ClassNotFoundException for class in wsif.jar at Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()

[mirpuri <mi...@myway.com>]

Hello,

I am using wsif wsif-2.0.1_IB3 to connect to a webservice to create user
accounts. Everything works great in Eclipse.

When I deployed my jars (application jars, wsif and dependencies) to
weblogic 8.1 sp6, I run into the following error: 

org.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Unable to create new mapper; nested exception
is:
        java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.wsif.mapping.WSIFDefaultMapper
.............
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.wsif.mapping.WSIFDefaultMapper
        at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:199)
        at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.findClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:61)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
        at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:224)
        at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:41)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219)
        at
org.apache.wsif.mapping.WSIFMapperFactory.newMapper(WSIFMapperFactory.java:100)


The WSIFMapperFactory.class exists in wsif.jar file and makes a call to
newMapper but is unable to load org.apache.wsif.mapping.WSIFDefaultMapper
that is in the same wsif.jar file.
	
public static WSIFMapper newMapper() throws WSIFException {
		return newMapper(false);
	}


The line that it fails on is  Class c =
Class.forName(mapperClassNameBuffer.toString(), true,
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
from the following code snippet in WSIFMapperFactory.class file

try {
                Class c =
                    Class.forName(
                        mapperClassNameBuffer.toString(),
                        true,
                        Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
                return (WSIFMapper) c.newInstance();
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnf) {
            	throw new WSIFException("Unable to create new mapper", cnf);
            } catch (Exception e) {
            	throw new WSIFException("Unable to create new mapper", e);
            }

Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried using Class c =
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(mapperClassNameBuffer.toString());
but it had the same effect.

Again, the same code path works great standalone in Eclipse.

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

Thank you!
Sunil
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