I have seen this before when running Tomcat on Windows when I have not had the XML parsing jars anywhere on my path. Either install and use a 1.4.1 JVM, setting JAVA_HOME appropriately, or (I think) it should be sufficient to get the right XML parsing jars in your tomcat common\endorsed directory, or on the default classpath.
I know that two of the jars are xercesImpl.jar, and xmlParserAPIs.jar. With those two Tomcat 5 still doesn't start for me, it looks like it needs some javax.xml.transform classes. It looks like that is taken care of in jaxp-api.jar, from the Java XML pack. Tomcat 4 doesn't need all three though, I think, only the first two. Jeff Tulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (801)861-5322 Novell, Inc., The Leading Provider of Net Business Solutions http://www.novell.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/8/03 12:08:29 PM >>> try this: http://www.moreservlets.com/Using-Tomcat-4.html#Set-CLASSPATH >From: krishnakumar kumaraswamypillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Tomcat startup error >Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 03:20:04 -0700 (PDT) > >hi all >i have installed JAVA 2 SDK 1.3.1_08 > Apache HTTP server 2.0.47 > Apache Tomcat 4.1 >on starting tomcat i get the error: > >Created catalinaLoader in: C:\Program Files\Apache >Group\Tomcat 4.1\server\lib >java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: >org/xml/sax/InputSource > at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:232) > at >org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.init(BootstrapService.java:201) > at >org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService.main(BootstrapService.java:297) > > >I browsed google and found that my CLASSPATH has to be >set. >But to what path should it point? >which jar files? > >Where will i get information. > >Thank u for considering >Krishna Kumar K > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Are you Unmarried? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?4d Register in India's No 1 Matrimony. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]