Issue connecting to elastic search from a maven project

Question

Inside my maven-Spring project, I am trying to connect to ElasticSearch as: TransportClient esclient = TransportClient.builder().build() .addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), 9300));

I added maven dependency - org.elasticsearch 2.4.5

I keep getting : Servlet.service() for servlet dispatcher threw exception java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors.directExecutor()Ljava/util/concurrent/Executor; at org.elasticsearch.threadpool.ThreadPool.(ThreadPool.java:192) at org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient$Builder.build(TransportClient.java:133) at com.controller.AppController.loginPage(AppController.java:204) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:221)

To get rid of this exception: I tried adding Guava 18.0 Dependency, Adding exclusion in org.elasticSearch and shaded guava for maven as well.

Without adding guava dependency or exclusion, this is my dependency:tree

--- maven-dependency-plugin:2.6:tree (default-cli) ---
com.spring.mvc:App:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT
+- javax:javaee-web-api:jar:7.0:provided
+- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.2:compile
+- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  \- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
|  \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:4.2.5.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:jar:4.0.4.RELEASE:compile
|  +- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
|  \- org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:jar:4.0.4.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:jar:4.0.4.RELEASE:compile
+- org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:jar:4.0.4.RELEASE:compile
|  \- org.springframework.security:spring-security-acl:jar:4.0.4.RELEASE:compile
+- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:4.3.11.Final:compile
|  +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.1.3.GA:compile
|  +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging-annotations:jar:1.2.0.Beta1:compile
|  +- org.jboss.spec.javax.transaction:jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final:compile
|  +- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile
|  |  \- xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.0.b2:compile
|  +- org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:jar:4.0.5.Final:compile
|  +- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api:jar:1.0.0.Final:compile
|  +- org.javassist:javassist:jar:3.18.1-GA:compile
|  +- antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7:compile
|  \- org.jboss:jandex:jar:1.1.0.Final:compile
+- javax.validation:validation-api:jar:1.1.0.Final:compile
+- org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:jar:5.1.3.Final:compile
|  \- com.fasterxml:classmate:jar:1.0.0:compile
+- mysql:mysql-connector-java:jar:5.1.31:compile
+- ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:jar:1.1.7:compile
|  +- ch.qos.logback:logback-core:jar:1.1.7:compile
|  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.20:compile
+- javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:jar:3.1.0:compile
+- javax.servlet.jsp:javax.servlet.jsp-api:jar:2.3.1:compile
+- javax.servlet:jstl:jar:1.2:compile
\- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:jar:2.4.5:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-core:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-backward-codecs:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-common:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-queries:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-memory:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-highlighter:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-queryparser:jar:5.5.4:compile
   |  \- org.apache.lucene:lucene-sandbox:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-suggest:jar:5.5.4:compile
   |  \- org.apache.lucene:lucene-misc:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-join:jar:5.5.4:compile
   |  \- org.apache.lucene:lucene-grouping:jar:5.5.4:compile
   +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial:jar:5.5.4:compile
   |  +- org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial3d:jar:5.5.4:compile
   |  \- com.spatial4j:spatial4j:jar:0.5:compile
   +- com.google.guava:guava:jar:18.0:compile
   +- org.elasticsearch:securesm:jar:1.0:compile
   +- com.carrotsearch:hppc:jar:0.7.1:compile
   +- joda-time:joda-time:jar:2.9.5:compile
   +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:jar:2.8.1:compile
   +- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-smile:jar:2.8.1:compile
   +- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml:jar:2.8.1:compile
   +- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:jar:2.8.1:compile
   +- org.yaml:snakeyaml:jar:1.15:compile
   +- io.netty:netty:jar:3.10.6.Final:compile
   +- com.ning:compress-lzf:jar:1.0.2:compile
   +- com.tdunning:t-digest:jar:3.0:compile
   +- org.hdrhistogram:HdrHistogram:jar:2.1.6:compile
   +- commons-cli:commons-cli:jar:1.3.1:compile
   \- com.twitter:jsr166e:jar:1.1.0:compile

Answer 1

On looking more, I found GlassFish's own dependencies leak into apps classpath (and GF uses an older Guava) So the fix for Glassfish4.1 user's will be to update guava.jar in /glassfish/modules with guava 19 version.

Use this dependency :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.bundles.repackaged</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-guava</artifactId>
    <version>2.19</version>
</dependency>

Since fixing the issue requires meddling with GF's own libraries and is error-prone, I moved to Tomcat and it's working fine with no other changes.