SoapUI hosting on Tomcat error

06-Nov-2016 14:18:34.624 SEVERE [http-nio-9092-exec-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log StandardWrapper.Throwable
 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.http.HttpClientSupport
at com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.initSettings(DefaultSoapUICore.java:361)
at com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.init(DefaultSoapUICore.java:129)
at com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.<init>(DefaultSoapUICore.java:114)
at com.eviware.soapui.mockaswar.MockAsWarServlet$MockServletSoapUICore.<init>(MockAsWarServlet.java:317)
at com.eviware.soapui.mockaswar.MockAsWarServlet.init(MockAsWarServlet.java:71)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1183)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1099)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:133)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:784)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:802)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1410)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

This is the error I happened to get on SOAPUI 5.2.1 on trying to deploy a war file containing mock service on Apache Tomcat 8.5.

This issue is caused because the hosting service is unable to find some jar files required to host the service. This can be FIXed by ensuring soapUI has internet access. Once I ran this on a system having internet access, it worked fine.

If you have a system without internet access, you can use the SOAPUI itself to host the mock service and disable logging, it is good enough to run a Load Test on it. Response time I saw was 0.1ms .