Hi, I just experienced a problem with Velocity and Tomcat 5.0.19. I use Velocity 1.3, Velocity Tools 1.0, Struts 1.1 and Tomcat 5.0.19.
When starting my Web-App I got the following error: 2004-04-05 16:18:02 StandardContext[/Echnaton] Velocity [info] Velocity successfully started. 2004-04-05 16:18:02 StandardContext[/Echnaton] Velocity [info] Using toolbox configuration file '/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml' 2004-04-05 16:18:02 StandardContext[/Echnaton] Velocity [info] ServletToolboxManager: Loading toolbox... 2004-04-05 16:18:02 StandardContext[/Echnaton]StandardWrapper.Throwable java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/io/SAXReader at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.XMLToolboxManager.load(XMLToolboxManager.java:205) at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.ServletToolboxManager.getInstance(ServletToolboxManager.java:211) at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.initToolbox(VelocityViewServlet.java:252) at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.init(VelocityViewServlet.java:219) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1044) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:887) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3959) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4284) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:866) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:850) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:638) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:320) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:875) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:727) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:477) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1008) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:394) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1134) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:521) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2345) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:594) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398) On the Velocity-user mailinglist I was told to copy the dom4j.jar file into $CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed and that solved the problem. So far (Tomcat 4.x) I put the dom4j.jar into the lib directory of the WEB-INF of my web app. Could anybody please explain me what this endorsed directory is all about? Which libraries do I need to put where and why is it NOT possible to put libraries such as dom4j.jar into my Web-Application. Or is there anything I am doing wrong when deploying my web app to Tomcat 5? Any clarification, additional documentation etc is greatly appreciated. Tom
