I've just downloaded b6 and ran 'catalina.sh embedded' and 'catalina.sh embedded -security' and both failed. Have I omitted anything, or is there a bug? Solaris 8, jdk 1.3.1, tomcat b6 -------------- <snip> XmlMapper: Debug level: 3 XmlMapper: Validating = true ContextConfig[]: Scanning web.xml tag libraries ContextConfig[]: Scanning library JAR files ContextConfig[]: Pipline Configuration: ContextConfig[]: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve/1.0 ContextConfig[]: ====================== StandardContext[]: Configuring application event listeners StandardContext[]: Sending application start events StandardContext[]: Starting filters StandardContext[]: Posting standard context attributes StandardWrapper[:default]: Loading container servlet default default: init StandardWrapper[:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker invoker: init StandardWrapper[:jsp]: Using Jasper classloader for servlet jsp StandardWrapper[:jsp]: Marking servlet jsp as unavailable StandardContext[]: Servlet threw load() exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:842) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3196) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3299) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:278) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.addEngine(Embedded.java:465) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.main(Embedded.java:1043) ----- Root Cause ----- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jasper/JasperException at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:237) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:825) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3196) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3299) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:278) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.addEngine(Embedded.java:465) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.main(Embedded.java:1043) StandardWrapper[:ssi]: Loading container servlet ssi ssi: init StandardWrapper[:cgi]: Loading container servlet cgi cgi: init cgi: init: loglevel set to 6 StandardContext[]: Starting completed </snip>