I have actually figured this problem out, but it took me days, so I thought I would paste my solution here to aide others.
I am using Fedora 11, and in Eclipse I tried adding a Tomcat 6 server and starting it. I would get the following error:
'Starting Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost' has encountered a problem.
Server Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost failed to start.
Then in my console I got the following:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.<clinit>(Bootstrap.java:54)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:336)
... 1 more
Could not find the main class: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap. Program will exit.
I'll post the solution in an answer below.
I found the solution here: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/391114-tomcat6-eclipse-not-working.html
- In Eclipse, Open the "Server" tab.
- Double click on the "Tomcat6" entry to see the configuration.
- Then click on the "Open launch configuration" link in the "General information" block.
- In the dialog, select the "Classpath" tab.
- Click the "Add external jar" button.
- Select the file "/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/tomcat-juli.jar"
- Close the dialog.
- Start tomcat 6 from Eclipse.
Hopefully posting it here will help some poor soul.