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!

