Problem with <packaging>war</packaging>: javax/activation/DataSource not found!

[Thibault.B]

Hi everybody,

I wrote a WS using spring-ws which work perfectly using SOAPUI or a java client when deployed on my local TOMCAT server but I have a problem, it works perfectly only if my pom.xml doesn't contains

<packaging>war</packaging>

, if I try to add it, I got this:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource

Does anybody knows why I got this exception?

It is a real problem because at end I must deploy the WS war on a server...

Thanks for reading

[Thibault.B]

Got it fixed, in my pom.xml (this is a maven project), I have to specify the scope of the javax.activation dépendency:

<dependency>
	<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
	<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
	<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

without the scope Runtime, you got a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource with Tomcat Server...