I have just reorganized my tomcat deployment to use catalina base and home. I'm getting an obscure, to me at least, error on startup. During the processing of my webapps I think. I'm on tomcat 5.5.35, and, yes, I'm going to upgrade after I get the base and home thing working.
Anybody have some insight into this: 2012-06-07 15:28:47,616 ERROR [main]-digester.Digester: Begin event threw exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1438) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1284) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java:205) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:153) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1276) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationWebConfig(ContextConfig.java:348) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:261) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4184) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)