NoClassDefFoundError when starting BPMS on Tomcat. with MS SQL Server

Issue

I am running BPMS on Tomcat with H2 as a back-end data base and thing works well. When I am trying to use MS SQL Server, startup fails with NoClassDefFoundError:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/jms/XAConnectionFactory
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.instantiate(ResourceLoader.java:128)
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.createBean(ResourceLoader.java:271)
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.buildXAResourceProducer(ResourceLoader.java:239)
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.initXAResourceProducers(ResourceLoader.java:170)
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.init(ResourceLoader.java:152)
    at bitronix.tm.resource.ResourceLoader.init(ResourceLoader.java:84)
    at bitronix.tm.BitronixTransactionManager.<init>(BitronixTransactionManager.java:86)
    at bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices.getTransactionManager(TransactionManagerServices.java:75)
    at bitronix.tm.integration.tomcat55.BTMLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(BTMLifecycleListener.java:18)
    . . .
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.jms.XAConnectionFactory
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)