Ok, that's another really strange JDK1.4 problem. I hate class loaders. It works perfectly fine with JDK1.3 - but fails with JDK1.4.1.
Needless to say - tomcat-coyote is in lib, and if I enable -verbose:class it actually displays a line showing ActionHook is loaded - only to throw the exception few lines down. Any idea ? I get this with 4.1 head and also with 5.0 ( but in 5.0 I may have a strange env - that's why I tested with a clean 4.1 head ) Java is 1.4.1_01-b01 on linux. Costin The exception is: Using CATALINA_BASE: /ws/41/dist Using CATALINA_HOME: /ws/41/dist Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /ws/41/dist/temp Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/jdk14 /usr/java/jdk14/bin/java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/ws/41/dist/bin:/ws/41/dist/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/java/jdk14/lib/tools.jar:/ws/41/dist/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/ws/41/dist -Dcatalina.home=/ws/41/dist -Djava.io.tmpdir=/ws/41/dist/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start Exception during startup processing java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 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:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/coyote/ActionHook at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClass(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClass0(ClassLoader.java:723) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:292) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:941) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:857) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:941) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:857) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:502) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:250) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:54) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:193) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.findClass(StandardClassLoader.java:621) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:958) at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:857) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:140) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector.initialize(CoyoteConnector.java:1016) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:2246) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:511) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) ... 5 more -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>