Glen: That is what I am doing. In this way after I am done with this app, if I need to use a different version of Poi in a differnt app then I don't have to rewrite my first app. Thanks for your help... Steve
Glen Stampoultzis wrote: >Andrew, he said he was using the CVS edition! > >You might also try to put the jars in WEB-INF/lib as this will make the JARs >local to your webapp. > >Regards, > >Glen > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "poi users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:21 AM >Subject: Re: Help with POI in servlet > > >>If you get the CVS edition of POI then all you'll need is the commons >>logging (hopefully not as a system library). Once it finds that then if >>it can't configure logging it just doesn't log. >> >>-Andy >> >>On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:37, Steven Citron-Pousty wrote: >> >>>another update. It also works if I put the jars in \$tomcathome\lib. >>>This really makes me think its a tomcat issue. But if people have other >>>suggestions it would be great to hear them... >>>Steve >>> >>>Steven Citron-Pousty wrote: >>> >>>>Greetings all: >>>>I built poi from source after pulling from CVS on tuesday this week. I >>>>am using tomcat 4.0.3 on a win2k box with tomcat starting as a >>>>service. J2sdk1.4. I put the log4j (v1.1.3) and the two poi jars in >>>>\$tomcat_home\common\lib. >>>>I can run the poi code no problem as a stand alone application with >>>>the 3 jars in my classpath. >>>>When I run it in the servlet I get the following runtime error: >>>> >>>>root cause >>>>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger >>>> at >>>> >org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.(HSSFWorkbook.java:115) > >>>> at ssrsServlet.Data.extractData(Unknown Source) >>>> at ssrsServlet.Data.doPost(Unknown Source) >>>> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) >>>> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) >>>> >>>>This goes away when I put the 3 jars in \$javahome\jre\lib\ext, which >>>>makes me think its a tomcat issue. Any thoughts or help on how to get >>>>around this error without having to put the jars in the jvm directory >>>>would be greatly appreciated. >>>>Thanks, >>>>Steve >>>>BTW Poi ROCKS!!! Thanks so much for a wonderful piece of software. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>http://www.superlinksoftware.com >>http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound >>Document >> format to java >>http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html >>- fix java generics! >>The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to >>vote. >>-Ambassador Kosh >> >
