ok, I'm getting warmer... I deployed the .war that came with the struts0.5 release. The ApplicationResources.properties file is in the .war file, in the same path as the example files. Where did I go wrong. btw: is there a better way to go through the archives besides the list-server commands? I requested some threads, but they came to me attached in a way that my mailreader (outlook) could not understand? thanks here's my stack trace: Wed Dec 27 12:08:17 PST 2000:<E> <WebAppServletContext-struts-example> action: Cannot load application resources bundle org.apache.struts.example.ApplicationResources java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org.apache.struts.example.ApplicationResource s, locale en_US at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(Unknown Source) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(Unknown Source) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(Unknown Source) at org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources.<init>(MessageResources.java:102) at org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources.getMessageResources(MessageResources .java:579) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initApplication(ActionServlet.java:49 4) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:289) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubImpl.java :457) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStubImpl.ja va:415) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.jav a:404) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.jav a:325) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.preloadServlet(ServletContextIm pl.java:736) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.preloadServlets(ServletContextI mpl.java:710) at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:607) at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418) at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312) at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99) at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65) at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)