Martin, Thanks for your help. I now get a verbose output on why my context load fails: it has to do with the Spring context load listener failing to load the right XML parser to load an XML configuration.
The reason I am posting this to Tomcat's list is this: I have xercesImpl ver 2.9.0 in ${CATALINA_BASE}/lib and am using JRE6.0. Yet, the context seems to fail to load the parser. Does this stack trace ring a bell on what the root cause might be? If this is irrelevant to Tomcat, pl accept my apologies! 2007-11-14 11:09:06,371 ERROR [main] context.ContextLoader:205 - Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unable to validate using XSD: Your JAXP provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not support XML Schema. Are you running on Java 1.4 or below with Apache Crimson? Upgrade to Apache Xerces (or Java 1.5) for full XSD support. at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.createDocumentBuilderFactory(DefaultDocumentL oader.java:102) Tx, /Uma -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > did you verify your configuration files are proper XML ? > which parameter does ContextListener error out on? > do you see the message "INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()" > anywhere in the logs? > > Log4j.properties has the requisite parameters in and is webapp accessible > when located in /WEB-INF/classes location > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html > > ##log4j.properties > #identify logfile as receptor of log for root > log4j.rootLogger=logfile > > log4j.appender.logfile=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.logfile.File=${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/YourWebApp/WEB-INF/BigL > og.log > log4j.appender.logfile.MaxFileSize=512KB > # Keep three backup files. > log4j.appender.logfile.MaxBackupIndex=3 > # Pattern to output: date priority [category] - message > log4j.appender.logfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] - %m%n > > > M- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:32 AM > Subject: Error: ListenerStart > > > > > > Environment: Jre6, Tomcat 6.0.14, Linux Redhat > > > > Is there a Tomcat (6.x) specific way of making ContextListener more > verbose > > in its "Error: listenerStart" message? I mean is there a log4j setting for > Tomcat > > that I can enable to identify why the context load fails? > > > > Tx, > > > > /U > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]