... because the following things were not in /usr/share/tomcat4/common/lib, when I think they should have been: commons-dbcp.jar commons-pool.jar jdbc2_0-stdext.jar jndi.jar jta.jar The first one, dbcp, was probably what suddenly made the struts-legacy be required. So, looks like some stuff is missing from the tomcat4 package, namely the jar files above. Tim