Testng Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file

Question

We are getting following error while running testNG test case. We also tried with suggestion provided on site but it doesn't help us :

http://www.mkyong.com/hibernate/java-lang-classformaterror-absent-code-attribute-in-method-that-is-not-native-or-abstract-in-class-file/

Will debugging I can see these values in argument:

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/ejb/TransactionAttributeType

file:/abc/xyz/123/abc/.m2/repository/javaee/javaee-api/6/javaee-api-6.jar

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/ejb/TransactionAttributeType
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:792)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2521)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1845)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType$1.run(AnnotationType.java:104)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType$1.run(AnnotationType.java:101)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.<init>(AnnotationType.java:100)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.getInstance(AnnotationType.java:84)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:221)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:88)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.declaredAnnotations(Method.java:714)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:700)
    at org.testng.internal.annotations.JDK15AnnotationFinder.findAnnotation(JDK15AnnotationFinder.java:103)
    at org.testng.internal.TestNGClassFinder.<init>(TestNGClassFinder.java:60)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:409)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:235)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:205)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:160)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$1.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:141)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$DelegatingTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:271)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner$ProxyTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:575)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:159)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.<init>(SuiteRunner.java:113)
    at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1299)
    at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1286)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1140)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:111)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:204)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:175)

Answer 1

After adding weblogic full client in project build path we are able to run the testNG TCs.