelector.java:222)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector.access$1500(ManagedSelector.java:60)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$CreateEndPoint.run(ManagedSelector.java:825)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:754)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:672)
    ... 1 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jetty.alpn.client.ALPNClientConnectionFactory
    at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:436)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:588)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
    ... 8 more

I switched to Java 11 but get the same error. Any advice and insight is appreciated.

sbordet sbordet · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-22T10:24:37

No Client ALPNProcessors! is a message from the Jetty libraries that handle ALPN.

Because you are running in JDK 12 (and I don't think there is any big difference with JDK 11, so JDK 12 should be fine), you must have the jetty-alpn-java-client jar in the classpath, so that the Jetty libraries will find an implementation of the ALPNProcessor.Client class (via the ServiceLoader mechanism) that, as the error shows, cannot be found.

You don't detail how you are setting up TLS, etc. and I would have expected JMeter to have the jetty-alpn-java-client jar in the classpath already, but evidently there is something wrong in your setup (or in JMeter's).

I would double check how JMeter configures TLS; if it is using the standard JDK implementation, then it must have the jetty-alpn-java-client jar in the classpath.

If JMeter is using other TLS implementations (e.g. Conscrypt), then the Jetty project provides similar libraries (e.g. jetty-alpn-conscrypt-client jar) that similarly should be in the classpath.

Java 12 JMeter 5 HTTP/2 request java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/alpn/client/ALPNClientConnectionFactory

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