Hi everybody! Please help me with this! I don

Most likely another older cglib jar in your classpath. Remove all old jars.

cglib jar? Sorry my lack of knowledge...
what old jars do you mean? The hibernate jars? Struts jars? or my own jars?
thanks again

Jars from an older hibernate distribution or any other source of cglib.jar, cglib-asm.jar or anything like this. There should only be cglib2.jar in your classpath. http://www.hibernate.org/74.html#A10

Michael, I do every single thing that you told me and now tomcat throws an exception when I initialize it.

Apr 15, 2004 2:28:49 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.29
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:112)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:127)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:92) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.setRepositories(WebappLoader.java:1066)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.start(WebappLoader.java:665)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3545)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:363)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2190)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
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:203)
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:00 PM org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources <init>
INFO: Initializing, config='org.apache.struts.util.LocalStrings', returnNull=true
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:01 PM org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources <init>
INFO: Initializing, config='org.apache.struts.action.ActionResources', returnNull=true
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:03 PM org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources <init>
INFO: Initializing, config='org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationResources', returnNull=true
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:14 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:16 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Apr 15, 2004 2:29:16 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=40/370 config=D:\Tomcat 4.1\conf\jk2.properties

thanks again

it means one of jar files is broken, try "jar -t myfile.jar" to validate files

Great ! I think I had the same problem. I remove one old cglib and it works.

Thanks !