I ran into a similar issue. My mistake was that I was compiling the JSPs using Tomcat 6 compiler and deploying it into Tomcat 7. Once I modified my ant build file to use jasper from my Tomcat 7 installation, and redeployed, it resolved the issue.
Talha. -----Original Message----- From: Sonwabo Jordan [mailto:882219...@ukzn.ac.za] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:57 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Class not found exception Good dayI am new to Tomcat (using ver 7.0 on windows XP) and have deployed a war file which loads successfully using the Tomcat manger gui. However, when I try to run it I get the ff exception:java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.AnnotationProcessor org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678) org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1523) java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method) java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2291) java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1743) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100) org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:279) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)Really have no clue what the exception is pointing to.ThanksSonwabo Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
