Struts web component in an EAR file?

[A Harry]

Can you have a struts web component in an EAR file along with EJB's?

Using WL 8.1 (sp3) on win 2000 (sp4)

I have a web app ear file that contains 1 struts web module & 7 ejb modules. It deploys to the web server fine but when I start the web server up, the EJB's are loaded correctly but the web component throws this exception (PRDWeb being the name of the web component) -

<Servlet: "action" failed to preload on startup in Web application: "PRDWeb".
javax.servlet.ServletException
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:909)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStubImpl.java:873)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:812)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3281)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlets(WebAppServletContext.java:3226)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:3207)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.setStarted(WebAppServletContext.java:5737)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:874)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.start(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2106)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.activate(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2147)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ComponentActivateTask.activateContainer(SlaveDeployer.java:2434)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ActivateTask.doCommit(SlaveDeployer.java:2352)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$Task.commit(SlaveDeployer.java:2136)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$Task.checkAutoCommit(SlaveDeployer.java:2235)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$Task.prepare(SlaveDeployer.java:2130)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ActivateTask.prepare(SlaveDeployer.java:2315)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.processPrepareTask(SlaveDeployer.java:866)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.prepareDelta(SlaveDeployer.java:594)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.prepareUpdate(SlaveDeployer.java:508)
at weblogic.drs.internal.SlaveCallbackHandler$1.execute(SlaveCallbackHandler.java:25)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
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The top part of my web.xml file looks like this -

<web-app>

<display-name>Project Report Database</display-name>

<servlet>

<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
.......

I think it's the ActionServlet it's having problem with? even though the struts.jar file is in the WEB-INF/lib!

Any ideas? this has me completely stumped!!!

thanks

harry