Hi I've tried all permutations with no results so I thought I write to the group for help.
I am running commons config (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/) just fine via maven and ant but when I try to run the class calling the method PropertiesConfiguration via a SOLR search component I get the following error org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler – Error for /solr/ArticlesRaw/ingest java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate at com.xyz.logic(Ingest.java:106) at com.xyz.logic.process(Runngest.java:76) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:217) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1916) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:780) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:427) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:217) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1419) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:455) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1075) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:384) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1009) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:368) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:942) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1004) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:640) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handle(BlockingHttpConnection.java:72) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.bio.SocketConnector$ConnectorEndPoint.run(SocketConnector.java:264) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:430) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:383) Following suggestions here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7651799/proper-usage-of-apache-commons-configuration/7651867#7651867 I am including the appropriate jars in solrconfig.xml <lib dir="${mvnRepository}/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.6/" regex=".*\.jar"/> <lib dir="${mvnRepository}/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2.1/" regex=".*\.jar"/> <lib dir="${mvnRepository}/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/" regex=".*\.jar"/> <lib dir="${mvnRepository}/commons-configuration/commons-configuration/1.10/" regex=".*\.jar"/> (the class is in org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate commons-collections/3.2.1 jar) I am running solr 4.7.1 Any help would be much appreciated Peyman