ClassNotFoundException when starting tomcat

Question

I'm trying to make a REST web service.

My project looks like :

The traceback is :

8 déc. 2011 18:31:36 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production     environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\MyEclipse\Common\binary\com.sun.java.jdk.win32.x86_1.6.0.013\bin;C:\Program Files\MyEclipse\Common\plugins\com.genuitec.eclipse.easie.tomcat.myeclipse_9.0.0.me201109141806\tomcat\bin
8 déc. 2011 18:31:36 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initialisation de Coyote HTTP/1.1 sur http-8080
8 déc. 2011 18:31:36 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 394 ms
8 déc. 2011 18:31:37 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Démarrage du service Catalina
8 déc. 2011 18:31:37 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.13
8 déc. 2011 18:31:37 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Déploiement de l'archive Test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war de l'application web
8 déc. 2011 18:31:37 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile
INFO: validateJarFile(C:\Documents and Settings\Naya\Workspaces\MyEclipse 10\.metadata\.me_tcat\webapps\Test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT\WEB-INF\lib\javax.servlet-3.0.1.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
8 déc. 2011 18:31:37 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile
INFO: validateJarFile(C:\Documents and Settings\Naya\Workspaces\MyEclipse 10\.metadata\.me_tcat\webapps\Test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT\WEB-INF\lib\servlet-api-2.5.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
8 déc. 2011 18:31:38 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: La servlet Test JAX-RS REST Servlet est marqué comme indisponible
8 déc. 2011 18:31:38 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
GRAVE: Error loading WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
  repositories:
    /WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader@19e8329
 com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1358)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1204)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1083)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:981)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4042)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4348)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)
    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:597)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)

My web.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" 
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
  <display-name></display-name> 
  <servlet>
    <display-name>Test JAX-RS REST Servlet</display-name>
    <servlet-name>Test JAX-RS REST Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
    </servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Test JAX-RS REST Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Can anyone help me ?

Answer 1

I have encountered the same issue. I was using Version 1.12.

I could not find the class com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer in the "jersey-server-1.12.jar" or "jersey-core-1.12.jar" as suggested in some other forums.

You can easily check this in Eclipse, when you add it to the Build Path and notice that you do not have that class in the above mentioned jar files.

I searched around and found the following:

It looks like the class com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer is in a different jar file ("jersey-servlet-1.12.jar").

I did not find any documentation about this. However having this file in my WEB-INF/lib resolved this issue.

Hope this helps.