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Calling GF 3.1 ejbs with Tomcat : deployment error

From: Matthieu Bertin <matthieu.bertin_at_hypsoma.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:44:48 +0200

 Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create an application where a tomcat server is a EJB
client on a remote glassfish.
I've been carefully reading the FAQ and found out that using gf-client
was the way to import everything needed to call remote EJB on a
glassfish server.

So i've included, using maven, the jar - which brought out around 33MB.
of dependencies - and tried deploying it on Tomcat 6 and 7.
Tomcat 6 gave me the following when deploying:

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
    javax/servlet/ServletContainerInitializer
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
        at
    java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2818)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1159)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1647)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1526)
        at
    org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions.<init>(EmbeddedServletOptions.java:697)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.init(JspServlet.java:158)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4420)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4733)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:563)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1397)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
    sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at
    sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
        at
    org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:297)
        at
    com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:857)
        at
    com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:795)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1500)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:252)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:186)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:563)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
        at
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)
        at
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
        at
    org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
    javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1680)
        at
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1526)
        ... 46 more

How can i avoid that error ? What have i been doing wrong ?