Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi All,
I am getting the following exception while starting my WebSphere 4.0 TestEnvironment. Is any body has any Idea ...?

1/28/03 18:34:41:549 EST] 408bba99 EJBEngine I WSVR0037I: Starting EJB jar: wcc
[1/28/03 18:34:45:214 EST] 408bba99 EJBEngine X WSVR0040E: addEjbModule failed for com.ibm.ejs.models.base.config.applicationserver.impl.EJBModuleRefImpl (desiredExecutionState: START) (uri: CONTRACTEJB.jar)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: framework/lite/type/ApplicationException
at java.lang.Class.getMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1079)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.EJBJarClassLoader._resolveClass(EJBJarClassLoader.java:92)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.EJBJarClassLoader.preloadInterfaces(EJBJarClassLoader.java:62)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.ClassLoaderManager.lookupClassLoader(ClassLoaderManager.java:210)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.getClassLoader(Server.java:866)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.EJBEngine.addEjbModule(EJBEngine.java:381)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.startModule(Server.java:607)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.initializeModules(StandardServer.java:321)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.initializeRuntime0(StandardServer.java:349)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.initializeRuntime(Server.java:884)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.main(StandardServer.java:519)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:158)
at com.ibm.etools.websphere.tools.runner.api.ServerRunnerV4$1.run(ServerRunnerV4.java:56)

Thanks in Advance,

shanmugam