java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is plaguing me

[gr...@convergys.com]

I have been struggling w/ this for a few days, and have been to the
archives and back, and haven't found a solution.  Perhaps someone here has
run into this problem and can point out to me where I went wrong.

I am using tomcat 4.1.12 as my server, and i have placed axis 1.0 under the
webapps folder, like so...

webapps
     axis
         WEB-INF
               classes
               lib

In the lib directory I placed all the jar files that my service is reliant
upon.  However...when I execute a service from a jsp, I find errors telling
me that objects that I placed in the lib directory can't be found.

The only way I have solved it is to place the specific jars in the
classpath, but that defeats the purpose of this architecture.


The specific jar that I'm struggling w/ at the moment is the jdom.jar.  I
created a simple jsp page where I create a jdom Document, just as a sanity
check that the webapp can see it, and that goes fine....  Then I execute
the soap service, and I get an error telling me that org/jdom/Document
cannot be found.

Here is a copy of the test code I am using, in case it helps solve the
problem, and I will aslo provide a snippet of the error.


<%        Object ret=null;
          try {
             try{
                      org.jdom.Document doc = new Document();
                      System.out.println( "**************  " + doc.getClass
().getName() + "  **************" );
               }
               catch(Exception e){System.out.println("Can't print the
document " + e.toString());}
              //String endpoint
="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CTPortal";
              String endpoint
="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CTPortal";

             Service  service = new Service();
             Call     call    = (Call) service.createCall();

             call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
             call.setOperationName( "login" );

             ret = call.invoke( new Object[] { "0", "ctrd", new Integer(92)
} );
             System.out.println(ret.getClass().getName());
             System.out.println("Sent 'Hello!', got '" + ret + "'");
         } catch (Exception e) {
             //e.printStackTrace();
             System.out.println("Damn Dirty Error");
         }
%>



The error:
- Exception:
AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.userException
 faultString: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 faultActor: null
 faultDetail:
        stackTrace: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
java.lang.NoCla
ssDefFoundError: org/jdom/Document
        at cvg.borg.services.CTPortal.login(CTPortal.java:38)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.j
ava:372)
        at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider
.java:292)


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