Why are you using a classpath? Tomcat handles that for you completely. You shouldn't have any problems if the jar is added to the webapp lib.. (btw I believ you have to rename the zip to jar files so tomcat can read them).
Mvgr, Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Brendle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 5:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat 3.3 Startup > > > I've been working with and using Tomcat3.3 for two weeks and it > has been running fine. > Yesterday, I added a new .jar file to my classpath and all of a > sudden Tomcat stopped > running. I started Tomcat with the run attribute so it would > start in the same window > and this is the stack trace I receieved: > > EmbededTomcat: exception initializing ContextManager > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > javax/xml/parsers/SAXParserFactory > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:486) > > And as you can see, the crimson.jar file is in my classpath. > > classpath=c:\Oracle\Ora81\orb\classes\yoj.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\orb\ > classes\share.zip; > d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\lib\container\xalan.jar;d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\ > lib\common\tomcat_core.jar; > d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\lib\common\servlet.jar;d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\l > ib\common\jasper-runtime.jar; > d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\lib\container\jasper.jar;d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta > \webapps\examples\web-inf\classes; > d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\lib\common\cos.jar;d:\tomcat3.3\jakarta\lib\c > ontainer\crimson.jar > > Anyone know what is going on? > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>