Well, it is somehow not in the classpath. The JVM isn't lying when it says that class isn't available, and Velocity 1.6.3 needs it. Are you perhaps using the velocity-1.4-dep.jar and then switching to velocity-1.6.3.jar? If so, you might try the velocity-1.6.3-dep.jar.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Matthew Harmsen <mharm...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/22/10 14:05, Nathan Bubna wrote: >> >> excuse me, i meant 2.4+ >> >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nathan Bubna<nbu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/upgrading.html >>> >>> Are you sure you have Commons Lang 2.1+? >>> >>> > > Yes: > > # rpm -q jakarta-commons-lang > jakarta-commons-lang-2.4-1.fc13.x86_64 > >>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Harmsen<mharm...@redhat.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>> We have a tomcat 5.5 java application which has been successfully using >>>> velocity 1.4 for a number of years (most recently on Fedora 12). >>>> >>>> When we attempted to run this application on Fedora 13 Beta (which uses >>>> velocity 1.6.3), we receive the following stack dump: >>>> >>>> Apr 21, 2010 11:38:54 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log >>>> INFO: Use of the properties initialization parameter 'properties' has >>>> been >>>> deprecated by 'org.apache.velocity.properties' >>>> Apr 21, 2010 11:38:54 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log >>>> SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.initialize(ResourceManagerImpl.java:165) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.initializeResourceManager(RuntimeInstance.java:661) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:251) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:589) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeSingleton.init(RuntimeSingleton.java:229) >>>> at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.init(Velocity.java:107) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet.initVelocity(VelocityServlet.java:195) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet.init(VelocityServlet.java:162) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1139) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:791) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:127) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:548) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) >>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >>>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: >>>> org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils >>>> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) >>>> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) >>>> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) >>>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319) >>>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264) >>>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332) >>>> ... 23 more >>>> >>>> We have verified that the jakarta-common-lang jar file exists and is >>>> readable from /usr/share/java, and when we downgraded velocity 1.6.3 to >>>> 1.4, >>>> the application began running successfully. >>>> >>>> Has anyone else encountered this or a similar issue? >>>> >>>> The application needs to continue to support velocity 1.4 --- are there >>>> migration guidelines for this sort of issue that will allow the >>>> application >>>> to continue to work with velocity 1.4, but also work with velocity 1.6? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> -- Matt >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
