[Building Sakai] DAV - NoClassDefFoundError: LogFactory

[Matthew Buckett]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> We have a client that installed Sakai 2.9.1, and found the exception below
> when tomcat started up.

How did they install sakai? From a source build?

> Onside /sakai-2.9.1/dav/dav-server/pom.xml the commons-logging dependency
> has no version:
>
>             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
>             <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>

The versions come from a parent POM, to see the full POM being used:

$ cd sakai-2.9.1/dave/dav-server
$ mvn help:effective-pom

which will show the pom with all the information pulled in.

> The Sakai 2.9.1 that the client installed is a "out-of-the-box"
> installation, shouldn't this have been resolved in 2.9.1?

There should be a copy of commons-logging in:

tomcat/common/lib


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  Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford