Re: [fedora-java] Fedora 9: NoClassDefFoundError (LogFactory) starting Tomcat from Fedora Eclipse

[Andrew Overholt]

Hi,

* Greg Johnson <gregjo(a)yahoo.com&gt; [2008-05-22 16:33]:
>  
>  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
>  
>  [...]
>  
>  Now here's where it got really interesting. Since it was complaining
>  about LogFactory, I located it inside
>  /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/commons-logging-api.jar
>  
>  So, just for grins, I unjar'ed the contents of:
>  /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar
>  and
>  /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/commons-logging-api.jar
>  Then I jar'ed all of the contents of those two jar files back into:
>  /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar
>  
>  And now I can launch Tomcat from Fedora Eclipse just fine.
>  This is obviously a classpath issue....but whose? 
This sounds like something is different with the packaging of the tomcat
jars and how the Sysdeo plugin expects them to be.  You should file a
bug against the tomcat package to track this, but you could also email
the JPackage project since the tomcat RPMs in Fedora come from there
(AFAIK).  In fact, I recall reading something on jpackage-discuss about
tomcat jar contents a few months ago ... perhaps this is related.

HTH,

Andrew