Tomcat 7 not loading classes/jars in Web-Inf

Hello -

I'm on Mac OS X, using Tomcat 7. I can see the JAR libraries in the {webapp}/WEB-INF/lib directory fine

However I am still getting the cursed java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

Even if I then manual delete the .jar file the error remains with same stacktrace so to my mind it appears the classloaders are not kicking in correctly?

Can anyone please point me in the correct direction.

Many thanks

posting the error stack strace might help a little bit.

Note that a "NoClassDefFound" exception is something entirely different than a ClassNotFoundException!

It could mean that the jar file that contains the missing class is damaged; make sure you can do a "jar tf ..." on it.

Sachin Pachari wrote:posting the error stack strace might help a little bit.

Thanks here it is:

Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:568)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:455)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:911)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:840)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:143)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:111)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

The class can be found, just not initialized. That means that a RuntimeException or Error occurs when the class is loaded and initialized. The most occurring problems are a native library file that fails to be load, or a dependency that's missing.