Hi all, I've been using Tomcat at various releases for a few years, mostly at dev level, nothing in production. But recently I downloaded Tomcat 6.0.18 and tried to deploy a web service to it, and I get a strange warning come up at the Tomcat output console.
... Dec 18, 2008 1:32:01 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile INFO: validateJarFile(C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\webapps\ PersonWebService-1.0\WEB-INF\lib\servlet-api-2.5.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class ... My web service was created using Maven2. Maven insists on helping as much as possible and wants to include the "servlet-api-2.5.jar" in the /WEB-INF/lib folder. That's fine, I added the Maven dependency to my pom.xml and Maven is now happy. As expected, the war file produced has the "servlet-api-2.5.jar" file in the lib folder. But when I drop that war file into the <Tomcat_install>/webapps folder of Tomcat, during deployment the above error is thrown out. I searched the web and many sites and blogs recommend simply removing the servlet-api-2.5.jar file from the war file and indeed, that stops the warning. But it seems to me that Maven is correct here in leaving it in the war, while Tomcat should realize that many deployed war files may include this common jar? Any info or help would be much appreciated. Thanks, -jeff walker
