I found someone had posted the same error that I'm having but I'm having trouble finding the answer. Heres what Yakov Belov had posted: Dear All, when I try to start up tomcat I receive the following exception: Exception during startup processing java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/naming/JndiPermission at org.apache.naming.resources.DirContextURLStreamHandler.openConnection(DirCon textURLStreamHandler.java:135) at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:781) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.<init>(JarURLConnection.java:67) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:27) at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:781) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldConfigJar(ContextConfig.java:10 91) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldConfig(ContextConfig.java:1042) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:828) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java: 224) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3334) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:612) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:307) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:388) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:505) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:776) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) am I missing a jar file somewhere or something else is wrong? Best Regards, Yakov Belov Hope someone has that answer on file somewhere for me. Brad Haughn If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to see it.... and it lands on a mime, does anybody care?