How to resolve Error listenerStart when deploying web-app in Tomcat 5.5?

You should not have any server-specific libraries in the /WEB-INF/lib. Leave them in the appserver’s own library. It would only lead to collisions in the classpath. Get rid of all appserver-specific libraries in /WEB-INF/lib (and also in JRE/lib and JRE/lib/ext if you have placed any of them there). A common cause that the appserver-specific libraries are included in the webapp’s library is that starters … Read more