I've been running JDK 1.4.0 for some time and I can't recall ever copying anything to $CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed with either Tomcat 3.x or Tomcat 4.x. We're currently running the integrated Jboss 3.0.4 and Tomcat 4.1.12 with no problems and an empty "jboss-3.0.4_tomcat-4.1.12\tomcat-4.1.x\common\endorsed" directory.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104219747100003&r=1&w=2
(I do have to continue to keep the JDK endorsed directories current with the latest Xerces/Xalan...)
Well, that's probably the reason why you're not having this problem ...
I've also managed to get Tomcat 4.1.21 + Cocoon 2.1-dev + BEA JRockit 8 running together under RedHat Linux 8. With Tomcat 4.1.18, I coulnd't make the problem described in the abovementioned messages go away, no matter what I put in <whatever>/endorsed.
Ugo
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