I didn't remove any xerces related jars from tomcat cat. I looked in common/lib and server/lib but didn't see xerces.
in the web.xml I only specify a single module config file. <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> There error returned after adding the resolver.jar, xercesImpl.jar, and xml-api.jar is as follows... I must have doesn something wrong because it still contains the bluecast call. SEVERE: Digester.getParser: javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException: XML document validation is not supported at com.bluecast.xml.JAXPSAXParserFactory.newSAXParser(JAXPSAXParserFactory.java:105) at org.apache.commons.digester.parser.XercesParser.newSAXParser(XercesParser.java:139) at org.apache.commons.digester.ParserFeatureSetterFactory.newSAXParser(ParserFeatureSetterFactory.java:73) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getParser(Digester.java:682) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:891) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1572) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.parseModuleConfigFile(ActionServlet.java:738) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModuleConfig(ActionServlet.java:687) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:333) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:932) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3915) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4176) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkResources(HostConfig.java:1085) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1178) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:292) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1304) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1568) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1577) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1557) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Jun 8, 2006 11:25:45 AM org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet init SEVERE: Unable to initialize Struts ActionServlet due to an unexpected exception or error thrown, so marking the servlet as unavailable. Most likely, this is due to an incorrect or missing library dependency. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:891) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1572) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.parseModuleConfigFile(ActionServlet.java:738) at org.apache.struts. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Digester-Error-while-reading-struts-config-file-t1755486.html#a4777120 Sent from the Struts - User forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]