While its not a permanent or architecurally satisfactory solution ... have you tried
copying jdom.jar to the Tomcat/common/lib directory ?
I fixed a similar problem this way.
-Rey
----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:49:17 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is plaguing me
> I have been struggling w/ this for a few days, and have been to the
> archives and back, and haven't found a solution. Perhaps someone here has
> run into this problem and can point out to me where I went wrong.
>
> I am using tomcat 4.1.12 as my server, and i have placed axis 1.0 under the
> webapps folder, like so...
>
> webapps
> axis
> WEB-INF
> classes
> lib
>
> In the lib directory I placed all the jar files that my service is reliant
> upon. However...when I execute a service from a jsp, I find errors telling
> me that objects that I placed in the lib directory can't be found.
>
> The only way I have solved it is to place the specific jars in the
> classpath, but that defeats the purpose of this architecture.
>
>
> The specific jar that I'm struggling w/ at the moment is the jdom.jar. I
> created a simple jsp page where I create a jdom Document, just as a sanity
> check that the webapp can see it, and that goes fine.... Then I execute
> the soap service, and I get an error telling me that org/jdom/Document
> cannot be found.
>
> Here is a copy of the test code I am using, in case it helps solve the
> problem, and I will aslo provide a snippet of the error.
>
>
> <% Object ret=null;
> try {
> try{
> org.jdom.Document doc = new Document();
> System.out.println( "************** " + doc.getClass
> ().getName() + " **************" );
> }
> catch(Exception e){System.out.println("Can't print the
> document " + e.toString());}
> //String endpoint
> ="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CTPortal";
> String endpoint
> ="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CTPortal";
>
> Service service = new Service();
> Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
>
> call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
> call.setOperationName( "login" );
>
> ret = call.invoke( new Object[] { "0", "ctrd", new Integer(92)
> } );
> System.out.println(ret.getClass().getName());
> System.out.println("Sent 'Hello!', got '" + ret + "'");
> } catch (Exception e) {
> //e.printStackTrace();
> System.out.println("Damn Dirty Error");
> }
> %>
>
>
>
> The error:
> - Exception:
> AxisFault
> faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.userException
> faultString: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> faultActor: null
> faultDetail:
> stackTrace: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
> java.lang.NoCla
> ssDefFoundError: org/jdom/Document
> at cvg.borg.services.CTPortal.login(CTPortal.java:38)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
> at
> org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.j
> ava:372)
> at
> org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider
> .java:292)
>
>
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