I don't know how many times we need to tell people this but,

Do NOT put any Struts dependent jars in the server's common area! All jars distributed with Struts MUST be in /WEB-INF/lib.

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/faqs/kickstart.html#jar

David



From: "Matt Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Struts 1.1 library issue
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:23:47 -0500

Is there a known problem with struts 1.1 library dependencies? When my
webapp loads, the struts servlet bombs and is marked unavailable. The stack
trace looks like:


javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:91
1)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:
3420)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2189)
                ....
----- Root Cause -----
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/digester/RuleSet
                ....

struts.jar is in the webapp's /WEB-INF/lib
commons-digester.jar is in tomcat/server/lib

This problem does not occur with struts 1.0 since that version lacks the
commons library dependencies.

Matt Griffin
Software Developer
Nerac, Inc.


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