I had this problem til I downloaded the latest orion.jar on the web site.
It updated me to .91g and then the 'library path' stuff worked fine for
me. .91b never could find my classes.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, JonTom Kittredge wrote:
> I have just started using Orion 0.9.1b, and have gotten it to load my
> web-app, except that it throws NoClassDefFound for classes that I have
> stored in the WEB-INF/lib directory of my web-app war (which is in turn
> packaged in an ear).
>
> Searching the archives of this list, I found a message posted on 4 Feb
> from someone having the same problem ("Why can't Orion get into my jar
> files?"), but I didn't see any reply. Is this a known problem, or is
> this result of a configuration error on my part?
>
> I also a reference in email posted on 8 Feb, from Magnus Stenman ("Re:
> Re: classloader problem") to a recently fixed bug:
>
> PS. The 0.9.1 bug was that the servlet loader did not get
> access to the
> library loader if no EJBs where deployed in the
> application.
>
> Could what I'm seeing be related to this bug?
>
> I also references in the archive to version 0.9.1c, 0.9.1g, etc. The
> only version I could find on the web site was 0.9.1b. Should I try a
> more recent build for fixes to this problem? Are these more recent
> versions available for download?
>
> I am appending to this message some of the relevant details of my
> configuration, in case they are of help in diagnosing my problem.
>
> Yours, JonTom
>
> JT Kittredge
> ITA Software
> Cambridge, Massachusetts
>
> Stack trace from the application log:
> 2/22/00 11:36 AM web-app: ITA.cvg.CVGServices: DEBUG: CVGServices, init
> 2/22/00 11:36 AM web-app: Error initializing servlet
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> com/bitmechanic/sql/ConnectionPoolManager
> at ITA.cvg.DBManager.initDBConnection(Compiled Code)
> at ITA.cvg.DBManager.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at ITA.cvg.CVGServices.initDBManager(Compiled Code)
> at ITA.cvg.CVGServices.init(Compiled Code)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.n_(Compiled Code)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.no(JAX)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.nu(Compiled Code)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at fk.ml(Compiled Code)
> at c3.ml(Compiled Code)
> at c2.mg(Compiled Code)
> at c4.mu(JAX)
> at c.run(Compiled Code)
> 2/22/00 11:36 AM web-app: Error preloading servlet
> javax.servlet.ServletException: Error initializing servlet
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.no(JAX)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.nu(Compiled Code)
> at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at fk.ml(Compiled Code)
> at c3.ml(Compiled Code)
> at c2.mg(Compiled Code)
> at c4.mu(JAX)
> at c.run(Compiled Code)
> 2/22/00 11:36 AM web-app: Started
>
>
> Listing of directories in my EAR file:
> ./web-app
> ./web-app/WEB-INF
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/core
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/util
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/prego
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/cvg
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/cvg/jsp
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/server
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/lookup
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ITA/pogo85
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/lib
> ./web-app/help
> ./web-app/images
> ./web-app/images/signin
> ./web-app/signin
> ./web-app/jsp
> ./web-app/html
> ./META-INF
>
> Listing of JARs in my EAR file:
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/lib/jdbcpool-0.94.jar (contains
> com/bitmechanic/sql/ConnectionPoolManager, the class that is not found)
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/lib/mysql.jar
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar
> ./web-app/WEB-INF/lib/mail.jar
>
> Listing of ./META-INF/application.xml:
> <application>
> <display-name>CVG</display-name>
> <module>
> <web>
> <web-uri>web-app</web-uri>
> </web>
> </module>
> </application>
>
> Listing of ./META-INF/orion-application.xml:
> <orion-application>
> <web-module id="web-app" path="web-app" />
> <persistence path="persistence" />
> <log>
> <file path="application.log" />
> </log>
> </orion-application>
>
> Partial listing of ./web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml:
> <web-app>
> <display-name>CVG</display-name>
> <session-config>
> <session-timeout>90</session-timeout>
> </session-config>
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>cvgservices</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>ITA.cvg.CVGServices</servlet-class>
> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>debugparams</param-name>
> <param-value>{default|cvg|cvghi}</param-value>
> </init-param>
> </servlet>
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>cvgservices</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> <taglib>
> <taglib-uri>utiltags</taglib-uri>
> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/utiltags.jar</taglib-location>
> </taglib>
> </web-app>
>
>
James Dalrymple
Telesoft Corp.
