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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I want to import java packages and java classes to use in my
jsp pages.  Here’s what I did:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Create a module for my site<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Create a folder called
     “lib” and a folder called “classes” under that
     module<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Created 2 export points to map
     from those 2 folders to $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\opencms\WEB-INF\lib and
     $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\opencms\WEB-INF\classes<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Upload all my java classes into
     the “classes” folder and jar files into the “lib”
     folder in the opencms VFS<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Publish my project<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So the problem is that the java class loader can find the
java classes I put in the “classes” folder, but isn’t able to
locate a class file from the jar, resulting in a ClassDefNotFound error. 
The jar file looks to have been copied to the file system upon publish, and
upon checking the contents of the jar, all java classes are there.  Did I
miss a step somewhere?  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Jon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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