It seems like wsdl4j.jar is not being found. Looking at your classpath, the other jars have explicit paths but you used an environment variable for wsdl4j.jar and maybe it's not being exported. Also, if you are on a Windows box, environmental variables need to be enclosed by two percent signs (e.g. %AXIS_HOME%) versus the single dollar sign (e.g. $AXIS_HOME) of Unix/Linux.
-----Original Message----- From: shantanu chawla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:31 PM To: axis-user@ws.apache.org Subject: Error in WSDL2Java Hi folks I am using axis 1.2RC3. Whenever I run java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java myService.wsdl i get the following error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.wsdl.Definition at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaGeneratorFactory.class$(JavaGenerator Factory.java:70) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaGeneratorFactory.addDefinitionGenerat ors(JavaGeneratorFactory.java:181) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaGeneratorFactory.addGenerators(JavaGe neratorFactory.java:135) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaGeneratorFactory.<init>(JavaGenerator Factory.java:113) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.Emitter.<init>(Emitter.java:148) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java.createParser(WSDL2Java.java:202) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.WSDL2.<init>(WSDL2.java:96) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java.<init>(WSDL2Java.java:187) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java.main(WSDL2Java.java:360) I think my classpath are fine here is my classpath AXISCLASSPATH=c:\axis12RC3\lib\axis.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\commons-discove ry.jar;c :\axis12RC3\lib\commons-logging.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\jaxrpc.jar;c:\axis1 2RC3\lib \saaj.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\xml-apis.jar ;c:\axis 12RC3\lib\xercesImpl.jar;%AXIS_LIB\wsdl4j.jar; AXIS_HOME=c:\axis12RC3 AXIS_LIB=c:\axis12RC3\lib CLASSPATH=c:\j2sdk1.4.2_04;c:\xmlrpc\xmlrpc.jar;csdsulibjkd1.4\sdsulibjk d14.jar; c:\xmlrpc\oracle_thin_driver.zip;c:\axis12RC3\lib\axis.jar;c:\axis12RC3\ lib\comm ons-discovery.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\commons-logging.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\ jaxrpc.j ar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\saaj.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;c:\axis12R C3\lib\x ml-apis.jar;c:\axis12RC3\lib\xercesImpl.jar;%AXIS_LIB\wsdl4j.jar;; Thanks -- Graduate Student Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University