Try putting the axis jar files directly into tomcat/common/lib (along with xerces, if it's not already there)
That's how I got it to work. Newman -----Original Message----- From: James Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 April, 2002 10:56 AM To: Axis Users Subject: XML Parsers and Classloading in Tomcat Hi, I am having terrible trouble getting Axis up and running. I *know* my problem must be related to class loading in Tomcat, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on, so I hope somebody here can help me. I am running Tomcat 3.3a on a Win2000 machine, and am attempting to use Axis Beta 1. I have followed the installation instructions as follows: 1. Copied the Axis folder from the webapps folder of my Axis download into the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory. 2. Downloaded the latest Xerces 2 distribution and copied xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar into the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/ directory. The contents of my tomcat lib directories are as follows: TOMCAT_HOME/lib/container: crimson.jar, facade22.jar, jasper.jar, tomcat_modules.jar, tomcat_util.jar, xalan.jar TOMCAT_HOME/lib/common: connector_util.jar, core_util.jar, etomcat.jar, jasper-runtime.jar, servlet.jar, tomcat_core.jar TOMCAT_HOME/lib/apps: EMPTY When I start Tomcat and point my browser to "http://127.0.0.1:8080/axis/servlet/AdminServlet"; I get the following stack trace: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:486) at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader12.defineClassCompat(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader.loadClassInternal1(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader12$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader12.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:253) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.getServlet(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.preInit(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.init(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) I reckon the XML parsing classes are not loaded correctly somewhere, but I dont know how to get around this - can anybody please help me?? Thanks already, James
