Tomcat Startup Problems

[Joe Harry]

During startup of my Tomcat instance, I get the following error:

27.05.2011 20:20:47 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Set web app root system property: 'webapp.root' = [H:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\webapps\Quintilis31Web\]
27.05.2011 20:20:47 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing log4j from [H:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\webapps\Quintilis31Web\WEB-INF\log4j.properties]
27.05.2011 20:20:47 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
27.05.2011 20:20:53 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception starting filter struts2
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager$FileRevision.needsReloading(FileManager.java:209)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager.fileNeedsReloading(FileManager.java:60)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.needsReload(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:325)
	at org.apache.struts2.config.StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.needsReload(StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.java:168)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.conditionalReload(ConfigurationManager.java:220)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:61)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.getContainer(Dispatcher.java:774)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:191)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:295)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:422)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:115)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4071)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4725)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:675)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:601)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:502)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1315)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
27.05.2011 20:20:53 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext
27.05.2011 20:20:53 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Shutting down log4j
27.05.2011 20:20:54 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
27.05.2011 20:20:54 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()

From where does this arise?

[Tim Holloway]

opensymphony is best known for their Quartz scheduler. As a VERY rough guess, I might think that there's an issue with its config file.