Message:Service does not exist : sunAMAuthApplicationService

This is a super misleading error message in OpenAM Authentication debug log. If you turn on debug level to Message and restart OpenAM, it will appear almost 100% of the time.

And last Saturday, I was at a customer's site which had a farm of OpenSSO 8U1R2 running. I was trying to debug on a node and switch to Message level, and I was seeing the same misleading error!

Wow! This has been there for years! This post is to remind myself to ignore it the next time I see it again.

amAuthConfig:10/18/2014 03:48:25:480 PM SGT: Thread[pool-1-thread-11,5,main]
Error retrieving service schema
Message:Service does not exist : sunAMAuthApplicationService
        at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.isValid(ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.java:135)
        at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.(ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.java:115)
        at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.getInstance(ServiceSchemaManagerImpl.java:589)
        at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManager.(ServiceSchemaManager.java:112)
        at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManager.(ServiceSchemaManager.java:77)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMAuthLevelManager.updateGlobalAuthLevelMap(AMAuthLevelManager.java:697)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMAuthLevelManager.initialize(AMAuthLevelManager.java:199)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMAuthLevelManager.(AMAuthLevelManager.java:97)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMAuthLevelManager.getInstance(AMAuthLevelManager.java:109)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMConfiguration.addServiceListener(AMConfiguration.java:770)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMConfiguration.getModuleBasedConfig(AMConfiguration.java:624)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMConfiguration.newConfiguration(AMConfiguration.java:213)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.config.AMConfiguration.getAppConfigurationEntry(AMConfiguration.java:691)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.service.AuthUtils.isPureJAASModulePresent(AuthUtils.java:1528)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.service.AMLoginContext.executeLogin(AMLoginContext.java:315)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.server.AuthContextLocal.login(AuthContextLocal.java:435)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.server.AuthContextLocal.login(AuthContextLocal.java:371)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.AuthContext.runLogin(AuthContext.java:675)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.AuthContext.login(AuthContext.java:572)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.AuthContext.login(AuthContext.java:524)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.AuthContext.login(AuthContext.java:383)
        at com.sun.identity.security.SystemAppTokenProvider.getAppSSOToken(SystemAppTokenProvider.java:78)
        at com.sun.identity.security.AdminTokenAction.getSSOToken(AdminTokenAction.java:295)
        at com.sun.identity.security.AdminTokenAction.authenticationInitialized(AdminTokenAction.java:143)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.UI.LoginLogoutMapping.initializeAuth(LoginLogoutMapping.java:103)
        at com.sun.identity.authentication.UI.LoginLogoutMapping.init(LoginLogoutMapping.java:65)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1100)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1023)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4969)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5376)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:345)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.LifecycleStarter.doRun(LifecycleStarter.java:58)
        at com.sun.appserv.management.util.misc.RunnableBase.runSync(RunnableBase.java:304)
        at com.sun.appserv.management.util.misc.RunnableBase.run(RunnableBase.java:341)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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