odd tomcat/xindice behavior

[Dave Viner]

Hi,
        I'm trying to write a new XMLRPC handler for Xindice.  I made a simple 
test
to try it out.  Here's the class:

package org.apache.xindice.server.rpc.messages;
import org.apache.xindice.server.rpc.RPCDefaultMessage;
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class SimpleTest extends RPCDefaultMessage {
   public Hashtable execute(Hashtable message) throws Exception {
      Hashtable result = new Hashtable();
      result.put( RESULT, "hello there. I'm simple test." );
      return result;
   }
}

I added this to war file.  I verified it was in the war file by running:

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\jar -tf ..\webapps\xindice-1.1b.war

and sure enough, it eventually output:

WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/xindice/server/rpc/messages/SimpleTest.class

Then I made a short perl script to test it out:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Frontier::Client;
use Data::Dumper;

my($server,$result,$url);

$url = 'http://localhost:8080/xindice-1.1b';
print "Hello World!\n";
$server = Frontier::Client->new('url'=>$url,'debug'=>0);

$result = listColl($server,'/db');
print "\nresult returned:\n";
print Dumper($result);
#exit;

$result = tester($server);
print Dumper($result);
exit;

sub tester
{
        my($server) = @_;
        my $args = {};
        $args->{'message'} = 'SimpleTest';
        return $server->call('run',$args);
}

## list collections
sub listColl
{
        my($server,$name) = @_;
        my $args = {};
        $args->{'message'} = 'ListCollections';
        $args->{'collection'} = $name;
        return $server->call('run',$args);
}


This calls the ListCollections function perfectly, but the whole output
looks like:

D:\xindice>perl c:\xi.pl
Hello World!

result returned:
$VAR1 = {
          'result' => [
                        'firstmetatest',
                        'nometatest',
                        'system',
                        'meta'
                      ]
        };
Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code 0: java.lang.Exception:
java.lang
.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.xindice.server.rpc.messages.SimpleTest

D:\xindice>

How is it that the SimpleTest class isn't found if it's in the war file?

I tried going to Tomcat's Web Application Manager and "Reload"-ing xindice.
And starting and stopping Tomcat.

Is there something that I'm missing?

thanks
dave viner