What might cause this execption?

Question

trying to run a simple client, almost stright from the Axis User Guide and I get is error every time. It has no problem building the program but running it is another story. What might be causing it?
//simple client
import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
public class TestClient {
     public static void main(String [] args) {
          try {
               String endpoint =
               "https://server.com";
               Service  service = new Service();  // this is line 11 from exception
               Call  call = (Call) service.createCall();
               call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
               call.setOperationName(new QName("server.com", "Login"));
               String[] ret = (String[]) call.invoke( new Object[] { "1000005", "1111" } );
               System.out.println("Sent Message, recieved :");
               for(int i = 0; i < ret.length; i++){
                    System.out.println(ret);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.err.println(e.toString());
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.commons.lo
gging.LogFactory
at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.class$(LogFactory.java:4
5)
at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory$1.run(LogFactory.java:45
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.getLogFactory(LogFactory
.java:41)
at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.<clinit>(LogFactory.java
:33)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.BasicHandler.<clinit>(BasicHandler.java:43)
at org.apache.axis.client.Service.getAxisClient(Service.java:104)
at org.apache.axis.client.Service.<init>(Service.java:113)
at TestClient.main(TestClient.java:11)

Answer 1

it's in there.... still does not work.. uhm...thanks for the idea thoguh
You don't set a CLASSPATH with Tomcat. It ignores
your system CLASSPATH if you have one, so if that's
what you mean by "in there", that's not helping you.
You need to find the JAR with that .class file in it
and put it in TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib. That way every
context running on that Tomcat server will see it.
If that's what you have, then I don't know why you're
getting this error.
%He's beyond that - just didn't have commons-logging.jar, now he does.
OP - I don't know about your next problem, but it's only a "warning" - looks like if you're not trying to do attachments with the API, you'll be fine. Otherwise, apparently you'll need some J2EE jar in your run-time classpath - is that happening on the client side, or the server side (shouldn't be the latter, as it is running in a J2EE container, so I wouldn't expect it to complain about not finding those classes)