How to make struts work in Eclipse and websphere?

i visited this link
http://www.struts2.org/free-struts2-book/developing-your-first-struts2-application/

followed the steps to create the struts application except that i chose websphere as my server

i imported all the jar files needed for struts to work

i dont get any compile time error but i get an exception in run time

i have posted the exception here

ERROR [Deployer] Deployment failed: plan=null, module=F:\data\Projectstest files\new\.metadata\.plugins\org.apache.geronimo.st.core\server_9_20_08_12_09_PM4\struts2demo.zip
org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: Error parsing web.xml for .
at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.deployment.TomcatModuleBuilder.createModule(TomcatModuleBuilder.java:153)
at org.apache.geronimo.web.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.createModule(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:123)
at org.apache.geronimo.web.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$459e0cc.invoke(<generated>

at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:817)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.ModuleBuilder$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$7b20bb58.createModule(<generated>

at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.SwitchingModuleBuilder.createModule(SwitchingModuleBuilder.java:94)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.SwitchingModuleBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$d0c31844.invoke(<generated>

at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:817)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.ModuleBuilder$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$7b20bb58.createModule(<generated>

at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getDeploymentPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:275)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$38e56ec6.invoke(<generated>

at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:817)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.ConfigurationBuilder$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$870dc3ca.getDeploymentPlan(<generated>

at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:232)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:124)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer$$FastClassByCGLIB$$734a235d.invoke(<generated>

at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean.invoke(KernelGBean.java:338)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean$$FastClassByCGLIB$$1cccefc9.invoke(<generated>

at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.MBeanGBeanBridge.invoke(MBeanGBeanBridge.java:168)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DynamicMetaDataImpl.invoke(DynamicMetaDataImpl.java:213)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MetaDataImpl.invoke(MetaDataImpl.java:220)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:815)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:784)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1408)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$100(RMIConnectionImpl.java:81)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1245)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1348)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:782)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor148.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:294)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:701)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: Invalid deployment descriptor: [error: cvc-complex-type.2.4a: Expected element 'web-app@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee' instead of 'web-app@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee' here, error: cvc-complex-type.2.4c: Expected element 'web-app@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee' before the end of the content]
Descriptor: <web-app xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<display-name>struts2demo</display-name>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>login.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
at org.apache.geronimo.schema.SchemaConversionUtils.validateDD(SchemaConversionUtils.java:605)
at org.apache.geronimo.schema.SchemaConversionUtils.convertToServletSchema(SchemaConversionUtils.java:323)
at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.deployment.TomcatModuleBuilder.createModule(TomcatModuleBuilder.java:147)
... 66 more

if anyone know how to solve it kindly reply

thanks in advance

Mike Java,

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Regarding your question: Just for the record, it's clear from the stack trace that you're using WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE) which is really Apache Geronimo with a few extra features added. It's important to make this distinction because the commercial WebSphere Application Server is a very different product.

Are you using the the Eclipse plugin that IBM provides for WASCE? If not, that may be the problem. See this link for details.

Also, from the stack trace it looks like the problem is with the DTD declaration in your web.xml file. It looks like the server is expecting a Java EE 5 declaration rather than a J2EE 1.4 declaration.
[ September 20, 2008: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]