I realized that the real exception behind the error was: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3713) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1173) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:545) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:105) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:244) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:537) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:276) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:162) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:262) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$0(ApplicationFilterChain.java:192) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:171) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:167) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
I thought the existence of webservices-rt.jar in the shared/lib directory of the tomcat installation should take care of this exception, is this correct? Thanks in advance again 2009/7/15 Rafael Barrera Oro <boraf...@gmail.com> > Hello! > > I was trying to deploy a simple Web Service while following the "metro: > Building a JAX-WS Application in the Metro Environment" Metro tutorial ( > https://metro.dev.java.net/getting-started/basic.html ) and got the > following error: > > ERROR http-8180-Processor22 > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/wsit-jaxws-fromjava] > - Error configuring application listener of class > com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener > ERROR http-8180-Processor22 > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/wsit-jaxws-fromjava] > - Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s) > ERROR http-8180-Processor22 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext - > Error listenerStart > ERROR http-8180-Processor22 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext - > Context [/wsit-jaxws-fromjava] startup failed due to previous errors > > I am using tomcat 5.5 (and i should point out that i installed the Metro > binaries before i tried to follow the tutorial) > > Does this rings any bells? > > Thanks in advance! > > Rafael >