I am attempting to deploy a proof-of-concept JSF application to Tomcat 5.5.23. I am using Ant to generate my WAR file, whose format is as follows:
META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF index.html index.xhtml result.xhtml WEB-INF/ WEB-INF/classes/ WEB-INF/classes/test/ WEB-INF/classes/test/PersonBean.class WEB-INF/faces-config.xml WEB-INF/web.xml WEB-INF/lib/ WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-api-1.1.5.jar WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-impl-1.1.5.jar WEB-INF/lib/tomahawk-1.1.3.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester-1.6.jar (KEEP THIS ONE IN MIND!!) WEB-INF/lib/commons-el-1.0.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.1.jar WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar -------------------------- However, Tomcat does not deploy the application and reports the following: ERROR main org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/myfaces] - Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/digester/Digester at org.apache.myfaces.config.impl.digester.DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.<init>(DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.java:45) at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:123) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.initFaces(StartupServletContextListener.java:68) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:51) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) 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(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) ERROR main org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/myfaces] - Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/digester/Digester at org.apache.myfaces.config.impl.digester.DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.<init>(DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.java:45) at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:123) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.initFaces(StartupServletContextListener.java:68) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:51) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) 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(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) --------------------------------- I have no idea why Digester isn't found by the class loader since, as you saw, it is included in the WAR file. Any insight into the nature of this problem is very much appreciated. Thanks very much. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-5.5.23-Will-Not-Unpackage-Application-tf3383274.html#a9417174 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]