java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

[djgovins]

I am trying in my doGet code in lucene.java (in the WEB-INF/classes directory) to index some files. But it gives the following error (500 Error) at the point where I declare an analyzer.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException : org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

I have checked in my lucene-core-3.3.0.jar file and confirmed that this .class file named Analyzer.class exists. I am also properly appending this path to this jar file into the classpath variable (and then exporting it). Where could I be possibly going wrong ? Please help.

[Tolls]

Where are you deploying that jar file?
Is this a Tomcat server?

[djgovins]

Yeah, it is a tomcat6 server.
The lucene-core-3.3.0.jar file is in some random directory, that I have included in my classpath.

[Tolls]

Tomcat doesn't work like that.
The classpath is irrelevant to your webapp.
You jar needs to be deployed with your app, and will end up in the WEB-INF/lib directory. Tomcat treats that directory as the classpath for your app.

[djgovins]

Thanks a lot, it worked !!