I will have to swallow my pride with this question. I bet this is a very easy issue, but for some reason I haven't found an answer. I moved my JARs from the ".../tomcat/shared/lib" directory to the "web-inf/lib" directory in the app itself, but it seems that the JARs there are not being discovered by Tomcat. This is what the log says:
Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 730 ms Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.29 Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Marking servlet action as unavailable Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: Error loading WebappClassLoader context: delegate: false repositories: /WEB-INF/classes/ ----------> Parent Classloader: org.apache.catalina.loader.standardclassloa...@2eb0a3f5 org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1645) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1491) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:10 95) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 4350) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4659) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:7 91) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext loadOnStartup SEVERE: Servlet threw load() exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1645) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1491) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:10 95) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 4350) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4659) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:7 91) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor manager.xml Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.manuals.vc.webapp.ApplicationListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/dbcp/ConnectionFactory at com.manuals.vc.webapp.ApplicationListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationList ener.java:124) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java: 4135) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4630) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:7 91) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.dbcp.ConnectionFactory at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1645) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1491) ... 25 more Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart Nov 17, 2010 3:46:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org