While trying to perform remote EAR deployment on WebSphere 7.0.0.19 using Jenkins WebSphere deployer plugin I am getting the below exception, please note that I already have com.ibm.ws.admin.client_7.0.0.jar and com.ibm.ws.orb_7.0.0.jar under \jenkins\plugins\websphere-deployer\WEB-INF\lib folder.
Error deploying to IBM WebSphere Application Server: org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere.services.deployment.DeploymentServiceException:
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere.services.deployment.WebSphereDeploymentService.getAppName(WebSphereDeploymentService.java:122)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere.services.deployment.WebSphereDeploymentService.getAppName(WebSphereDeploymentService.java:98)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere_deployer.WebSphereDeployerPlugin.getAppName(WebSphereDeployerPlugin.java:268)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere_deployer.WebSphereDeployerPlugin.createArtifact(WebSphereDeployerPlugin.java:226)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere_deployer.WebSphereDeployerPlugin.perform(WebSphereDeployerPlugin.java:168)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:770)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:734)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:683)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1784)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
Caused by: com.ibm.websphere.management.application.client.AppDeploymentException: [Root exception is java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class]
at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.AppManagementFactory.handleException(AppManagementFactory.java:555)
at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.AppManagementFactory.readArchive(AppManagementFactory.java:123)
at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.AppManagementFactory.readArchive(AppManagementFactory.java:77)
at com.ibm.websphere.management.application.client.AppDeploymentController.readArchive(AppDeploymentController.java:210)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.websphere.services.deployment.WebSphereDeploymentService.getAppName(WebSphereDeploymentService.java:108)
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