My application is false status when i see in Tomcat manager (Struts 2) - URGENT PLEASE

Hi Friends

i have developed struts applications

i really don't my tomcat is behaving weird..

i kept my struts application

Testingagain - [parent folder]

in that i have resouces with jsp

and web-inf folder with classes folder , lib folder and web.xml

now when i open my tomcat manager

i am getting false status under Running when i opened

when i click start i am getting the following error as following..

Aug 10, 2009 8:47:38 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 2531 ms
Aug 10, 2009 8:48:00 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJar
File
INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Tomcat\apache-tomcat-5.5.25\webapps\Testingagain\WEB-IN
F\lib\jsp-api.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offend
ing class: javax/servlet/jsp/JspPage.class
Aug 10, 2009 8:48:00 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJar
File
INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Tomcat\apache-tomcat-5.5.25\webapps\Testingagain\WEB-IN
F\lib\servlet-api.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Of
fending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.D
igester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Aug 10, 2009 8:48:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Aug 10, 2009 8:48:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/Testingagain] startup failed due to previous errors

I have my struts.xml file in classes folder

Please help me out

i really stuck with this. since 4 days....

It's not able to load filter defined in web.xml. For time being you can just comment the filter in web.xml to check if application is strating up. Just thinking there may be compilation issue with filter.

no shiva that is not the issue
i think it with jar files..

or other not with the filter.

I don't think you are supposed to Java EE libraries in the lib folder of your application. Your tomcat has servlet and JSP libraries of its own. Remove the servlet and JSP libraries from WEB-INF/lib folder. If you need them for compilation of .java files, then compile it at some other place. Usually a build script (like ant or maven script) or any IDE will do fine...

You can follow the link http://www.techiegyan.com/?p=12 .

Thanks you very much friends i will surely try to remove the jar files and try it out

but in our company we are using.. the jsp-api.jar and servlet-api.jar

in the WEB-INF\lib

but here we are not having any issues.

You should definitely /not/ have the servlet and JSP jars in your own application: those APIs are provided by the app server itself, and using additional, possibly different, versions may cause problems, particularly during version migrations.

I'd recommend turning logging levels up in order to find what is causing the startup issue--but it sure looks like it's due to the superfluous libraries:In short:

Sun wrote:The behavior of a program that includes such classes or interfaces in its WAR file is undefined.

Other than that, without knowing more it's impossible to help.

Note that putting "URGENT" in the subject line may cause people to /not/ answer your message: I tend to ignore such messages. If it's that urgent then there's probably a quicker way to solve the problem than to wait for someone else to do it for you. See this for further details.

Yes Friends,

Thank you very much for your help

yes

1. point as above said we should not the jar files since tomcat server will provide then

2. after removing the jar files also i still have my application in false then i have noticed that the classes files were is different version, that is i have jar of java 5 and the classes were compiled in java 6 , after replacing the class files with java 5 compilation.

the application is superb... running .. thanks you very much.