Hello there I have installed Apache Tomcat 4.0.2 in my d:\tomcat directory. My problem is that when i run Startup.bat in my bin folder, i get the following message: USING CATALINA_BASE :\TOMCAT USING CATALINA_HOME :\TOMCAT USING JAVA_HOME:C:\JDK1.3\BIN EXCEPTION DURING STARTUP PROCESSING... java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError : Provider Null could not be instantiated java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.catalina.startup... org........ .... Could anybody please bail me out of this factory exception? thanks in advance Gaurav Kathotia
Thomas Paul
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JAVA_HOME should be pointing to the highest level jDK directory, not the bin directory. Try: SET JAVA_HOME=C:\JDK1.3
I had printed my JAVA_HOME wrongly.it was already set to c:\jdk1.3 and not c:\jdk1.3\bin why am i still getting the error? Has it got to do something with XML4J parser? Thanking you again
Thomas Paul
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Maybe. Make sure there aren't any XML parsers on your classpath when you start up Tomcat.
Gaurav Kathotia
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thanks for the help. i have now installed tomcat 3.3a and that is running as smooth as possible withour startup problems thanks gaurav
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