You have to get a couple of commons jar files and include them in your classpath.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/ Here's my classpath: CLASSPATH=axis.jar;jaxrpc.jar;commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;commons-discovery-0. 2.jar;wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar;saaj.jar;xml-apis.jar;xercesImpl.jar hth, -Peter -----Original Message----- From: Aram Melkoumian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Built in client and server not working I am trying to run the built in org.apache.xmlrpc.WebServer and org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient to test if it is working. I run it with the arguments given on http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/client.html. I get the following error when I try to execute the client: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/codec/DecoderException at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpc.createTypeFactory(XmlRpc.java:238) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpc.<init>(XmlRpc.java:193) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientResponseProcessor.<init>(XmlRpcClientRe sponseProcessor.java:48) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientWorker.<init>(XmlRpcClientWorker.java:4 3) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.getWorker(XmlRpcClient.java:347) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:190) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:184) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:177) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.main(XmlRpcClient.java:473) I am running java 1.5.02. -Aram
