As you may know, sponge is a replacement for bukkit made by the forgemodloader team themselves.

You can see more about it on :
www.Spongepowered.org

I ran what I believed to be the latest version of your mod (1.10.2 rv4 alpha) and it prevents the Sponge enabled server from patching a class. Because it loads it before sponge patches it.

It would be appreciated if you could make your mod work with sponge. As many servers appreciate the extra functionality that sponge offers. As-well as I love your mod. And would love to re-include it on our server.

from my understanding all you would have to do to fix this is make AE2 wait its turn. and not load the class prematurely. but you guys are the real geniuses behind this

Environment:
While your mod is installed along side sponge, near immediately (within the first 30 seconds) after starting the server, it will crash saying sponge failed to patch a class. Claiming to check core mods to see if any of them loaded it prematurely. i removed every mod one by one that was considered a core mod. Upon removing Applied Energistics the problem ceased. None of the other core mods i had caused the issue.

Minecraft Version: 1.10.2
Forge Version: forge-1.10.2-12.18.3.2281-universal
Ae2 version: appliedenergistics2-rv4-alpha-11
SpongeVersion: spongeforge-1.10.2-2123-6.0.0-BETA-1902

not want to sound too harsh, but you'd only have to use the search to find the solution prior making a new issue :)

Duplicate
#2482

Solution at the bottom of the topic is using SpongeBootstrap: https://forums.spongepowered.org/t/spongebootstrap-fixes-ordering-issue-with-other-coremods/12275

im terribly sorry. im new to github, thank you for the information. :)