Catalin, Thank you again for helping a newbie like myself.
Eric > 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(NativeConstructorAccessorI > mpl.java:39) > > at > > > sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorA > ccessorImpl.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] ------------------------------------------------------- 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]