Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call in gwt

Question

I am getting the following error when i try to deploy my gwt application in apache tomcat-7.0.55.I am not getting any error if i directly run it as a webapplication from eclipse.I have attched the error log for details.

Oct 17, 2014 12:40:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.UnexpectedException: Service method 'public abstract i5.dvita.webapplication.shared.WordEvolutionData i5.dvita.webapplication.client.WordService.getWordEvolution(java.lang.Integer[],int) throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException' threw an unexpected exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/ArrayUtils at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForFailure(RPC.java:389) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:579) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:265) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:305) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.doPost(AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.java:62) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.ja va:646) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogV alve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1070) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/ArrayUtils at i5.dvita.webapplication.server.WordServiceImpl.getWordEvolution(WordServiceImpl.java:63) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Me thod) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:561) ... 25 more

Answer 1

You added a jar to your class path, but you should also include it in your WEB-INF/lib folder.

In Eclipse, look in the Problems tab. There should be a warning that a resource will not be available on the server (unless you told Eclipse not to show you this warning). Right click on it and select "Copy" option.