Java is broken! The fact of the matter is that the one and only show-stopper problem with Java can be summed up in one term: 'class path'. It's something that some Java developers pretend doesn't exist and novices think they have licked...until they start to write more code! Unfortunately, the Sun folks think that trivia like for-each is more important than fixing the class path problem. Admittedly, it is a big problem and I suspect that the solution is going to come from someone outside of Sun setting aside a good deal of time to figure it out but until that happens, we will have to put up with this sort of insane solution...
Stop Tomcat. Move log4j-1.2.8.jar to <Tomcat>/common/lib Start Tomcat and test. If you still have a problem, then repeat for commons-discovery.jar and commons-logging.jar, together. If you still have a problem, then repeat for other JARs in <Tomcat>/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gila Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:02 AM Subject: Re: Cannot install Axis - Pls. help. > > > Hi, > > OK, I am sending the directory structure, and as you can see, it has all > the files. I tried to install axis on another machine just the way I do it > on my machine, and it works there! I am trying to find what is the > difference between the 2 machines. Following some of the emails in the > site, I thought the mcaffe antivirus might be disturbing - so I > un-installed on the failing machine it and tried to validate the axis > installation without it - with no success. > Other reasons I can think of: > 1) different versions of Java: on the successful machine I have java 1.5 > installed, including java web service developer pack 1.5. On the failing > machine I have java 1.4.0 > 2) some other sw is disturbing. > > well, these options are more difficult to check... but I'll get to them in > a while. > > BTW, I get an error while I start tomcat - I am also sending the error from > tomcat's log. > > Many thanks, > GC > > Directory of C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib > ============================================ > > 06/05/2005 01:49p <DIR> . > 06/05/2005 01:49p <DIR> .. > 05/07/2005 09:14p 55,147 activation.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 385,010 axis-ant.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 1,235,721 axis.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 71,442 commons-discovery.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 31,605 commons-logging.jar > 06/05/2005 01:49p 0 dir.txt > 06/13/2003 10:28a 35,759 jaxrpc.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 352,668 log4j-1.2.8.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 18,501 saaj.jar > 06/13/2003 10:28a 113,853 wsdl4j.jar > 10 File(s) 2,299,706 bytes > 2 Dir(s) 16,764,686,336 bytes free > > > Error from tomcat log: > ================= > > > 2005-06-05 08:58:07 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploying class repositories to > work directory C:\Apache\Tomcat4\work\Standalone\localhost\axis > 2005-06-05 08:58:07 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy class files > /WEB-INF/classes to C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\classes > 2005-06-05 08:58:07 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar to > C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\activation.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:07 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/axis-ant.jar to > C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis-ant.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:08 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/axis.jar > to C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:11 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/commons-discovery.jar to > C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-discovery.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:11 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar to > C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:11 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/jaxrpc.jar > to C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:11 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar to > C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:12 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/saaj.jar > to C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:13 WebappLoader[/axis]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/wsdl4j.jar > to C:\Apache\Tomcat4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\wsdl4j.jar > 2005-06-05 08:58:13 WebappLoader[/axis]: Reloading checks are enabled for > this Context > 2005-06-05 08:58:19 StandardManager[/axis]: Seeding random number generator > class java.security.SecureRandom > 2005-06-05 08:58:19 StandardManager[/axis]: Seeding of random number > generator has been completed > 2005-06-05 08:58:19 StandardWrapper[/axis:default]: Loading container > servlet default > 2005-06-05 08:58:19 StandardWrapper[/axis:invoker]: Loading container > servlet invoker > 2005-06-05 08:58:20 StandardWrapper[/axis:AdminServlet]: Marking servlet > AdminServlet as unavailable > 2005-06-05 08:58:20 StandardContext[/axis]: Servlet /axis threw load() > exception > javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class > org.apache.axis.transport.http.AdminServlet > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:91 2) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 3427) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3628) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:754) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:363) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2190) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.CatalinaService.start(CatalinaService.java:273) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.start(BootstrapService.java:245 ) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.main(BootstrapService.java:307) > ----- Root Cause ----- > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Layout > at > org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4jFactory.getInstance(Log4jFactory.java:1 53) > at > org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.ja va:285) > at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:409) > at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:76) > at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.<clinit>(AxisServlet.java:103) > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:130) > at > org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.class$(AxisServletBase.java:9 5) > at > org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.<clinit>(AxisServletBase.java :94) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAcces sorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstruc torAccessorImpl.java:27) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) > at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:296) > at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:249) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:90 3) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 3427) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3628) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:754) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:363) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2190) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.CatalinaService.start(CatalinaService.java:273) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.start(BootstrapService.java:245 ) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.main(BootstrapService.java:307) > > > >
