ES Adapter not starting by adapter Config

i am using ES5.0 and i installed Enterprise adpter 4.5,but when i am trying to start the adapter thru adapter config tool it’s giving Error. also after installation adapter service is not showing in Control panel/services box . i can’t see adpter service running while ES service is running on 6849 port.
The steps i followed:
Installed the ES5.0
Install JVM1.3
InstallETOOLS
after that installed WmEnterpriseEIAdapters_en_US
following is the error:

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: COM/activesw/visual/event/EditListener
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:442)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:101)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:248)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$1(URLClassLoader.java:216)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:191)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:290)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:275)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
any help would be highly appreciated
Regards,
Ashu

Exactly which adapter are you trying to start?

The Adapter Monitor service runs on port 6853. Do a netstat -a and check if the port 6853 is open (should either see a Listening or Established status).

Also when you installed the EI Adapters, what was the root directory?.. was it inside c:\webmethods5 or c:\wment41?.

You may want to check and let us know with an update.