Ok, I restarted from a clean svn checkout, and followed your steps. I'm now trying only under jetty, because I believe tomcat adds more trouble.
Anyway, I did put my context into core\cocoon-webapp\target\cocoon-webapp\WEB-INF\cocoon\spring and it doesn't load it, no errors, nothing at all. But, whenever I copy definitions directly into WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml after the <avalon:avalon> part, it loads and I get the error I wanted, that is : [INFO] Failure Embedded error: Cannot invoke listener org.springframework.web.context.ContextLo [EMAIL PROTECTED] org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource Which is "ok", because org.spring.jdbc.* jar wasn't in my classpath. Sounds like autoload under jetty doesn't work here. I'll try again with tomcat5.5.17, see if it's different. Here is my daoContext.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd";> <bean class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource" id="dataSource"> <property name="driverClassName"> <value>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</value> </property> <property name="url"> <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/foo</value> </property> <property name="username"> <value>root</value> </property> <property name="password"> <value></value> </property> </bean> </beans> Extracts from WEB-INF/web.xml : <context-param> <param-name>org.apache.cocoon.bootstrap.servlet.ShieldingListener</param-name> <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.apache.cocoon.bootstrap.servlet.ShieldingListener</listener-class> </listener> laurent <a href="http://in-pocket.blogspot.com";>http://in-pocket.blogspot.com - Mobile world, technology and more</a>
