Symptom
- Getting Http 404 upon accessing the Restful webservice url
- biprws folder does exist in <SAP_Install_Dir>/tomcat/Webapps/ and <SAP_Install_Dir>/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/warfiles/webapps/
- Upon retrying redeploying biprws we receive the below entries in std.err traces :
Failed to instantiate SLF4J LoggerFactory
Reported exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Level
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.bind(LoggerFactory.java:150)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:124)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:417)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:362)Jul 03, 2026 8:17:30 PM org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplicationContext
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Level
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.Level
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1412)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1220)Jul 03, 2026 8:17:30 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener]
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Level
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.Level
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Environment
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.x
- All supported versions of Windows
Product
Keywords
biprws, 404, HTTP 404, Not Found, SLF4J LoggerFactory, log4j, log4j-core, log4j-api, missing JAR, SAP BusinessObjects SAP BO, BI Platform RESTful Web Service, Tomcat web.xml corrupted, NoClassDefFoundError , KBA , BI-BIP-INS , Installation, Updates, Upgrade, Patching , Problem
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