Dave, Have you tried asking your question on the Tomcat user list [1]? I think you're more likely to get a useful answer there.
Personally I've never used / looked at Tomcat so couldn't even guess what's happening. Thanks. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "David Kit" <david...@bigpond.net.au> wrote on 08/11/2009 10:38:00 PM: > Hi there!. > > I was doing some textbook examples and realised that when I put the > XercesImpl.jar into the lib folder of Tomcat 6, loading http://localhost:8080/ > (and any page within) causes issues. > > Things loaded on server (in this order): > 1. Java JDK-6 Update 16 (Includes JRE6): > 2. Tomcat 6.0.20 > 3. mySQL 5.1.37 > 4. mysql-connector-java-5.1.8 > 5. Jakarta Taglibs-standard-1.1.2 > 6. Xalan-j (which includes the XercesImpl.jar) and 3 other Jars > (Xalan.jar, xml-apis.jar and serializer.jar) > > The latter add to the system all other jars will happily reside in > the lib folder and the page will load. As soon as XercesImpl.jar is > placed in there (of course, restarting Tomcat) results in not being > able to load even the home page in the server (and any other pages). > > I use Windows XPP ? cleanly installed for the purpose for installing > these on the server. > > > Can someone advise where I might have gone wrong ? and where I can > download a log of the information required for diagnosis? > > > Yours Sincerely, > > Dave