SpringBoot Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 application fails on JDK with CRaC but without a dependency on org.crac:crac

I ran into this problem while starting to prepare for Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade on one of the project's I'm currently working on. The problem is reproducible on simplest possible Spring Boot application based on 3.2.0-RC1 that doesn't use CRaC but runs on JDK with CRaC. Such setup results in the following error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/crac/management/CRaCMXBean
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication$CoordinatedRestoreAtCheckpointStartup.restoreTime(SpringApplication.java:1712) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication$CoordinatedRestoreAtCheckpointStartup.startTime(SpringApplication.java:1717) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication$Startup.started(SpringApplication.java:1673) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:324) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1336) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1325) ~[spring-boot-3.2.0-RC1.jar:3.2.0-RC1]
    at sample.SampleApplication.main(SampleApplication.java:23) ~[main/:na]
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.crac.management.CRaCMXBean
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:525) ~[na:na]
    ... 7 common frames omitted

I ran into this by building the project on GitHub Actions and using Zulu JDK 17, and in such environment the JDK variant with CRaC will be installed:

- name: Setup Java
  uses: actions/setup-java@0ab4596768b603586c0de567f2430c30f5b0d2b0 # v3.13.0
  with:
    distribution: zulu
    java-version: 17

Run actions/setup-java@0ab4596768b603586c0de567f2430c30f5b0d2b0
  with:
    distribution: zulu
    java-version: 17
    java-package: jdk
    check-latest: false
    server-id: github
    server-username: GITHUB_ACTOR
    server-password: GITHUB_TOKEN
    overwrite-settings: true
    job-status: success
    token: ***
Installed distributions
  Trying to resolve the latest version from remote
  Resolved latest version as 17.0.9+9
  Trying to download...
  Downloading Java 17.0.9+9 (Zulu) from https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu17.46.27-ca-crac-jdk17.0.9-linux_x64.tar.gz ...
  Extracting Java archive...
  /usr/bin/tar xz --warning=no-unknown-keyword -C /home/runner/work/_temp/773f714d-7c59-474f-a621-8c5b286e19a9 -f /home/runner/work/_temp/8a30c149-7c8d-4d3e-aa83-3b8ee6c3520e
  Java 17.0.9+9 was downloaded
  Setting Java 17.0.9+9 as the default
  Creating toolchains.xml for JDK version 17 from zulu
  Writing to /home/runner/.m2/toolchains.xml

  Java configuration:
    Distribution: zulu
    Version: 17.0.9+9
    Path: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Java_Zulu_jdk/17.0.9-9/x64

It seems that the cause for this is the following code in SpringApplication that makes an assumption that CRaC will be used (and that org.crac.management.CRaCMXBean is available on the classpath) simply on presence of jdk.crac: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/bf73131298027236471c91b79e51a2c2c047c5de/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java#L1686-L1689

Comment From: vpavic

I assume updated issue title should say without a dependency on org.crac:crac.

Comment From: wilkinsona

It should indeed. Thanks.