This is a tough one . I have no clue. All I get in the logs is that error msg. Here
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"> <listener> <listener-class>com.listeners.TrailsContextListener</listener-class> </listener> <context-param> <param-name> trailsDBConnName </param-name> <param-value> jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/trailsDB </param-value> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>Show Bikes</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.bikes.controller.BikeModelsServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Show Bikes</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/getBikes.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app> My context listener class is in com/listeners