Axis and NoClassDefFoundError

Question

We have software that was developed using Axis to connect to a webservice. It
works fine. However, when we add the software to another system that is run under
weblogic 5.1 we get the following error when the axis classes are trying to be
invoked:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/reflect/InvocationHandler
Any ideas as to why this would happen?
Thanks,
Tim

Answer 1

Hi Tim,
I don't really follow what you are saying. Are you saying that you are receiving
these exceptions in an instance of WLS 5.1, when you deploy the Apache Axis stuff
in it? If so, here's the JAVACLASSPATH and WEBLOGICCLASSPATH I use:
JAVACLASSPATH=d:\bea\WLS\5.1\lib\weblogic510sp9boot.jar;c:\beasys\licenses\WLS;d
:\bea\WLS\5.1\classes\boot;d:\bea\jdk130\lib\rt.jar
WEBLOGICCLASSPATH=c:\apache\xalan\2.2.0\bin\xerces.jar;c:\apache\xalan\2.2.0\bin
\xalan.jar;d:\bea\WLS\5.1\lib\weblogic510sp9.jar;d:\bea\WLS\5.1\lib\persistence\
WebLogic_RDBMS.jar;d:\bea\WLS\5.1\lib\weblogic-tags-510.jar;d:\bea\WLS\5.1\class
es;d:\bea\WLS\5.1\lib\weblogicaux.jar;.\webservices;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\c
ommons-logging.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.4.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB
-INF\lib\axis.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\l
ib\saaj.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\tt-bytecode.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\li
b\wsdl4j.jar;.\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\xmlsec.jar
I copied the Apache Axis stuff to a directory under my WLS 5.1 install, so I can
modify things without affecting the original files. My startWebLogic.cmd is in:
d:\bea\WLS\5.1\apache
The weblogic.properties file for my server is in:
d:\bea\WLS\5.1\apache\webapps
Here's all I have in there:
######## START OF weblogic.properties #########
weblogic.httpd.webApp.axis=webapps/axis
weblogic.security.ssl.enable=true
weblogic.httpd.logFileName=../logs/axis/access.log
weblogic.httpd.logRotationType=size
weblogic.httpd.maxHttpHeaderSize=4096
weblogic.system.logFile=../logs/axis/weblogic.log
weblogic.jdbc.logFileName=../logs/axis/jdbc.log
weblogic.password.axisadmin=password
######## END OF weblogic.properties #########
The Axis web application is in exploded into:
d:\bea\WLS\5.1\apache\webapps\axis
That directory contains:
WEB-INF
index.htm
happyaxis.jsp
StockQuoteService.jws
I am able to run all the samples, and server-config.wsdd is in the WEB-INF directory.
I think I had to change code in the happyaxis.jsp, to get things to work. I have
attached it.
The d:\bea\WLS\5.1\apache\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib directory contains:
axis.jar
commons-logging.jar
jaxrpc.jar
log4j-1.2.4.jar
saaj.jar
tt-bytecode.jar
wsdl4j.jar
xmlsec.jar
Regards,
Mike Wooten
"Tim " <[email protected]> wrote:
>
We have software that was developed using Axis to connect to a webservice.
It
works fine. However, when we add the software to another system that
is run under
weblogic 5.1 we get the following error when the axis classes are trying
to be
invoked:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
java/lang/reflect/InvocationHandler
Any ideas as to why this would happen?
Thanks,
Tim[happyaxis.jsp]