Hi, I have had an uphill climb trying to get Cocoon 1.8.2 installed on my Win2K, Apache-Tomcat machine. I have read all the install hints, tips and tricks or at least I believe I have. However, I keep running into the same error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error creating org.apache.cocoon.parser.XercesParser: make sure the needed classes can be found in the classpath (org/apache/xerces/framework/XMLParser) I understand that the Xerces parser utilizes some of the same API's as the parser and requires that you rename the parser.jar to zparser.jar. I have renamed accordingly. The full error message is: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error creating org.apache.cocoon.parser.XercesParser: make sure the needed classes can be found in the classpath (org/apache/xerces/framework/XMLParser) at org.apache.cocoon.framework.Manager.create(Manager.java:122) at org.apache.cocoon.Engine.<init>(Engine.java:147) at org.apache.cocoon.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:232) at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.init(Cocoon.java:157) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doInit(ServletWrapper.java:317) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.init(Handler.java:215) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:296) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79 7) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC onnectionHandler.java:210) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) My %TOMCAT_HOME%\lib directory has the following jars: ant.jar ant_1_1.jar bsf.jar bsfengines.jar cocoon.jar fesi.jar fop_0_15_0.jar jasper.jar jaxp.jar sax-bugfix.jar servlet.jar servlet_2_2.jar stylebook-1.0-b2.jar test turbine-pool.jar w3c.jar webserver.jar xalan_1_2_D02.jar xerces_1_2.jar xt.jar zparser.jar zxml.jar >From the stack trace, I believe that Cocoon has been set up properly within Tomcat. However, I am stumped as to the reason for the XercesParser error. TIA for any help available, Ben Cramer iPath Solutions Houston, TX --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>