i think you should place log4j.jar inside tomcat/common/lib then restart tomcat !
give it a try ! Sunday, January 25, 2004, 4:49:24 PM, Eric Hernandez wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a book called "Mastering Apache Velocity" by Gradecki and Cole. > > It involved downloading/extracting Maverick. The book stated that > I should place the friendbook-jsp.war file into Tomcat's webapps > directory plus moving log4j.jar and then startup Tomcat. > Unfortunately, I get the following error in the Tomcat's log during > startup... please help... Thank you in advance for anyone's help. > > 2004-01-24 07:58:26 StandardContext[/friendbook-jsp]: Servlet > /friendbook-jsp threw load() exception > javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class > org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:912) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3422) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3623) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:307) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:788) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:492) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:400) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.run(HostConfig.java:851) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) > ----- Root Cause ----- > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Category > at org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher.<clinit>(Dispatcher.java:141) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) > at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:306) > at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:903) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3422) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3623) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:307) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:788) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:492) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:400) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.run(HostConfig.java:851) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) > > 2004-01-24 07:58:26 StandardWrapper[/friendbook-jsp:invoker]: > Loading container servlet invoker > > -- Catalin Constantin Bounce Software www.bounce-software.com ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn [INVALID FOOTER]
