[xwiki-devs] Problems deploying custom Authentication

Hi, i've been writing a custom authentication plugin for xwiki. The implementation was pretty straightforward, however I'm having trouble deploying the plugin. I bundled it with other plugins for the same purpose in a jar file. The jar file is deployed to my local repository. It's pulled in when I build the xe-debug-web in Eclipse and it's present in the xe-debug-web/WEB-INF/ lib directory of the deployed app (in .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/ tmp0 ...). I altered the xwiki.cfg, adding the following line: xwiki .authentication .authclass=com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin However, when starting the application, I get the following problem: - Initializing AuthService... - Failed to initialize AuthService com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin using Reflection, trying default implementations using 'new'. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin at org .apache .catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java: 1387) at org .apache .catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java: 1233) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:374) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getAuthService(XWiki.java:4630) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.checkAuth(XWiki.java:3566) at com .xpn .xwiki .user .impl .xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl.checkAccess(XWikiRightServiceImpl.java:170) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.checkAccess(XWiki.java:3574) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.prepareDocuments(XWiki.java:4480) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:190) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:115) at org .apache .struts .action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org .apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java: 236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java: 1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) 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 com .xpn .xwiki .wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java: 94) at org .apache .catalina .core .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 235) at org .apache .catalina .core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at com .xpn .xwiki .web .SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java: 287) at org .apache .catalina .core .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 235) at org .apache .catalina .core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at com .xpn .xwiki .web .SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java: 112) at org .apache .catalina .core .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 235) 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: 286) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java: 845) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol $Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java: 447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637) Any idea what I've missed? Thanks in advance, J.L.Simon