My jar not being picked up at runtime

[Dan Weiler]

I am attempting to pass my own object to my SOAP service and am running into some runtime problems that I am assuming to be classpath related. My deployment descriptor is pretty basic (see below) and it successfully deploys the service. The symptoms are a NoClassDefFound as soon as the deployed service is hit, and I have determined the class that it is complaining about is the object that I am passing ("BadOrderModel"). In the course of trying to resolve my path issue, I have dropped the jar that contains the BadOrderModel.class just about everywhere, including the following locations: my module's WEB-INF/lib, unjarred the class files into WEB-INF/classes, put the jar into tomcat's lib and common/lib. None of these things seems to work and I am slowly but surely losing my mind. Has anyone seen this type of behavior? The technologies/versions that I am using are Tomcat4, SOAP 2.3.   Any clues would be appreciated.     <isd:service xmlns:isd="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap/deployment"              id="urn:crb-transactions">   <isd:provider      type="java"      scope="Application"      methods="getFunction putFunction">      <isd:java class="xrb.soap.Transactions"/>   </isd:provider>   <isd:faultListener>org.apache.soap.server.DOMFaultListener</isd:faultListener>   <isd:mappings>    <isd:map encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"   xmlns:x="urn://mycompany.com/objects/" qname="x:BadOrderModel"   javaType="crb.model.shopping.BadOrderModel"   java2XMLClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer"   xml2JavaClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer" />   </isd:mappings> </isd:service>