3076506 - Axis Adapter raises error "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/aii/adapter/axis/ra/handlers/soap/MTOMProcessingHandler : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed"

You are trying to use the Axis Adapter within your SAP Process Integration or SAP Process Orchestration system.

However the same is constantly failing with error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/aii/adapter/axis/ra/handlers/soap/MTOMProcessingHandler : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed

If you capture an XPI Inspector trace while reproducing the issue, you can see the following exception:

EXCEPTION]
javax.ejb.EJBException: nested exception is: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/aii/adapter/axis/ra/handlers/soap/MTOMProcessingHandler : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/aii/adapter/axis/ra/handlers/soap/MTOMProcessingHandler : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed
at com.sap.engine.services.ejb3.runtime.impl.RequestInvocationContext.proceedFinal(RequestInvocationContext.java:99)
at com.sap.engine.services.ejb3.runtime.impl.AbstractInvocationContext.proceed(AbstractInvocationContext.java:166)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/aii/adapter/axis/ra/handlers/soap/MTOMProcessingHandler : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed
at com.sap.aii.adapter.axis.ra.providers.AFUtils.createXIMessage(AFUtils.java:580)
at com.sap.aii.adapter.axis.modules.AFAdapterCore.processXIOutboundRequest(AFAdapterCore.java:339)
at com.sap.aii.adapter.axis.modules.AFAdapterCore.process(AFAdapterCore.java:171)
at com.sap.aii.adapter.axis.modules.AFAdapterBean.process(AFAdapterBean.java:85)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.sap.engine.services.ejb3.runtime.impl.RequestInvocationContext.proceedFinal(RequestInvocationContext.java:47)
... 92 more
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
... 101 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: User-specified log class 'com.sap.aii.axis.log.SAPLogger' cannot be found or is not useable.
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:804)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:541)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:292)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:671)
at com.sap.aii.adapter.axis.ra.handlers.soap.MTOMProcessingHandler.<clinit>(MTOMProcessingHandler.java:34)
... 101 more

• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP Process Integration

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