java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor when starting Zeppelin on XUbuntu 14.10

In XUbuntu 14.10 with the following java version

java version "1.7.0_75"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_75-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)

I have tried to install Zeppelin following the guide at https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/install/install.html. The build finishes ok but when I start Zeppelin the service at port 8080 is down and I get the following message at logs/zeppelin*.log:

WARN [2015-05-03 18:34:02,023] (

AbstractLifeCycle.java[setFailed]:204) - FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server@1b2c402: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/ClassVisitor
at com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig.init(ScanningResourceConfig.java:79)
at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.init(PackagesResourceConfig.java:104)
at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:78)
at com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig.<init>(PackagesResourceConfig.java:89)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig(WebComponent.java:696)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.createResourceConfig(WebComponent.java:674)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.init(WebComponent.java:205)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:376)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:559)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:161)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:532)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:344)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:791)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:265)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1242)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:717)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:494)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:229)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:172)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:95)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:282)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
at org.apache.zeppelin.server.ZeppelinServer.main(ZeppelinServer.java:105)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
... 26 more

The problem is solved by adding the following dependency to zeppelin-server/pom.xml and recompiling:

<dependency>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<version>3.3.1</version>
</dependency>