no bugs..just ...'undocumented features'
glad you found the solution! Martin __________ > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:51:08 -0700 > Subject: Re: NoClassDefFoundError using catalina ant deploy task > From: catph...@catphive.net > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > > I investigated more and found the solution... It seems like a doc bug in > that the tutorial doesn't tell you everything you need to do to get deploy > to work. > > tomcat-util.jar needs to be placed in ~/.ant/lib. The tutorial says to > place catalina-ant.jar there, but doesn't mention tomcat-util.jar. > > The user needs the manager-script role for deploy to succeed. The tutorial > doesn't mention this. > > Overall the appdev tutorial is pretty problematic because it doesn't really > include a complete example and seems to have kind of random organization. > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Brendan Miller <catph...@catphive.net>wrote: > > > I was going through the tomcat docs and trying to use the default > > build.xml file provided by the appdev tutorial to deploy my war to tomcat. > > > > Example build.xml: > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/appdev/build.xml.txt > > > > However, when I use the deploy task I always get > > a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > org/apache/tomcat/util/codec/binary/Base64 error. > > > > I've copied the relevant code here: > > https://gist.github.com/catphive/9845270 > > > > I've verified that tomcat-util.jar, which contains Base64.cass, is on the > > path, compile.classpath, passed to taskdef. > > > > I'm just trying to do a basic tomcat tutorial, and getting this deploy > > task to run is hanging me up. Any ideas what could be doing wrong? Are > > these deploy tasks broken somehow? > > > > Brendan > >
