missing web.xml

[Anthony Karta]

"[ContextConfig] Missing application web.xml, using defaults only StandardEngine"

anyone can help me out why I got the message above?

fyi, I archive the web apps using WAR, not ant. so I don't have META-INF folder. is that matter?

TIA,
tony

[Christophe Verré]

Do you have web.xml under WEB-INF ?

[Aaron Evans]

I have the exact same problem with one of my apps.

The webapp directory structure gets deleted, but the war file is never unpacked. I have to manually unpack the war file, tomcat restarts don't do the trick.

I have found various postings around the internet about this and I have found that the common denominators in my case seem to be when the application is a struts based application and is deployed on tomcat 5.5.

Thus, I feel it is a tomcat 5.5 bug or a struts bug. But I can't figure out any more than this...

[Reid M. Pinchback]

Maybe something is munged in the temporary directory where the wars get expanded in the JBoss/Tomcat installation? I've seen that happen before, where the container thinks the munged stuff is "newer" than the working materials, so you don't get anywhere until you shut down the server, clean out old files, and then bring it back up again.