NoClassDefFoundError

[Lund, Kevin]

OK, to start I'll admit that I'm a Tomcat newbie. I have looked over the FAQ
and the list archives, and haven't really found anything that has helped, so
here goes.

I am getting a NoClassDefFoundError exception from a servlet, even though
the specified class is most certainly in a jar file in the /lib directory of
the web application.

I want to avoid putting the jar file in the system classpath, if at all
possible. Any thoughts on where I should point my investigation?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin Lund