Re: Finding a JAR that contains a class

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:49:31 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1004221943100.7087@urchin.earth.li>
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, laredotornado wrote:

I'm running Java 1.6 on a Tomcat 6.0.26 server. I'm getting a
ClassNotFoundException, comlpaining about
javax.validation.ValidatorFactory. What JAR file is this included in
and is there a generic web site I can visit that will tell me class- JAR
relations and download sites?


Funnily enough:

http://findjar.com/

That says:

http://findjar.com/class/javax/validation/ValidatorFactory.html

It's in geronimo-validation_1.0_spec-1.0-CR5.jar:

http://findjar.com/jar/org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-validation_1.0_spec/1.0-CR5/geronimo-validation_1.0_spec-1.0-CR5.jar.html

Which you can get from:

http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-validation_1.0_spec/1.0-CR5/geronimo-validation_1.0_spec-1.0-CR5.jar

Before you go haring off to download that, i should point out that judging
by the class and jar name, that's part of the new JSR-303 Beans Validation
framework:

http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/tutorial/doc/gircz.html

There may or may not be a vendor-specific version of it you should use in
concert with whatever app server, persistence framework, or whatever
you're using. I would guess it's an API class, though, in which case you
are almost certainly looking for something like validation-api.jar from
Sun, and not whatever that Geronimo thing above is.

tom

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