No class found - org apache tomcat util SystemLogHandler

[derrick robertson]

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/util/log/SystemLogHandler
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1610)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1922)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:278)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:249)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:406)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.launcher.ChildMain.run(ChildMain.java:269)
Does anybody know how to resolve this problem?
cheers del!

[GeofferyR Durham]

Have you set your CLASSPATH so that the server knows where to locate tomcat.jar. tomcat.jar is in the bin folder of the tomcat directory. It looks like it was the same problem I was having, in a different context though.