Hi All, I have 3 tomcats installed in my machine, one is 7.0.27, 7.0.35 and 7.0.50
Now when I deploy my war file to 7.0.27/7.0.35 it works perfectly fine and deployment goes through. But on 7.0.50 it fails with below message, FAIL - Application at context path /myapp could not be started FAIL - Encountered exception org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/myapp]] In catalina logs I see below message, eb 05, 2014 10:22:21 PM org.apache.catalina.deploy.NamingResources cleanUp WARNING: Failed to retrieve JNDI naming context for container [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/myapp]] so no cleanup was performed for that container javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name [comp/env] is not bound in this Context. Unable to find [comp]. at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:820) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:168) at org.apache.catalina.deploy.NamingResources.cleanUp(NamingResources.java:988) at org.apache.catalina.deploy.NamingResources.stopInternal(NamingResources.java:970) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5664) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:141) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1258) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:716) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:221) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:611) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:953) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:409) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1044) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:607) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2441) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2430) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) I am not sure as why its not able to find JNDI resource when other 2 version sitting on same local host can find it. I have JRE 7 and I am on windows vista home edition with 32 bit OS. - Kiran