BEA-000286 Failed to invoke startup class "JRF Startup Class" ADF ManagedServer

Version:

WLS 10.3.6 and ADR 11.1.1.7.0 on Windows

Issue:

Getting errors when Managed Server was tried to start from weblogic console URL. Nodemanager was up and its status in console was Active. The same Managed Server can be started up using startManagedserver.cmd

Error:

<Dec 15, 2014 11:28:03 PM MST> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000286> <Failed to invoke startup class "JRF Startup Class", java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jrf.wls.JRFStartup
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jrf.wls.JRFStartup
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

Reason:

From logs it was clear that issue is because of missing JRF classes in CLASSPATH.

JRF(Java Required Files) includes important libraries and capabilities that provides APIs that many OC4J (Oracle Container for Java, Oracle’s old JVM) applications depend upon.  JRF comes (under $MW_HOME/oracle_common) when you install Fusion Middleware component like ADF, SOA, WebCenter or Identity Management. 

Solution:

This class (JRF Startup) is in $MW_HOME\modules\oracle.jrf_11.1.1\jrf.jar

1) Add this path as part of WEBLOGIC CLASSPATH in commEnv.cmd

Class Path for Service is defined in $WLS_HOME\common\bin\commEnv.cmd (Eg: C:\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\bin). Add the entry $MW_HOME\modules\oracle.jrf_11.1.1\jrf.jar in WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH in commEnv.cmd file under "set WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH=" section


2) Restart the Managed Server.