ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet

Question

I am developing a web portal using tomcat 7 + ZK framework + axis2 for using web services. After a while I started getting this error :

SEVERE: Servlet /twigo threw load() exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:532)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:514)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:133)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1137)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1081)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5027)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5314)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Maybe axis2 1.6 isn't compatible with tomcat 7 ?

Solution 1

This is a strange problem, even after adding all the jars of Apache Axis2 annoying exception is still there. Required class AxisAdminServlet is not present in Axis2 libs(1.6.1 in my case). Since its nomore there in framework itself i guess its no longer required, so i removed it from my code.

You can get rid of this inside web.xml where call is placed for the servlet.

Solution 2

There may be below entry in the web.xml

<display-name>Apache-Axis Admin Servlet Web Admin</display-name>
    <servlet-name>AxisAdminServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>100</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>AxisAdminServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/axis2-admin/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

If so, please remove this entry from web.xml which solves the problem.

Regards, Kishore

Comments

[kartshan]

Thanks this helped me.

[Asif]

Just in case if someone needs to have AxisAdminServlet, you can build a jar file from axis2-1.x.x\webapp\WEB-INF, it contains the required servlet