I have a servlet that works fine by itself, and another class that works fine by itself. However, when I try to create a new instance of the class using the servlet and access a method in the class such as:
Servlet code
Object a = new Object()
a.method
the server returns 500.
Is there some security aspect to calling classes from servlets that may be causing this?
Thanks for the replies which have tracked the problem down.
The Server log says:
NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/jdbc/driver/OracleDriver
This class is needed by the class being called by the servlet.
The missing class is in a jar file which is put on the classpath when running the class in a standalone environment. I don't know if it's possible to put this jar on the classpath in the Server environment.
However a solution is to explode the jar file and put the exploded classes in the WEB-INF/classes of the Server. The only disadvantage is that they get wiped out every time I re-deploy the application war file.
