as to what i understood, david thinks he's using the ones coming with jdk 1.6, however, they are giving a nullpointer.
therefore, it has to be checked if tomcat uses the endorsed mechanism using it's very own libraries. seems as in this very case something is in eclipse's classpath what's missing in the application-classpath within tomcat. gregor -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]