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From: "Mark Koscak" <mark@logichip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: build script is unable to find lang object?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:49:25 +1100
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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, unfortunately :(,  I think I'm going to go down the path of a different
jdk and complete reinstall of Tomcat.

It's the only thing I can think of as to why a previous installation (on my
other machine) would work and the current one does not.

Cheers
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Weiss <steve@bonampak.org>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: build script is unable to find lang object?


> Do you have $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar in your classpath somewhere?
>
> -S
>
> Mark Koscak wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Following on from my earlier discussion. I have installed Tomcat3.2 and
> > am running jdk1.3. I can run the example Servlets and JSP's provided.
> >
> > With thanks to Setve Weiss, I have managed to compile my individual java
> > class Hello.java provided as a part of the sample application.
> >
> > However now when I attempt to use the build script I get the following
> > error message. (The build.xml script has been modified for the current
> > project). I read once that Tomcat does not work well with jdk1.3 could
> > this be my problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > [root@netdev vesselenq]# ./build
> >
> > Couldn't find or load essential class `java/lang/Object'
> > java.lang.NoClassDefFou
> >
> > ndError java/lang/Object
> >
> > ./btest: line 13: 4828 Aborted (core dumped) java -classpath $C
> >
> > P:$CLASSPATH org.apache.tools.ant.Main \ -Dtomcat.home=$TOMCAT_HOME "$@"
> >
> > Here are some of my settings...
> >
> > I have set the CLASSPATH to include
> >
> > /usr/local/jdk1.3
> >
> > /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/src
> >
> > /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/lib/servlet.jar
> >
> > /usr/local/jdk1.3/lib
> >
> > /usr/local/jdk1.3/lib/tools.jar
> >
> > The build script...
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > # Identify the custom class path components we need
> >
> >
CP=$TOMCAT_HOME/classes:$TOMCAT_HOME/lib/ant.jar:$TOMCAT_HOME/lib/xml.jar
> >
> > CP=$CP:$TOMCAT_HOME/lib/jasper.jar:$TOMCAT_HOME/lib/servlet.jar
> >
> > CP=$CP:$TOMCAT_HOME/lib/webserver.jar
> >
> > # Execute ANT to perform the requested build target
> >
> > java -classpath $CP:$CLASSPATH org.apache.tools.ant.Main \
> > -Dtomcat.home=$TOMCAT
> >
> > _HOME "$@"
> >
> > #java -classpath $CP:$CLASSPATH org.apache.tools.ant.Main
> >
> > If you need any more information on any other system settings, let me
> > know and I shall provide the information.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Mark
>
>
> --
> "If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if
> you just drank gin straight from the bottle."  - Garrison Keillor