Maybe it is corrupt? Can you view the contents of the jar file? jar -tf iwxml.jar
Larry >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/17/02 15:17 PM >>> Hi: It seems that Tomcat doesn't support any jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory. By the way I'm not using symlinks at all in the WEB-INF/lib directory. Tomcat 4.1.12 Sun JDK 1.4.1 Red Hat 8 The file mywebapp/WEB-INF/lib/iwxml.jar does exist! The owner of the Tomcat process is root,so it can read the archive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>