Someone else suggested that earlier. That didn't work (I figure there's something wrong with my environment--I know it should have worked) but I put it in shared/lib for now and that did work.
Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Carman Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:37 PM To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: FW: Using tomcat with commons-digester in commons/lib won't work Have you tried putting it within your WEB-INF/lib directory? On 10/20/06, Allen,Eva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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(StandardClass > Lo > ader.java:992) > at > org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClass > Lo > ader.java:857) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.ja > va > :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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
