John, what version of tomcat are you running. I'm running 6.0.14 I'm not doing anything with paypal but I get the same exception at reploy time and I have not issolated it:
{ERROR} startup.ContextConfig Parse error in application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/web.xml java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111) jfk -----Original Message----- From: John Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:32 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: errors on reload, fine on restart Hi, I have just got the PayPal NVP stuff working in my app, but getting it to work required adding quite a few jars that came with the download from PayPal. Trouble is, when I try to reload the app, I get a whole list of exceptions listed. If I restart Tomcat, the app runs fine. I have tried taking out some of the jars, but then PayPal doesn't work ( and doesn't necessarily throw an exception telling you has gone wrong!) Can anyone suggest what might be happening. It isn't a show-stopper, but it is inconvenient. Here is a list of the jars I have added: activation.jar bcmail-jdk14-128.jar bcprov-jdk14-128.jar commons-codec-1.3.jar commons-discovery-0.2.jar commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar commons-logging-1.0.4.jar jaxrpc.jar junit.jar log4j-1.2.8.jar log4j.properties mailapi.jar paypal_base.jar paypal_junit.jar saaj.jar sax2.jar xalan.jar xerces.jar xercesImpl.jar xml-apis.jar xpp3-1.1.3.4d_b4_min.jar xstream-1.1.3.jar And here are some of the errors: {ERROR} startup.TldConfig Exception processing TLD META-INF/spring-form.tldin JAR at resource path C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\spring-webmvc.jar in context java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111)..... {ERROR} startup.TldConfig Exception processing TLD META-INF/spring.tld in JAR at resource path C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\spring-webmvc.jar in context java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111).... {ERROR} startup.TldConfig Exception processing TLD META-INF/c-1_0-rt.tld in JAR at resource path C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\standard.jar in context java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111)... {ERROR} startup.TldConfig Exception processing TLD META-INF/fmt-1_0-rt.tldin JAR at resource path C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\standard.jar in context java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111)... etc for all the tld files hidden within the jar files plus {ERROR} startup.ContextConfig Parse error in default web.xml java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111) {ERROR} startup.ContextConfig Parse error in application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/web.xml java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1111) TIA, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]