Hi when I try to compile tomcat from source I get a NoClassDefFoundException for org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.ObjectCreate. Looking in the Source of XmlMapper there is an inner class defined called ObjectCreate - but no public class ObjectCreate which should recide in an own File called ObjectCreate.java. Looking at the binary distribution I find a class ObjectCreate in the jar archive - so for me there are two possibillities what happened: - some java compiler will generate an ObjectCreate class from the inner class definition which from my opinion is against the java specifications - perhaps you have forgotten to distribute an own java file for this ObjectCreate class. Could you please tell me if I am using a wrong compiler or if there is missing a source file. Yours sincerely Torsten Glunde