Adding Valve entry in Tomcat.sar conf/server.xml throws exce

[jwisetech]

The following entry was working fine with 4.0.1sp1, but with 4.0.2 I am getting the following exception.

Valve addition to server.xml:

<Valve className="flashgateway.gateway.TomcatValve"/>

Exception thrown with 4.0.2 (partial)

2005-06-08 14:56:33,522 ERROR [org.apache.commons.digester.Digester] Begin event threw error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/Request
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2328)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2640)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:321)...

Other than Tomcat50 being bumped to Tomcat55, has something else drastically changed that would / could cause this? The jar that contains the valve class is located in the SAR directory so why the NoClassDefFoundError? The internal classes used by the Valve class is basic HttpSession stuff...

Any help would be greatly appreciated...SYSTEM IS DOWN...had to go to 4.0.2 to fix clustering problems so fallback to 4.0.1sp1 is not an option.

Thanks!!!

[starksm64]

Try recompiling your valve and you will see the Valve contract has changed. You need a new version of your valve for tc5.5.

[jwisetech]

Thanks Scott...I've been searching the javadocs and others for a deprecated list between tc5.0 and tc5.5...

Example is org.apache.catalina.HttpRequest was in 5.0 but is no longer in 5.5 (at least not in catalina.jar)...I would think release notes, etc. would mention these changes...any clues...

Thanks again for the quick response.

[starksm64]

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=402UpgradeIssues