Class path problem with POJO web service

Question

I created a simple web service manually:
- created java class;
- generated web-services.xml
- coplied web-services.xml into my *.war file, WEB-INF directory.
This works fine as long as the class that implements web service is in the war file in folder /WEB-INF/classes.
I need the java class to be in one of the jar files in the folder /WEB-INF/lib. This does not work. I am getting class not found error.
I tried to modify <java-class> element to specify the jar file (the same way as ejb-link element does):
<java-class class-name="my.jar#my.Service" name="MyService">
</java-class>
This did not help either. How can I specify name of POJO class in the *.jar file?
Thanks,
Serguei

Answer 1

PATH and CLASSPATH are different. PATH is an environment variable used by windows to locate programs. CLASSPATH is an environment variable that java uses to find classes.
You need to create a new environment variable. The easiest way to do it in win2k (and to keep it after you reboot) is to do this: right click on "My Computer" and click "Properties" (or go to "System" in the control panel). Click on the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Enviroment Variables..." button. In that window, add a system variable by clicking "New..." in the bottom half. Variable Name: "CLASSPATH" Variable Value: ".;J:\Skribe\Tools\mysql-connector-java-3.0.0-beta\mysql-connector-java-3.0.0-beta-bin.jar;J:\jakarta-log4j-1.2.6\dist\lib\log4j-1.2.6.jar"
You have to make sure that ".;" is the first thing on the line. This tells java to look in the current active directory first for classes it doesn't recognize, then in locations you specify. By default, it just looks in the current directory.
Hope this helps.