help with hello world program

Hi. i am new to vaadin.
when i tried the default hello world program i am getting the following error. i cant seem to run the program. hope to get a reply soon for this. thank u.

java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: type “Lcom.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ui.VView;” not found
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredAnnotationsInternal(libgcj.so.90)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredAnnotations(libgcj.so.90)
at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(libgcj.so.90)
at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(libgcj.so.90)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.JsonPaintTarget.getTag(JsonPaintTarget.java:1024)
at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.paint(AbstractComponent.java:661)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractCommunicationManager.paintAfterVariableChanges(AbstractCommunicationManager.java:777)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractCommunicationManager.doHandleUidlRequest(AbstractCommunicationManager.java:590)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.CommunicationManager.handleUidlRequest(CommunicationManager.java:260)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.service(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:438)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454)
at java.lang.Thread.run(libgcj.so.90)

Looks like something similar to what I encountered with Glassfish V3 (see the ticket
#3920
).

Could you describe your environment in more detail? Especially on what server are you running your application?

Hi!

You seem to be running tomcat with GCJ. Is this intentional? Is somebody else doing this?

We are doing quite a lot of automated application server tests now days, but none of them is run with GCJ.

cheers,
matti