NoClassDefFoundError in web application running on Tomcat 7

Question

I have web application written in Java using gucie-servlet framework being built by Maven 3. When I deploy it on Tomcat 7 container and try to access it using browser, Tomca

Answer 1

The root cause may be the maven-war-plugin has been configured as the

    
        
            true
            lib/
        
    

The above configuration is for Creating Skinny WARs which refers all war libs to the ear/lib instead.

Please try to remove all of them from the maven-war-plugin configuration. Then build and deploy to the Tomcat again.

I hope this may help.