jars on classpath within webservice?

Hi. I've created a web service using apache axis. I am having a problem getting my external classes on the classpath of my web service.

import com.mycompany.MyClass

publicclass MyService{

static{

MyClass.initialize();

}

public String myServiceMethod(){

...

...

}

}

When i deploy on weblogic 9.2 i get:

weblogic.application.ModuleException: [HTTP:101216]Servlet:"AxisServlet" failed to preload on startup in Web application:"mywar.war".

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)

at org.apache.ws.java2wsdl.SchemaGenerator.<init>(SchemaGenerator.java:121)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.util.Utils.fillAxisService(Utils.java:306)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.ServiceBuilder.populateService(ServiceBuilder.java:339)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentEngine.populateService(DeploymentEngine.java:340)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentEngine.loadServicesFromUrl(DeploymentEngine.java:181)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.WarBasedAxisConfigurator.loadServices(WarBasedAxisConfigurator.java:264)

at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContextFactory.createConfigurationContext(ConfigurationContextFactory.java:74)

at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.initConfigContext(AxisServlet.java:486)

at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.init(AxisServlet.java:406)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:276)

at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)

at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:68)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:504)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1698)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1675)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1595)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:2734)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:892)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:336)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204)

at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:117)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204)

at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:26)

at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:641)

at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)

at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:229)

at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:80)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:565)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:136)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:104)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:320)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:815)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1222)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:433)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:161)

at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeli

verer.java:181)

at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.

java:12)

at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:

67)

at weblogic.work.ServerWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(ServerWorkManagerImpl.java:518)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:181)

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class Not found : com.mycompany.MyClass

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentClassLoader.findClass(DeploymentClassLoader.java:88)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)

at com.mycompany.MyService.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

... 52 more

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class Not found : com.mycompany.MyClass

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentClassLoader.findClass(DeploymentClassLoader.java:84)

... 56 more

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:894)

at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:336)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204)

at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60)

Truncated. see log filefor complete stacktrace

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class Not found : com.mycompany.MyClass

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentClassLoader.findClass(DeploymentClassLoader.java:84)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)

at com.mycompany.MyService.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

Truncated. see log filefor complete stacktrace

I believe the error is occurring when Axis loads the service class and the static block is executed. ie - <clinit>.

MyClass lives in a packaged jar - myjar.jar. How do I get myjar.jar on the runtime classpath of MyService?

I've tried placing myjar.jar in the WEB-INF/lib folder of the axis war, as well as packaging it in the .aar of MyService

Thanks!

[8260 byte] By [dudleydawsona] at [2007-11-27 4:35:00]
# 1
bump.anybody have any ideas on this?
dudleydawsona at 2007-7-12 9:44:59 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...