I sent this message to the tomcat users list also because I wasn't sure where the actual problem lies--with tomcat or with the digester. Anyway, here's the problem:
I want to use the Jakarta commons digester xmlrules package to parse the xml I get from a web service I access from within a service. This means I have to include four commons jar files within the classpath tomcat uses commons-digester, commons-logging, commons-beanutils and commons-collections. I tried putting the jar files in my CLASSPATH variable, but Tomcat builds its own classpath, so when the servlet executed I got a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. Tomcat (or the servlet) couldn't find org/apache/commons/digester/xmlrules/DigesterLoader. I am using Tomcat version 4.1.24. There is a version of the commons-digester jar file that comes with that tomcat in server/lib. So I put the commons-digester.jar file in server/lib in the commons/lib directory so that Tomcat would include the jar file in its classpath. However, when I did that, Tomcat wouldn't even start--the error message then was ClassNotFoundException. The relevant part of the stack trace is included here below. What gives? It looks like the version of commons-digester.jar that comes with tomcat 4.1.24 isn't even compatible with it, but that can't be right? I suppose the bigger question, though, is how can I get Jakarta digester and tomcat 4 to play nice with each other? And how can I find out what version of *any* jar file I have when all I have is the name of the jar file? 2006-10-20 14:20:36.300 [ERROR ] main (digester.Digester) - Begin event threw exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLo ader.java:992) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLo ader.java:857) at org.apache.commons.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java :252) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:200) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1268) -- Eva Allen Consulting Software Engineer, OCLC, Inc. 6565 Frantz Rd., Dublin, OH 43017 614.764.6009 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Views contained herein are my own; they do not necessarily reflect those of my employer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]