struts under tomcat 3.3-m3

[Steve Salkin <ss...@NetVendor.com>]

Hi-

Just an informational note:

I have been failing to move a struts application from tomcat 3.2.2 to
3.3-m3. This seemed desirable because the new 3.3 milestone has tag pooling,
and we have a good number of struts and local tags. Not only could we not
deploy our app, we also could not deploy the struts-example.war under
3.3-m3.

On the tomcat list, I was informed that the 3.3 series tomcat no longer
places an XML parser in the application classpath. So, according to the
author there, it's either put parser.jar and jaxp.jar in the application
WEB-INF/lib (or probably also in TOMCAT_HOME/lib/apps would word) or, "just
use xerces".

In any event, adding jaxp and parser jar files to WEB-INF/lib allows the
struts-example to deploy and run correctly. So this would probably be good
to note in the server-specific deployment instructions on
jakarta.apache.org.

Thanks,

S-