cannot find Action class

[Liz Brown]

When I deploy my application on weblogic, it gives that it's not able to find Action my action class. What may be the reason?

[Marc Peabody]

Could you copy/paste the exact text? thx

[Liz Brown]

Here' s the server log:

005-01-21 18:01:01,703 WARN [ExecuteThread: '10' for queue: 'default'] authentication.AuthenticationFilterBase (AuthenticationFilterBase.java:105) - doFilter exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/struts/action/Action
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/struts/action/Action
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:488)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:106)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:401)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:162)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:287)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:41)
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationClass(RequestUtils.java:207)
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationInstance(RequestUtils.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionCreate(RequestProcessor.java:326)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:268)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1094)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:437)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:20)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
at com.imany.foundation.webapp.authentication.AuthenticationFilterBase.doFilter(AuthenticationFilterBase.java:96)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:5632)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.runAs(SecurityServiceManager.java:685)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3213)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2555)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:251)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:219)

[Marc Peabody]

Is struts.jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory?

[Liz Brown]

i am not using tomcat. I am using weblogic 7. I am creating jar and then war.
I know in tomcat there's a web-inf/lib where we place struts.jar and all struts jar files. However, what's equivalent in weblogic when we create jar and the deploy war. where should all struts.jar files go?

[Carol Enderlin]

For war/web application libraries weblogic also uses WEB-INF/lib, check out bea's documentation.

Starting with WebLogic Server version 8.1 there's also APP-INF/lib in the ear for libraries used by the whole application. Check out WebLogic Server Application Classloading.

[somkiat puisungnoen]

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/struts/action/Action
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)

please check web.xml file .

you have value in load-on-startup tag = 1 ro not ?