Bug 57558

Summary: <validator> ant task throws NoClassDefFoundError - Tomcat 8.0.18
Product: Tomcat 6 Reporter: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko>
Component: JasperAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 6.0.43   
Target Milestone: ----   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   

Description Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-10 15:39:23 UTC 
This has been reported on the users list

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201502.mbox/%3CCAHvOsHzPt9hK8iGSTfXCzCcUSMq4N0DH5o1WRzTFvW-pKdVRRg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/du5j6z54cw2pfdvz

<quote>
I'm using Tomcat 8.0.18.
I've following ant build.xml:

<import file="${tomcat.home}/bin/
catalina-tasks.xml"/>

   <target name="jspc">

    <jasper
             validateXml="false"
             uriroot="${webapp.path}"
             webXmlFragment="${webapp.path}/WEB-INF/generated_web.xml"
             outputDir="${webapp.path}/WEB-INF/src" />

  <validator path="${webapp.path}" />
...
  </target>

<jasper> task works great, but <validator> task throws
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/Globals

</quote>


Searching the jars, "org/apache/catalina/Globals.class" is in catalina.jar, which is not listed in bin/catalina-tasks.xml

I think that catalina-tasks.xml shall list all jars from ${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar, instead of naming just a few of those.  Besides catalina.jar others that are missing are *-i18n-*.jar ones.
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2015-02-10 20:35:38 UTC 
Fixed in trunk and 8.0.x for 8.0.19 onwards.
Comment 2 Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-10 21:01:28 UTC 
This is observed on 7.0.59 and current 6.0.x as well. I will backport the fix.
Comment 3 Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-10 21:02:24 UTC 
Complete sample build.xml (to be put into $CATALINA_HOME):

[[[
<project default="jspc">
  <property name="tomcat.home" location="${basedir}" />
  <property name="webapp.path" location="${basedir}/webapps/examples" />

  <import file="${tomcat.home}/bin/catalina-tasks.xml"/>

   <target name="jspc">

    <jasper
             validateXml="false"
             uriroot="${webapp.path}"
             webXmlFragment="${webapp.path}/WEB-INF/generated_web.xml"
             outputDir="${webapp.path}/WEB-INF/src" />

    <validator path="${webapp.path}" />

  </target>
</project>
]]]
Comment 4 Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-10 21:29:39 UTC 
Fixed in Tomcat 7 by r1658815 and will be in 7.0.60.
Proposed for Tomcat 6.
Comment 5 Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-10 21:35:45 UTC 
For a record:

Stacktrace in Tomcat 6 is
[[[
build.xml:15: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org
/apache/catalina/Globals
        at org.apache.catalina.ant.ValidatorTask.execute(ValidatorTask.java:95)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at ...
]]]

The line that refers the Globals class in ValidatorTask.java:

   Digester digester = DigesterFactory.newDigester(
           true, true, null, Globals.IS_SECURITY_ENABLED);
Comment 6 Konstantin Kolinko 2015-02-19 04:09:10 UTC 
Fixed in Tomcat 6 by r1660788 and will be in 6.0.44 onwards.