Listeners must be declared before any servlets in web.xml. I'd check that first.
-----Original Message----- From: Mufaddal Khumri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:41 AM To: Tomcat List Subject: Servlet Context Listener problem... Hi: I implemented ServletContextListener in my class. I then wrote the xml in the web.xml file and started tomcat. The error tomcat threw tells me that it did not recognize the listener and listener-class elements ?? i have them declared in the web.xml as: <web-app> <!-- ServletContextListener --> <listener> <listener-class> com.wavesinmotion.cw.classes.jsphelpers.CourseWizardContextListener </listener-class> </listener> </web-app> Any ideas where I am going wrong ? Thanks. Tomcat threw this error below: SEVERE: Parse Error at line 10 column 12: Element type "listener" must be declared. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "listener" must be declared. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Error HandlerWrapper.java:232) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.jav a:173) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:371) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:305) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(XMLDTDVali dator.java:1833) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator. java:724) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(X MLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:759) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDis patcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1477) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDo cumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:329) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 25) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 81) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java :1175) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1495) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfi g.java:282) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:639) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.j ava:243) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu pport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3567 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) 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.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) Jul 14, 2003 3:56:11 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error SEVERE: Parse Error at line 11 column 19: Element type "listener-class" must be declared. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "listener-class" must be declared. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Error HandlerWrapper.java:232) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.jav a:173) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:371) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:305) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(XMLDTDVali dator.java:1833) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator. java:724) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(X MLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:759) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDis patcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1477) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDo cumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:329) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 25) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 81) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java :1175) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1495) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfi g.java:282) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:639) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.j ava:243) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu pport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3567 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) 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.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) Jul 14, 2003 3:56:11 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error SEVERE: Parse Error at line 190 column 11: The content of element type "web-app" must match "(icon?,display-name?,description?,distributable?,context- param*,servlet*,servlet-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welcome- file-list?,error-page*,taglib*,resource-ref*,security- constraint*,login-config?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-ref*)". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "web-app" must match "(icon?,display-name?,description?,distributable?,context- param*,servlet*,servlet-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welcome- file-list?,error-page*,taglib*,resource-ref*,security- constraint*,login-config?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-ref*)". at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Error HandlerWrapper.java:232) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.jav a:173) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:371) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.jav a:305) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(XMLDTDValida tor.java:1918) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(XMLDTDValidator.ja va:851) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XML DocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1008) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDis patcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1469) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDo cumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:329) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 25) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:5 81) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java :1175) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1495) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfi g.java:282) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:639) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.j ava:243) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu pport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3567 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) 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.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]