NoClassDefFoundError

[ngo thanhson]

I got this error message when deploying a JSP: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/soap/rpc/RPCMessage

This error points to the line " gs=new GoogleSearch();" where GoogleSearch is a defined class. I tested it on my local computer and it worked well.

Do you have any idea what type of exception is this ? Thank you.

[Ben Souther]

Sounds like your app is missing a jar file.

Which jar on your local machine contains:
org/apache/soap/rpc/RPCMessage?

[Naseem Khan]

You need to set org.apache.soap.rpc.RPCMessage and other dependent classes in classpath.

One easy way is place your jar containing these classes in application lib folder.

Second import your GoogleSeearch class in jsp by page directive

<%@ page import="package1.GoogleSearch"%>

Naseem

[ngo thanhson]

It's great. It worked. I missed a jar file, so I copied it into WEB-INF/lib. Btw, why do we need a jar file because I unziped it already? I thought that I we only need the .class file inorder to call third-party class.

Thank you so much.
[ July 06, 2006: Message edited by: ngo thanhson ]

[Christophe Verré]

You may have unzipped it in the wrong place.
Anyway, you should not unzip jar files

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by ngo thanhson:
I thought that I we only need the .class file inorder to call third-party class.

If you want to extract the class, you need to make sure you put the file in the correct place (WEB-INF/classes/{full package structure}/class).

Also, that class may or may not have dependencies of it's own.
There is a good chance that those dependencies are not going to be listed in the author's documentation if they are all included in the jar file.
IOW: Unless you have a real good reason to do so, don't unpack the jar file.