NoClassDefFoundError: ServletContext using jdk1.4.1 for Axis clients

[Mahalakshmi Ananthanarayanan]

I would like to know the most earliest Name,Date and Description of the build , in which fix for bug # 14457  is available .Kindly  reply  at your earliest.       Pointer http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14457   Bug #   14457   Description of  the bug  Axis clients that run without "servlet.jar" get NoClassDefFoundError: ServletContext when using jdk1.4.1. This didn't happen with jdk1.3.1. It looks like the method EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory has specific handling code for NoClassDefFoundErrors at line 227 (Axis 1.0), but using 1.4, the error occurs slightly early, at line 214 where there is no handler. I presume this is due to a difference in class loading in 1.4. A work-around for 1.4 appears to be to include "servlet.jar" along with any client code. Here's the stack for the failure. Using 1.3, the handler at line 224 would have just logged the problem. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContext [Loaded java.lang.StackTraceElement from /home/billg/jdk1.4.1/jre/lib/rt.jar] at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1627) at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:1746) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:1233) at org.apache.commons.discovery.tools.ClassUtils.findPublicStaticMethod (ClassUtils.java:112) at org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory (EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:214) at org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.access$300 (EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:92)   Regards,   Mahalakshmi .