Greetings, Axis is great! However, I want to make sure that the problem I'm seeing is a bug and not operator error. I'm using Axis Beta 1 with JDK1.3.1_02 on Win2000. I've downloaded and installed Sun's Web Services Developer Pack jwsdp-1_0-ea2 and configured it successfully on my system. I installed Axis on the Tomcat 4.0 servlet engine associated with the WSDP and everything works fine -- I've been able to build and deploy web services using Axis. However, when I do *exactly the same thing* to install Axis as a webapp for a Tomcat 4.0 distribution downloaded from apache.org, the Axis servlet cannot load. I've tried Tomcat 4.0.2 and also Tomcat 4.0.3 and gotten the same results. I even went so far as to copy some of the extra jar files from the WSDP Tomcat common lib to the Tomcat 4.0.x common lib directory but that didn't work on either distribution (I didn't really expect any effect from this, but I was getting desperate).
Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong, or if I should submit a bug. I'm appending the stack trace. Thank you, Sheri Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:89 3) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:653) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja va:214) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja va:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:2 46) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java :174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java: 1012) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) root cause java.lang.VerifyError: Cannot inherit from final class at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:493) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:111) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLo ader.java:1631) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:926) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1360) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1243) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:237) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:88 4) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:653) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja va:214) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja va:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:2 46) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java :174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java: 1012) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)