Resolving "oracle.security.jps.wls.listeners.JpsApplicationLifecycleListener Class not Found" Exception

Issue:

Last week one of my customer reported that they are getting

'oracle.security.jps.wls.listeners.JpsApplicationLifecycleListener' Class not Found 

exception in Weblogic environment. They recently applied a patch and after servers are coming up but most of the applications or deployments were in 'Prepared' state. If you try to start them in Weblogic console you will receive the above error.

Cause:

StartScriptEnabled property in nodemanager.properties file was set to 'false'. This must set to 'true' if you are going to start your managed servers using Weblogic console.

Solution:

Simple change the StartScriptEnabled=true in nodemanager.properties file which is usually at WL_HOME/common/nodemanager/ in my case /opt/ora/idm/middleware/wlserver_10.3/common/nodemanager

Restart the managed server using weblogic console

Note: You might not get this issue if you always start servers using command line. 

Have a nice day,
Zeeshan
@baigsorcl