To all those who helped on this problem, my sincere thanks. It is now resolved.
Resolution: Upgrade to tomcat7. Jim A. On 07/09/2014 07:26 AM, Martin Gainty wrote: > MG>can you repost the Stacktrace in a followup email > MG>thanks > > > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 20:52:24 -0700 > > Subject: Re: hello world is giving me a stack trace. > > From: haoniu...@gmail.com > > To: jim_ander...@jjajava.com > > CC: user@struts.apache.org > > > > Don't know why. I suspect you have a class name conflict somewhere > in your > > environment. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Jim Anderon <jim_ander...@jjajava.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I am attaching the struts.xml file. This is the struts.xml file > that came > > > with the tutorial example. I have not > > > edited it at all. > > > > > > I realize the stack track indicates the program failed in the > struts.xml > > > file, but I assume that > > > for most people running the example, this example works. I suspect > that > > > the this code makes assumptions > > > about the environment and that my environment does not meet all of the > > > assumptions. I have no idea where > > > to look for the root cause at this point. > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > On 07/08/2014 05:12 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > > > > > > The backtrace already told you. There's a classcast exception in your > > > struts.xml file. > > > You need to at least add your struts.xml file. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Jim Anderon > <jim_ander...@jjajava.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I'm trying to learn about struts and I have been trying to run the > > >> tutorials. The example, 'basic struts', runs ok in my > > >> environment. But when I run 'hello_world', I get a stack trace, > which I > > >> will attach to this email. > > >> > > >> I'm running on Crunchbang linux, a Debian deriviative, and I'm using > > >> tomcat6 as my server, with Struts 2.3.16.3. > > >> > > >> I was having trouble getting the example to run on my machine. I > finally > > >> got it to run successfully once. Every run > > >> after that has given me a stacktrace. I figured that I might have > messed > > >> up the code in my work space, so I removed > > >> everything, re-installed the hello_world directory and then > rebuilt using > > >> 'mvn clean package', which ran > > >> successfully. I tried installing the war file both manually and > using the > > >> tomcat manager and got the same results > > >> in either case. > > >> > > >> I am searching the internet for a similar stacktrace, but have > not found > > >> it yet. Has anyone on the mailing list > > >> seen a similar problem before? > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> Jim Anderson > > >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 牛坤 > > > MSN:haoniu...@hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 牛坤 > > MSN:haoniu...@hotmail.com