[AXIS2-4321] Generated axis2.war gives AxisAdminServlet not found when trying to administer through web interface

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: admin console
• Environment: Linux, Sun 1.5.0_15-b04 JVM
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dennis M. Sosnoski
• Created: 23/Apr/09 10:12
• Updated: 18/Aug/09 22:08
• Resolved: 29/Apr/09 11:04

Description

After building the axis2.war (using the build.xml in the webapp directory of the distribution) and deploying to Tomcat (5.0.28) I'm unable to access the admin functions through the http://localhost:8080/axis2/axis2-admin/ link. The localhost_log shows:

2009-04-23 03:31:02 StandardContext[/axis2]Error loading WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
/WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
StandardClassLoader
delegate: true
repositories:
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/shared/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
StandardClassLoader
delegate: true
repositories:
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/classes/
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/ant.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/naming-java.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/ant-launcher.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/jsp-api.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/jasper-compiler.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/commons-pool-1.2.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/naming-common.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/commons-el.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/jasper-runtime.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/naming-resources.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/naming-factory.jar
file:/extra/tools/tomcat/common/lib/servlet-api.jar
----------> Parent Classloader:
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@12498b5

org.apache.axis2.webapp.AxisAdminServlet
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis2.webapp.AxisAdminServlet
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1340)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:964)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:687)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:535)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Issue Links

• relates to: AXIS2-4467 Incorporate AxisAdminServlet into a jar file for easy on assembling a custom WAR file.