Problem With Tomcat

[Rahul RM Desai <ra...@aztec.soft.net>]

Hi all,

I am facing this unusual problem. Today, I am not able to start the Tomcat v3.1(Win NT 4.0).
When I use the "tomcat run" option, I get the following exception :


D:\Installs\jakarta-tomcat\bin>tomcat run
Using classpath: d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\classes;d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\lib\jasper.jar;d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\lib\xml.jar;d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\lib\servlet.jar;d:\jdk1.2.2\lib\tools.jar;
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.xml.parser.Parser
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:191)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:290)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:124)
        at org.xml.sax.helpers.ParserFactory.makeParser(ParserFactory.java:124)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:191)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:143)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163)
FATAL: configuration error
java.lang.Exception: Error creating sax parser
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:207)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:143)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163)

When we tried importing the same com.sun.xml.parser.Parser in another test java file, It is properly compiling and executing.
Why is the tomcat failing to locate the com.sun.xml.parser.Parser(in the xml.jar file)?The xml.jar file, as you can see is set in the classpath properly.



Note :
 1. We also tried the 
"java -cp d:\installs\jakarta-tomcat\lib\xml.jar -Dtomcat.home="%TOMCAT_HOME%" org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat"
option, which gave the same exception.

2. We tried a fresh Installation of tomcat, which didn't help.

3. This is happening only on my machine.This was recently affected by the navidad virus, but was cleaned.

Any help regarding this problem will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
regards
Rahul Desai