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Horrible Weld error

From: Cay Horstmann <cay.horstmann_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:54:57 -0700

I am trying to put together a lab for a summer class where I foolishly
agreed to use NetBeans 6.9, Glassfish 3.0.1 and CDI. I am getting the
following error:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is
not native or abstract in class file com/horstmann/qq/beans/<error>
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:920)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1430)
        at org.glassfish.weld.BeanDeploymentArchiveImpl.populate(BeanDeploymentArchiveImpl.java:192)
        at org.glassfish.weld.BeanDeploymentArchiveImpl.<init>(BeanDeploymentArchiveImpl.java:102)
        at org.glassfish.weld.DeploymentImpl.<init>(DeploymentImpl.java:118)
        at org.glassfish.weld.WeldDeployer.load(WeldDeployer.java:315)
        at org.glassfish.weld.WeldDeployer.load(WeldDeployer.java:99)
        at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.load(ModuleInfo.java:175)
        at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.load(ApplicationInfo.java:216)
        ...

No, I have no idea what makes Weld unhappy. I did a bit of
refactoring, and now I am hosed.

This is with hot deployment inside NetBeans. When I deploy the WAR
manually, the problem doesn't arise. Unfortunately, that's not an
option for my lab.

Did anyone run into this?

Thanks,

Cay