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Deploy Issue: couldn't instantiate class

bl4cky — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:37:43 GMT

Hi, i have a problem and i dont know how to fix it: Activiti cant instantiate my class. After a short research i saw a solution which told me to include my classes inside the web-inf/lib folder but that didn't work for me. I restarted the tomcat and did everything explained here. I had working with

Re: Deploy Issue: couldn't instantiate class

frederikherema1 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:40:19 GMT

You should indeed package your classes in a jar and place it in the activiti-rest webapp's /WEB-INF/lib/ folder…

How did you package your classes? Maven?

Re: Deploy Issue: couldn't instantiate class

bl4cky — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:46:22 GMT

I used the eclipse export and created a normal Java Jar file. How can i use Maven for this?

Re: Deploy Issue: couldn't instantiate class

frederikherema1 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:59:58 GMT

Don't think it will make a difference if you create the jar using eclipse export JAR or maven.

Can check the content of the jar-file, to see if it contains all folders that correspond to the fully-qualified classname in your *bpmn20.xml file? Also, double-check that the jar is present in the location stated earlier. That's all I can think of…

What's the exact stacktrace? Is the cause a ClassNotFound or a NoClassDefFoundError?