I have Tomcat 5.5.7 installed on two different machines - Win XP and Windows 2000. I use the 'startup.bat' script provided in the '/bin' directory and I have JDK 1.5 installed on both machines. The only environment variables I have are JAVA_HOME as I allow the 'startup.bat' to set the other parameters: --------------------------------------------- D:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\bin>startup.bat Using CATALINA_BASE: D:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7 Using CATALINA_HOME: D:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: D:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\temp Using JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_01 ---------------------------------------------
Now in my 'webapps\ROOT' application web.xml file, I have 3 filters that loads perfectly on my WinXP machine. However on my Windows 2000, I get three load errors upon startup with the last shown at the end of this email. However even with the errors, my application still works with the filters. Does anyone have any idea why I get the load filter error? I verified that the classes do indeed exist in my '\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes' folder. If you need to see my web.xml code, I can send that upon request as I wanted to keep this initial email short as possible. Thanks. Bim --------------------------------------------------- SEVERE: Exception starting filter HibernateFilter java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.orange.utils.HibernateFilter at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1332) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1181) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:211) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:308) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3508) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4079) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:909) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:872) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:474) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1106) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1019) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1011) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:440) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:683) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:537) 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:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409) Mar 22, 2005 12:14:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart ---------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]