Thank you so much for the reply but it did not work. Tomcat would not even start up it threw a bunch of exceptions like the one at the bottom of this reply: I wish they would make the servlet-api and jsp-api generic so you could swap them between servlet-containers. It just can not seem to understand why it is so hard to get a Java servlet container to communicate with an Enterprise Java Bean, it seems like they should work together seamlessly. Ones again, thank you for the reply, at this point I am willing to try most anything to get this too work so any suggestions would be most appreciated. Right now it looks like I am either going to have to scrap Tomcat or rewrite my EJB's to commnicate through a SOAP or REST interface unless anyone has anymore ideas.
Jon SEVERE: Begin event threw exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at org.apache.commons.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.j ava:252) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:200) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1273) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.startElement(CatalinaDigest er.java:70) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startEle ment(AbstractSAXParser.java:533) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser. emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:220) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImp l.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:872) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImp l$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java :1693) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImp l.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(X ML11Configuration.java:834) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(X ML11Configuration.java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser. java:148) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Ab stractSAXParser.java:1242) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:509) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:266) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431) Jul 28, 2006 6:27:27 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:47 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun's Application server Jon Hoffman wrote: > The problem seems to come from Sun's J2EE.jar file. This jar is > needed by the EJB client but it also conflicts with the servlet.jar > file that comes with tomcat therefore I get this warning in my Tomcat log file: > INFO: > validateJarFile(/usr/local/src/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/firewallru > le > s/WEB-INF/lib/j2ee.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, > section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class Can anyone > give me any suggestions on how to get this to work? > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Just an idea. Try removing the servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar files from common/lib and replacing them with the j2ee.jar Warning: I haven't tested this at all. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]