Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi All:

I download Axis 2 versin 1.5.1.
I unzipped to the following directory:C:\axis2-1.5.1
I set AXIS2_HOME -->C:\axis2-1.5.1
I am using windows 2000 server, with jdk 16_17.
I setted JAVA_HOME -->C:\Java\jdk16_17
I ran C:\axis2-1.5.1\bin>axis2.bat
Than I ran
C:\axis2-1.5.1\bin>axis2server.bat
Using JAVA_HOME C:\Java\jdk16_17
Using AXIS2_HOME C:\axis2-1.5.1
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/axis2/transport/SimpleAxis2Server
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis2.transport.SimpleAxis2Server
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:303)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:316)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.axis2.transport.SimpleAxis2Server. Program will exit.
C:\axis2-1.5.1\bin>

Can anyone please give me a hint why I am getting the above error.

Any help or hint or an url would be greatly appreciated.

Yours,

Frustrated.