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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by William Brogden <wb...@bga.com> on 2000/10/10 00:51:04 UTC
Re: Classloader Problem?
Julian Templeman wrote:
>
> Hi all...
>
> I'm trying to install Tomcat 3.1 on a Windows NT4 machine running
> JDK1.3. This has worked fine on many machines before, but on one
> machine in particular I'm getting a strange crash.
>
> When Tomcat starts, I get the following error:
>
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org/apache/tomcat/service/http/HttpConnectionHandler
> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> <snip>
> at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:143)
> at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163)
>
> The strange part is that I know the classpath is correctly set,
> because Tomcat has done it in the tomcat.bat file, and the
> HttpConnectionHandler class is definitely in the right place in the
> webserver.jar file.
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing this will be gratefully received.
>
> julian
>
I suspect that is due to a JAR file conflict - possibly a JAR
file left over from a JSDK installation.
WBB
Re: Classloader Problem?
Posted by William Brogden <wb...@bga.com>.
Julian Templeman wrote:
>
> William said...
>
> >I suspect that is due to a JAR file conflict - possibly a JAR
> >file left over from a JSDK installation.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but... I'm running with nothing else on the
> classpath, and no Java directories on the path, either. The search
> continues...
>
> julian
>
Remember, with Java 1.2, JAR files in the standard extensions
directory
are automatically on the classpath - it was a jsdk.jar in
D:\JDK1.2\jre\lib\ext
that tripped me up for days.
--
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Re: Classloader Problem?
Posted by Julian Templeman <ju...@groucho.demon.co.uk>.
William said...
>I suspect that is due to a JAR file conflict - possibly a JAR
>file left over from a JSDK installation.
Thanks for the suggestion, but... I'm running with nothing else on the
classpath, and no Java directories on the path, either. The search
continues...
julian
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