Ok, to make the problem more simplified...I took the struts2-blank-2.0.12.war application & deployed it to my local tomcat. That works.
Took the same war & deployed it to my server environment tomcat - FAILS. Note that I have commented out every other application running there, so it's a 1 to 1 comparison between local & server. Difference between server & local is: Local Tomcat: 5.5.17 Local JVM: 1.5.0_13 ----------------------- Server Tomcat: 5.5.20 Server JVM: 1.5.0.05-_17_oct_2006_02_15 Does anyone know the differences between these versions well? What could be the culprit!?! Stack for struts-blank on the server is: Feb 6, 2009 1:15:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart SEVERE: Exception starting filter struts2 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source) Feb 6, 2009 1:15:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart Feb 6, 2009 1:15:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/blank] startup failed due to previous errors Feb 6, 2009 1:15:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationCont Looks very familiar...in fact exactly the same stack I get with my app. Any suggestions on where to go from here! --Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org