Illegal reflective access thrown when running Alfresco Repository CE on ECS

[fabrice7]

Hi all,

I am trying to run Alfresco Repository CE on Amazon Web Services ECS and I get the following error:

2020-09-08 15:50:30,566  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [localhost-startStop-1] Starting 'Messaging' subsystem, ID: [Messaging, default]
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.apache.activemq.util.IntrospectionSupport (file:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/activemq-client-5.15.11.jar) to method sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.setHost(java.lang.String)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.apache.activemq.util.IntrospectionSupport
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release

It looks like Alfresco just hangs after that.

I am using Alfresco Repository CE 6.3.0; it is running inside ECS and I am building my own Docker images based off this one:

https://hub.docker.com/r/alfresco/alfresco-content-repository-community

The JAVA_OPTS look like this:

                -Ddir.root=/usr/local/tomcat/alf_data
                -Ddb.driver=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
                -Dindex.subsystem.name=noindex
                -Dalfresco.host=acs-repository.${Project}.lan
                -Dalfresco.port=443
                -Dalfresco.protocol=https
                -Daos.baseUrlOverwrite=https://acs-repository.${Project}.lan:443/alfresco/aos
                -Dmessaging.broker.connections.max=8
                -Dmessaging.broker.url="failover:(${Amazonmq.Outputs.OpenwireEndpoints})"
                -Dcsrf.filter.enabled=false
                -Djodconverter.enabled=false
                -Djodconverter.officeHome=null
                -Xms3500m
                -Xmx3500m
                -Dlocal.transform.service.enabled=false
                -Dtransform.service.enabled=false
                -Dlegacy.transform.service.enabled=false
                -DsyncService.mode=OFF
                -Dsync.mode=OFF
                -Dsync.pullJob.enabled=false
                -Dsync.pushJob.enabled=false
                -Dsystem.usages.enabled=false
                -Dsystem.usages.clearBatchSize=0
                -Dactivities.feed.notifier.enabled=false
                -Dactivities.feed.cleaner.enabled=false
                -Dactivities.post.cleaner.enabled=false
                -Dactivities.feed.generator.enabled=false
                -Dactivities.post.lookup.enabled=false
                -Dreplication.enabled=false
                -Dtransferservice.receiver.enabled=false
                -Dsystem.thumbnail.generate=false

Thanks a lot for any help!

[kaynezhang]

These are not errors ,they are just warnings.
Plase ensure that you have started activemq,or you can try to add following java OPTS to disable messging start check.
-Dmessaging.subsystem.autoStart=true

By the way why do you choose noindex subsystem?

[fabrice7 · Accepted solution]

Hi @kaynezhang ,

Thanks for your input. Actually, I found the problem: my security groups didn't allow the Alfresco Repository to connect to the AmazonMQ broker. I fixed that and it now moves a bit further. 

Thanks for your help!

[EddieMay]

Hi @fabrice7 

Great that you got it sorted and thanks for updating us.

Best wishes,