Thanks for the
reply.
#3a seemed to do
the trick (put JAR files in the axis/WEB-INF/lib directory). I
put complex.jar in that directory and updated AXISCLASSPATH and CLASSPATH
to just include complex.jar without any leading path. Life is beautiful
once again.
Mike
-----Original Message-----I can think of 3 things:
From: Soactive Inc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:50 AM
To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Axis handler and Java NoClassDefFoundError problem
1. Make sure you have the package names correctly specified at the beginning of each Java file in question.
2. Its preferred that you bundle up all class files within .jar files (if possible).
3a) Place all the necessary jar files under axis/WEB-INF/lib since it uses that as the base class path for libraries at boot time.
3b) Place all the necessary class files under axis/WEB-INF/classes (follow the same path as the package names - so a class called a.b.C needs to be placed under WEB-INF/classes/a.b) since it uses that as the base classes path for classes at boot time.
Hope that helps,
-Arun
On 12/8/05, Mike Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I'm having a problem with my Axis handler and a pesky JAVA
NoClassDefFoundError error.
Here is the background. I'm using Axis 1.2.1 with tomcat 5.5.9 on a Windows
XP machine. I deployed a simple service, created a simple client
application and was able to connect to that service; no problem.
Next, I created a simple Axis handler (in package a.b) for use by both the
simple service and simple client, I updated client and server WSDD files,
redeployed the server, deployed the client and added the handler class file
to
tomcat/axis/WEB-INF/classes/a/b/simple_handler.class
and
<simple_client_dir>/a/b/simple_handler.class
Everything worked great! I was beginning to think I actually was smarter
than I looked ... WRONG!
I needed to add functionality to the simple handler; functionality that was
contained in a JAR file called complex.jar, which had the structure
x/y/*.class (i.e., all java code in complex.jar was in package x.y).
I updated simple_handler, copied the resulting simple_handler.class file to
the appropriate directories, added complex.jar to my AXISCLASSPATH and
CLASSPATH, restarted tomcat and reran my simple client. My simple client
and the simple_handler.class invoked on the client side worked great. But,
the simple_handler running under tomcat came back with the class not found
error shown below (bottom of email).
complex.jar was found by the handler when running under the simple client,
why couldn't it be found when running under the simple server? I use a .bat
file to set my AXISCLASSPATH and CLASSPATH, so both client and tomcat should
have the same environment.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike Straw
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
... tomcat startup info ...
INFO: Server startup in 3078 ms
- Exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: x/y/complexException
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils$2.run (ClassUtils.java:176)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.loadClass(ClassUtils.java:160)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.forName (ClassUtils.java:100)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.getJavaClass(WSDDDeployab
leItem.java:353)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.makeNewInstance(WSDDDeplo
yableItem.java:295)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.getNewInstance(WSDDDeploy
ableItem.java:274)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.getInstance(WSDDDeployabl
eItem.java:260)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.getHandler(WSDDDeployment.jav
a:394)
at
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem.getNewInstance(WSDDDeploy
ableItem.java:276)
... lots more ...
