[olutayos]

I am trying to deploy a small application in websphere 5.1 very similar to the helloworld example provided in tutorials.

Websphere has been properly configured and I am able to start it up from within myeclipse.

On deploying the EAR file that was generated I get the following error message in websphere

[2/9/06 10:51:51:576 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R AppDeploymentException: []
com.ibm.etools.archive.exception.DeploymentDescriptorLoadException: WEB-INF/web.xml
[2/9/06 10:51:51:576 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R com.ibm.etools.archive.exception.DeploymentDescriptorLoadException: WEB-INF/web.xml
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R Stack trace of nested exception:
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R com.ibm.etools.j2ee.exception.WrappedRuntimeException: IWAE0099E An Exception occurred while parsing xml: Line #: 6 :Column #: 52
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R Stack trace of nested exception:
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "web-app", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:616 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:626 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.xml.bridge.GeneralXmlDocumentReader.parse(GeneralXmlDocumentReader.java:208)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:626 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.xml.bridge.GeneralXmlDocumentReader.parseDocument(GeneralXmlDocumentReader.java:231)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:626 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.xml.DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.importFrom(DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.java:186)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:626 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.xml.DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.importFrom(DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.java:177)
[2/9/06 10:51:51:626 EST] 46f03445 SystemErr     R     at com.ibm.etools.j2ee.xml.DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.load(DeploymentDescriptorImportExport.java:220)
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The actual contents of the web.xml file are :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" 
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

</web-app>

What could be the problem ?

[Riyad Kalla]

WebSphere 5.1 only supports J2EE 1.3 spec. You are attempting to deploy a Web 2.4 spec web.xml file (which is part of the J2EE 1.4 spec) to WebSphere 5.1 which won’t work.

I would suggest creating a new J2EE 1.3 project and moving over your files being sure to change your web.xml file appropriately to match the skeleton one created.

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