Play Framework - dev server shutting down after refreshing

Question

My problem is that every time I run sbt run, the server works until I refresh the page. After that, I get this in my terminal

Uncaught error from thread [play-dev-mode-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-3]: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter, shutting down JVM since 'akka.jvm-exit-on-fatal-error' is enabled for for ActorSystem[play-dev-mode]
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter

Since there's not much ressources about play and scala on the web, I really need guidance for this.

Shade

This is a Java thing. Start googling for "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter". – Schmid

Have you already switched to JDK9? java.xml.bind module is not resolved by default if you are using new module feature. If you need JAXB either revert back to JDK8 or run with --add-modules java.xml.bind or else deploy JAXB on the class path – Cytokinesis

Thanks I made it work. Can you post this as an answer so I can accept it ? – Shade

How did you make it work? I'm having the same issue, I've added to build.sbt javaOptions in Universal ++= "--add-modules=java.xml.bind" and it compiles, but doesn't run. – Aquifer

I've posted an answer – Shade

Answer 1

I resolved my issue with libraryDependencies += "javax.xml.bind" % "jaxb-api" % "2.1" in my build.sbt

@Bask.ws was actually right, I needed JAXB.

You can checkout the Maven repository

Shade

thank you so much for this answer. I was using the play framework 2.6 starter project. – Rasheedarasher