This definitely got me a lot closer - and I now I am able to run the jsp-examples and servlet-examples. However, I had to both download the nightly build AND the latest xerces from gump.
Now I'm getting the following error: SEVERE: Error loading WebappClassLoader delegate: false repositories: /WEB-INF/classes/ ----------> Parent Classloader: StandardClassLoader delegate: true repositories: file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\classes\ file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\catalina-ant.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\catalina.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\commons-beanutils.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\commons-digester.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\commons-logging.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\commons-modeler.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\mx4j-jmx.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\servlets-common.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\servlets-default.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\servlets-invoker.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\servlets-manager.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\servlets-webdav.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\tomcat-coyote.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\tomcat-http11.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\tomcat-jk2.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\server\lib\tomcat-util.jar ----------> Parent Classloader: StandardClassLoader delegate: true repositories: file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\classes\ file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\endorsed\xercesImpl.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\endorsed\xmlParserAPIs.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\ant.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\commons-collections.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\commons-dbcp.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\commons-logging-api.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\commons-pool.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\jasper-compiler.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\jasper-runtime.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\jsp-api.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\jsp20el.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\naming-common.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\naming-factory.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\naming-java.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\naming-resources.jar file:D:\Tools\jakarta-tomcat-5.0\common\lib\servlet-api.jar ----------> Parent Classloader: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@12f6684 org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader .java:1307) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader .java:1154) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.jav a:870) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:805) > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeanfrancois Arcand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:02 AM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: Tomcat 5 Nightly ( Errors > > > See > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13282 > > Download Xerces 2.1.0 or the current nightly build: > > http://gump.covalent.net/jars/latest/xml-xerces2/ > > -- Jeanfrancois > > Matt Raible wrote: > > >I downloaded the Tomcat 5 binary version from > >http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/nightly-5/ (Nov. 23rd > >2002) and I'm trying to get it working. Below is a > condensed list of > >error's I'm receiving. Please let me know what I need to change OR > >what I'm doing wrong and I'll attempt to spread the knowledge. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Matt > > > >Apache Tomcat/5.0 > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester > fatalError > >SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 307 column 39: The string > "--" is not > >permitted within comments. > >org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not > permitted within > >comments. > > at > >org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseExce > ption(Unkn > >o > >wn Source) > > > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start > >SEVERE: Exception processing TLD at resource path > /WEB-INF/controls.tld > >javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception processing TLD at resource > >path /WEB-INF/controls.tld > > at > >org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanTld(ContextC > onfig.java > >: > >1159) > > > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start > >SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous > error(s) > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase > >getRandom > >INFO: Seeding random number generator class > java.security.SecureRandom > >200 Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase log > >INFO: Context startup failed due to previous errors > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig > >authenticatorConfig > >INFO: Configured an authenticator for method BASIC > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase log > >INFO: Installing web application at context path > /jsp-examples from URL > >file:d:/tools/jakarta-tomcat-5.0/webapps/jsp-exa > >mples > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:37 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester > fatalError > >SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 307 column 39: The string > "--" is not > >permitted within comments. > >org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not > permitted within > >comments. > > at > >org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseExce > ption(Unkno > >wn Source) > > at > org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown > >Source) > > > >Nov 23, 2002 9:02:37 PM > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start > >SEVERE: Exception processing TLD META-INF/sql-rt.tld in JAR > at resource > >path /WEB-INF/lib/standard.jar > >javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception processing TLD > >META-INF/sql-rt.tld in JAR at resource path > /WEB-INF/lib/standa rd.jar > > at > >org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanJar(ContextC > onfig.java: > >1079) > > at > >org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConf > ig.java:100 > >5) > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For > additional commands, > e-mail: > ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>