Hey , I just realized i acidently placed el-api.jar in WEB-INF/lib folder. If i dont than i get the following exception:
Aug 31, 2010 4:28:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ExpressionFactory at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389) at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3744) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4252) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1173) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:549) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:105) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:873) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.el.ExpressionFactory at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1386) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1232) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:316) ... 27 more and the application is not started. abhishek On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:44 PM, abhishek jain <abhishek.netj...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi friends, > I have a website in struts 1.2 hosted on tomcat 5.5.x and it uses EL. > It is not being evaluated, any suggestions on the reasons why? > > I used struts 1.2 , myeclipse, tomcat 5.5.28 . > EL is not working on live but works on development environment on > myeclipse. > > I have tried changing the web.xml to 2.4 from 2.5 etc. > > Pl. help. > -- > Thanks and kind Regards, > Abhishek jain >