Hm, the problem might already be somewhere else. Turning the log level to debug, reveales following error after tomcat startup before even I try to get my message ressource:
--- snip ---------------------- Dec 2, 2004 3:27:39 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 Dec 2, 2004 3:27:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 750 ms Dec 2, 2004 3:27:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina Dec 2, 2004 3:27:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.4 Dec 2, 2004 3:27:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start INFO: XML validation disabled Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balanc er.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParam eterRule: Target param name: paramName / Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.ba lancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]] Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized() Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized() Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Marking servlet action as unavailable Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: Error loading WebappClassLoader delegate: false repositories: /WEB-INF/classes/ ----------> Parent Classloader: [EMAIL PROTECTED] org.apache.struts.ActionServlet java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.struts.ActionServlet at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader .java:1332) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader .java:1181) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.jav a:988) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:886) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.j ava:3817) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4079 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.ja va:755) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:8 86) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java :849) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:474) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1079) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:31 0) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu pport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1011) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1003) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:437) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2010) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:537) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409) Dec 2, 2004 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: Servlet /app threw load() exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class org.apache.struts.ActionServlet or a class it depends on ... --- snip ---------------------- It looks to me that Tomcat is trying to instantiate org.apache.struts.ActionServlet before its even going to my app. I have struts.jar and all the commons-xxx.jars in my webapps\apps\WEB-INF\lib directory. Do I miss something else? Thanks, -- Bernd -----Original Message----- From: Lane, Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:53 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: retrieveMessageResources: NullPointerException Message-resources needs to come AFTER action-mappings according to dtd. You should be getting errors from your container about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
