Hello Brian, thanks for your great work! After playing around with the plugin I found an issue in combination with toplink-essentials. Not sure, but it seems related to the classpath scanning.
Trying struts.convention.exclude.packages=oracle.toplink.essentials.transaction the error remains, but with different class: org.apache.struts2.views.velocity.components.SetDirective So I think there is some class loading going on in toplink that conflicts with yours? If I remove the toplink dependency (2.0-36), everything works fine. If I remove the convention plugin, it works fine as well.. Piero Stacktrace: 12.01.2008 17:21:39 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception starting filter action2 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not load class [oracle.toplink.essentials.transaction.JTASynchronizationListener] at org.apache.struts2.convention.ClassClassLoaderResolver.prepare(ClassClassLoaderResolver.java:198) at org.apache.struts2.convention.ClassClassLoaderResolver.prepare(ClassClassLoaderResolver.java:51) at org.apache.struts2.convention.AbstractClassLoaderResolver.addIfMatching(AbstractClassLoaderResolver.java:447) at org.apache.struts2.convention.AbstractClassLoaderResolver.loadResourcesInJar(AbstractClassLoaderResolver.java:401) at org.apache.struts2.convention.AbstractClassLoaderResolver.findInDirectory(AbstractClassLoaderResolver.java:276) at org.apache.struts2.convention.AbstractClassLoaderResolver.find(AbstractClassLoaderResolver.java:154) at org.apache.struts2.convention.AbstractClassLoaderResolver.findByLocators(AbstractClassLoaderResolver.java:243) at org.apache.struts2.convention.PackageBasedActionConfigBuilder.findActionsUsingPackageLocators(PackageBasedActionConfigBuilder.java:185) at org.apache.struts2.convention.PackageBasedActionConfigBuilder.buildActionConfigs(PackageBasedActionConfigBuilder.java:165) at org.apache.struts2.convention.ClasspathConfigurationProvider.loadPackages(ClasspathConfigurationProvider.java:74) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reloadContainer(DefaultConfiguration.java:190) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:55) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:370) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:423) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:211) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3696) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:511) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1220) 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:597) at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:297) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1458) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:820) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:348) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:196) 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:175) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525) 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:263) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:584) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1817) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:872) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1325) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1204) at org.apache.struts2.convention.ClassClassLoaderResolver.prepare(ClassClassLoaderResolver.java:194) ... 53 more --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]