You also need to copy an implementation of the xml apis - such as xerces. Check the install instructions at xml.apache.org/axis/.
-prabhakar > I am trying to setup axis to work with Tomcat. > > I have copied axis directory from axis-beta2/webapps to > TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ > I have even copied the jaxrpc-ri.jar and jaxrpc-api.jar along with > axis.jar to TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib. > > Even then, whenever the Axis adminservlet is accessed, following error > gets thrown. Modifying the global > classpath also does not help. > > Modifying the setupclasspath in TOMCAT_HOME/bin to point to all these > jars also does not help. > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/soap/SOAPElement > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509) > at > java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) > at > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappCla > ssLoader.java:1631) > at > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader
