[jackcollins]

I’m running into a problem deploying a WAR file the includes dependent project(s) in JAR files. The JAR files appear in the WEB-INF/lib directory but don’t seem to be on the class path. When starting the webapp under tomcat 5.5 I get the following error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ‘SessionFactory’ defined in URL [file:/usr/java/apache-tomcat-5.5.12/webapps/siteAdmin/WEB-INF/classes/siteAdmin-data.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [com/company/catalog/model] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [com/company/catalog/model] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getURL(ClassPathResource.java:180)…………..

Any thoughts?

[Riyad Kalla]

I take it that com.company.catalog.model package is from the JAR file deployed in your WEB-INF/lib directory?

[jackcollins]

Yes. It is packaged into a JAR called catalog.jar in WEB-INF/lib

[Riyad Kalla]

Jack,
If you open the JAR and see a root directory of “com” then the JAR is correctly packaged and this is most likely a class loader issue. Have you tried, in some normal class, accessing a calss from within the JAR and printing it to the console just to see if it could be found?

e.g.: System.out.println(SomeClassFromModelPackage.class);

[jackcollins]

It turned out to be Spring configuration issue. When configuring org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean I needed to provide “mappingJarLocations” rather than “mappingDirectoryLocations”

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