'Could not initialize class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory' in component linking

Question

We are getting Java.Lang.RuntimeException error in all the website pages. Following is the snippet from the cd_core log.

I have seen the license file has been commented out from storage config. Could it be a reason? Or is it the cd_linking.jar not available in the lib?

2013-12-04 01:00:35,496 ERROR ComponentLink - Error while constructing linking: Could not initialize class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory
    at com.tridion.linking.ComponentLink.init(ComponentLink.java:124) ~[cd_linking.jar:na]
    at com.tridion.linking.ComponentLink.<init>(ComponentLink.java:86) [cd_linking.jar:na]
2013-12-04 01:00:35,496 ERROR ComponentLink - No LinkInfo is found in the bindings, could not retrieve ComponentLinkInfo

UPDATE 1 - As I said, the licence file is commented out.

<Storage Type="persistence" Id="sessionDb" dialect="MSSQL" Class="com.tridion.storage.persistence.JPADAOFactory">
  <Pool Type="jdbc" Size="5" MonitorInterval="60" IdleTimeout="120" CheckoutTimeout="120" /> 
- <DataSource Class="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource">
  <Property Name="serverName" Value="abc" /> 
  <Property Name="portNumber" Value="test123" /> 
  <Property Name="databaseName" Value="testdb" /> 
  <Property Name="user" Value="testuser" /> 
  <Property Name="password" Value="test" /> 
  </DataSource>
  </Storage>
  </Wrapper>
  </Wrappers>
- <Storages>
- <Storage Type="persistence" Id="TridionDB" dialect="MSSQL" Class="com.tridion.storage.persistence.JPADAOFactory">
  <Pool Type="jdbc" Size="5" MonitorInterval="60" IdleTimeout="120" CheckoutTimeout="120" /> 
- <DataSource Class="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource">
  <Property Name="serverName" Value="xyz" /> 
  <Property Name="portNumber" Value="test" /> 
  <Property Name="databaseName" Value="testdb1" /> 
  <Property Name="user" Value="testuser1" /> 
  <Property Name="password" Value="testpwd" /> 
  </DataSource>
  </Storage>
- <Storage Type="filesystem" Class="com.tridion.storage.filesystem.FSDAOFactory" Id="LocalFileSystem" defaultStorage="true" LocalFileSystemsystem="false">
  <Root Path="b:/root/path" /> 
  </Storage>
- <Storage Type="filesystem" Class="com.tridion.storage.filesystem.FSDAOFactory" Id="LocalFileSystemData">
  <Root Path="c:/root/path" /> 
  </Storage>
  </Storages>
  </Global>
- <ItemTypes defaultStorageId="TridionDB">
- <!-- 
    <Item typeMapping="Publication" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentPresentation" itemExtension=".Asp" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="BinaryMeta" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="BinaryVariant" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentMeta" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentPresentationMeta" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ItemMeta" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentPresentation" itemExtension=".Jsp" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="LinkInfo" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="PageMeta" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="Reference" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="Schema" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="XSLT" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentPresentation" itemExtension=".Txt" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="ComponentPresentation" itemExtension=".Xml" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="Page" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />
    <Item typeMapping="Binary" storageId="LocalFileSystem" />

  --> 
  </ItemTypes>
- <!-- 
 Specifies the location of the license file. 
    <License Location="cd_licenses.xml"/>
  --> 
UPDATE 2 - 
<! --DD4T-->  
<Publication  Id="42" d efaultStorageId="Tri dionDB" cached="fale">    
<Item  storageId ="defaultFile" typeMapping="Binary" cached="true"  />

Answer 1

I have received this error earlier when automatic update of JDK have corrupted my existing java installation.

Just go to the command line on the server and execute java -version command and verify whether the installed java is correct version and is working perfectly fine.

If after executing the java -version command you receive NoClassDefFoundError error, manually un-install and re-install java on your server.

Do this for both 32-bit as well as 64-bit installations.

Answer 2

Yes, as the comment above. But i'm recommending to setup a single location for the license file and then point to it from all the places where it's needed. In your case, open up cd_link_conf.xml and add this just before the < Configuration/>:

<License Location="C:/Your/path/cd_licenses.xml"/>

Answer 3

This could also be a simple missing JAR problem.

The error is a bit confusing, but it could be that class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory can't be found. Make sure you have JAR cd_datalayer.jar among your other JARs in the /lib folder.

You don't have to have the License node in your config, as long as there is a cd_licenses.xml file in your /classes folder (or somewhere in your classpath).

Answer 4

I had this error But in a different scenario and I figured out that my cd_license was expired.

So for once do validate your cd_license.xml.

This might fix your problem.