[gmachamer]

My project ran just fine on MyEclipse 3.1. Now after reinstalling eclipse, myEclipse, and the plugins that I was using I’ve pulled my project down from Subversion.

The project looks fine, no errors. When I start the server I’m getting the following errors.

\WEB-INF\lib\servlet-api-5.0.18.jar) – jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
Oct 20, 2005 8:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Oct 20, 2005 8:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context startup failed due to previous errors
Oct 20, 2005 8:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.logger.LoggerBase stop

I’m using Tomcat 5.0.28
eclipse 3.1
myEclipse 4.0

One other person on my development team has already made the upgrade and it worked succesfully for them… but they can’t remember having to do anything to make it work.

[Riyad Kalla]

Well it looks like you are deploying your servlet-api.jar and possibly your jsp-api.jar with your project, this is probably not a good idea as your app server already provides these classes. The problen you are running into here is you are deploying older versions of servlet and JSP spec to Tomcat 5 than it supports (it supports the new servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 versions, you are deploying Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 I believe versions with those old files), so your project startup is barfing on itself.

[gmachamer]

Thanks.. I caught that my self just a sec ago. After removing the servlet jar file I no longer get any errors except for the following.

INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL file:C:\XXXXXXX\Tomcat5.0.28\conf\Catalina\localhost\XXXXXXXX.xml
Oct 20, 2005 8:29:47 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Oct 20, 2005 8:29:47 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context startup failed due to previous errors
Oct 20, 2005 8:29:47 AM org.apache.catalina.logger.LoggerBase stop

[gmachamer]

it appears that there are some missing class files. One of my dependent projects isn’t getting included correctly… I should be able to pull some configurations from another developer… I would pull from my old install.. but the reason I upgraded is because I had a complete harddrive failure… so all my workspace settings were lost.

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