re: Axis Startup Problem on Installation

[Scott Rossillo <sr...@mac.com>]

This problem seems to be related to Tomcat 4.0.3.  I had the same 
problem as you describe and I simply downloaded Tomcat 4.1.8 Beta and 
everything worked without a problem.


> Hi to all,
>
> Sorry to have to ask such a basic question, but I'm having trouble
> bringing up the Axis Beta 2 installation on WinNT 4, Tomcat 4.03.  The
> Tomcat servlet and JSP examples seem to work okay.  I can open
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/axis/index.html, and when I select "Validate the
> local installation's configuration", I receive the following error:
>
> type Exception report
>
> message Internal Server Error
>
> description The server encountered an internal error (Internal Server
> Status 500 Error) that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
>
> exception
>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/xml/soap/SOAPException
> 	at
> org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException
> (PageContextImpl.java:463)
> 	at org.apache.jsp.happyaxis$jsp._jspService(happyaxis$jsp.java:391)
> 	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> 	at ...
> org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
>
> root cause
>
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/soap/SOAPException
> 	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> 	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:130)
> 	at org.apache.jsp.happyaxis$jsp.classExists(happyaxis$jsp.java:44)
> 	at org.apache.jsp.happyaxis$jsp.probeClass(happyaxis$jsp.java:87)
> 	at org.apache.jsp.happyaxis$jsp.needClass(happyaxis$jsp.java:147)
> 	at org.apache.jsp.happyaxis$jsp._jspService(happyaxis$jsp.java:272)
> 	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> 	at ...
> org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
>
> When I select "View the list of deployed Web services", I receive the
> following error:
>
> type Status report (503 error)
>
> message Servlet AxisServlet is currently unavailable
>
> description The requested service (Servlet AxisServlet is currently
> unavailable) is not currently available.
>
>
> It looks like the system cannot find a basic *.jar files needed to
> process the request.
>
> Here's my %CLASSPATH%
>
> C:\tomcat\lib;
> C:\tomcat\classes;
> C:\tomcat\common\classes;
> C:\tomcat\common\lib\servlet.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\wsdl4j.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\tt-bytecode.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\xerces.jar;
> C:\tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.4.jar;
> C:\users\rdoue\java;.
>
> I'd appreciate any ideas that anyone has.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ray Doue