Hi
I have searched the knowledgebase as there seems to be quite a number of questions relating to class not found exceptions. Unfortunately I do not seem to find or with a similar root cause to mine. Hence I am logging this.
I am running
Tomcat 7 with
Java 1.6.0_27.
root cause
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.AnnotationProcessor
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1523)
java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2291)
java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1743)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:279)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)