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Tomcat 5.5<BR>
Java 1.5<BR>
jbossrules-4.0.0.12865MR3<BR>
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I have an instance of Drools running inside a webapp deployed on Tomcat. The rules have been compiled ahead of time and are loaded in with:<BR>
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InputStream is = PolicyRuntime.class.getResourceAsStream(name);<BR>
DroolsObjectInputStream in = new DroolsObjectInputStream(is);<BR>
Package p = (Package) in.readObject();<BR>
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When run outside Tomcat it loads fine, when run inside Tomcat I get:<BR>
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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/drools/base/extractors/BaseObjectClassFieldExtractor<BR>
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)<BR>
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractorFactory$ByteArrayClassLoader.defineClass(ClassFieldExtractorFactory.java:455)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractorFactory.getClassFieldExtractor(ClassFieldExtractorFactory.java:114)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractor.init(ClassFieldExtractor.java:77)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractor.&lt;init&gt;(ClassFieldExtractor.java:57)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractorCache.getExtractor(ClassFieldExtractorCache.java:35)<BR>
        at org.drools.base.ClassFieldExtractor.readResolve(ClassFieldExtractor.java:72)<BR>
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I've tried adding DroolsObjectInputStream.class.getClassLoader() , PolicyRuntime.class.getClassLoader() and Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() to the constructor of the DroolsObjectInputStream but none had any effect.<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Jesse<BR>
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