Help with java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError AND  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError in Tomcat 5.5 (Ubuntu 7.04)

Just to give some background,  the application I'm trying to deploy has been in used before in several other systems, windows, red hat, kubuntu all running Tomcat 5 & 5.5 .   Quite recently I've decided to setup a ubuntu server us ing the 7.04 distribution.  I had some setup problems at first but got it to run to my satisfaction, a few weeks ago my pc-server died due to memory and hard disk issues.

After re-installing, I am now unable to get past this problem and complete the application install.  Been working on it for the last two weeks, but I'm still stumped.

One every application restart, the error always starts with java.lang.ExceptionInInitializer Error after that all other errors are ClassDefNotFound errors when running the servlet.

Below is the snippet from the log file:

Sep 22, 2007 10:16:32 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet MaintainDB threw exception
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
      at psu.util.javaPackage.PackageTree.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at psu.database.InitDB.doGet(Unknown Source)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:245)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$0(ApplicationFilterChain.java:177)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:156)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:152)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission java.class.path read)
      at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:264)
      at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:427)
      at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)
      at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1285)
      at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:628)
      at psu.util.javaPackage.PackageContents.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
      ... 30 more
Sep 22, 2007 10:17:27 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet MaintainDB threw exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
      at psu.util.javaPackage.PackageTree.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at psu.database.InitDB.doGet(Unknown Source)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275)
      at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:245)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$0(ApplicationFilterChain.java:177)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:156)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:152)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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