[martin_johnny1978]

I get this error with tomcat 4.1 + eclipse 3.0.2

SEVERE: Parse Error at line 6 column 52: Document root element “web-app”, must match DOCTYPE root “null”.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element “web-app”, must match DOCTYPE root “null”.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.rootElementSpecified(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfig.java:220)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:579)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:181)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3523)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:774)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:548)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:741)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:512)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:354)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:671)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:707)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1141)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:316)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2143)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:350)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:156)[quote]– System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: windows xp
Eclipse version: 3.0.2
Eclipse build id:
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): n
If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager?
Other installed external plugins:

[Riyad Kalla]

You need to use Tomcat 5, not Tomcat 4.

[martin_johnny1978]

Thanks Riyad,
What if my company wants to go with tomcat 4.1.X and struts 1.1 with eclipse, ?
Do i need to go for some lower version of eclipse ?
Please Advice
Thanks for ur reply

[Riyad Kalla]

Martin,
It shouldn’t be a problem, what you need to do is when creating a new web project, create J2EE 1.3 spec, the problem is that our default (and what you likely chose) was J2EE 1.4, which created a web.xml file that Tomcat 4 doesn’t understand.

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