The error is not strange at all. It relates to the different class loaders that Tomcat chains together. See http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html.
Dropping soap.war into Tomcat's webapps is the way Sun wants you to deploy web applications. The instructions for installing SOAP on Tomcat 4 (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-soap/java/docs/install /tomcat.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html) use this method. With the steps you followed, there are 2 copies of the mail, activation and xerces jar files (Tomcat already has copies of these in common/lib). You also muck with the bootstrap class loader by changing catalina.sh, which you should never do. If you follow only steps 1-3 and not steps 4 and 5, you might get something that works. Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Dovlecel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Little problems with installing Apache soap on tomcat 4.1.12 > Hello to everybody. > > I could not find this kind of things in the archive so I am just asking you > what it could be wrong with my instalation. > > I can't access my soap. Not even by calling the rpcrouter by browser. It > gives me the following exception: (full exception at the end of the message) > > javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:6 62) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:214) > > > The root cause of the exception is > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet > > I can start the soap web admin tool. So the jsp stuff runs great. But when I > try to list the services, crash with the same exception. > > Do you have any idea why? > > Have you encontered this before? > > > > I use java 1.4.1, tomcat 4.1.12 and downloaded the apache soap 2.3.1. > > I don't want to install apache soap by placing the soap.war file inside the > webapps directory. Though it seems that I should consider this approach too. > > Instead I have done the followings: > 1) Unziped the apache soap > 2) copy the webapps/soap from soap dir to tomcat/webapps > 3) add the soap.jar into the tomcat/webapps/soap/WEB-INF/lib > 4) placed the xerces.jar, mail.jar and activation.jar to the .../web-inf/lib > > 5) changed the catalina.sh (only in one place, adding the xerces.jar just at > the begining of the CLASSPATH > > start the tomcat. (catalina.sh run) > > What should I do next ? > > What have I done wrong ? > > I will try to use the soap.war and check if it works. But... pretty strange > error, don't you think? > > Thanks in advance (and please answer as fast as possible) > dovle > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-help@;xml.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-help@;xml.apache.org>
