struts-related exception on tomcat startup

[Darrel Riekhof]

I'm getting the exception below whenever I start tomcat. It looks like it has to be one of the struts apps deployed on tomcat, but I don't know which one, and I don't know which file it's complianing about.

I started getting this as soon as I switched tomcat over to the xml jars included with FOP 2.0.5, which I assume are a little more recent that the xml jars that come with tomcat. Btw, the trace seems to be harmless, all the webapps I care about still work, but I'd still like to fix the bad comment wherever it is to get rid of this exception, just for peace of mind. :) I suspect the tomcat admin webapp as the culprit, but I've checked all its config files very carefully, no bad comments on line 551...

Does anyone recognize this trace and know which webapp/file is to blame? Or, can I get tomcat to tell me more info while it's booting up?

Darrel

---------- stacktrace below ----------

Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.18
Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:755)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1434)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:474)
at org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:152)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:934)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3420)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:529)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:228)
at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1036)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:335)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:452)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:409)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:879)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:368)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1196)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2189)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)



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