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Classnotfound exception during webservice build

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Classnotfound exception during webservice build

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The application threw an error - ClassNotFoundException when trying to build 9.3 smcfs.ear which included some EJB web services.  

     [exec] Current OS is Linux
     [exec] Executing '/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/bin/Java2WSDL.sh'
with arguments:
     [exec] '-output'
     [exec] '/app/yantra/SMCFS/tmp/webservice/META-
INF/wsdl/YIFWebService.wsdl'
     [exec] '-implClass'
     [exec] 'com.yantra.interop.services.webservices.rpc.ejb.
YIFWebServiceAdapter'
     [exec] '-style'
     [exec] 'document'
     [exec] '-use'
     [exec] 'literal'
     [exec] '-location'
     [exec] 'http://localhost:
9081/smcfswebservices/services/YIFWebService'
     [exec] '-classpath'
     [exec] '/app/yantra/SMCFS/tmp/smcfs/smcfswsbe.jar:
/app/yantra/SMCFS/dbjar/jdbc/Oracle/ojdbc6.jar:
/app/yantra/SMCFS/jar/icu4j/49_1/icu4j-
.
. (truncated)
.
.
     [exec] 'com.yantra.interop.services.webservices.rpc.ejb.
YIFWebService'
     [exec]
     [exec] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
     [exec] not part of the command.
     [exec] WSWS3752I: (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines
Corp. 1997, 2010.
     [exec] WSWS3753I: IBM WebSphere Application Server Release 8.0
     [exec] WSWS3754I: Web services Java2WSDL emitter.
     [exec] java.io.IOException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.
yantra.interop.services.webservices.rpc.ejb.YIFWebService
     [exec]  at com.ibm.ws.webservices.wsdl.fromJava.Emitter.init
(Emitter.java:816)
     [exec]  at com.ibm.ws.webservices.wsdl.fromJava.Emitter.getWSDL
(Emitter.java:681)
     [exec]  at com.ibm.ws.webservices.wsdl.fromJava.Emitter.emit
(Emitter.java:611)


Cause of the issue:
The ear was built with IBM SDK 1.7,  But WAS JAVA_HOME points to java 1.6 in Java2WSDL.sh.

Solution:
Set JAVA_HOME to 1.7 in Java2WSDL.sh.

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