Bug#294707: Tomcat ignores "allowLinking" yields *very* misleading error mess age

[Spielmann, Holger (EXTERN: TOJAQ)]

Hi,

to emphasize the importance of this problem, I would like to
add that the error message yielded by this bug is very
irritating and can lead to an extended debugging session:

2005-04-25 14:58:38 ContextConfig[/admin] Exception processing JAR at
resource path /WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar
javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception processing JAR at resource path
/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanJar(ContextConfig.java:881)
[...]
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:156)
----- Root Cause -----
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid TLD resource path
/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanJar(ContextConfig.java:839)
[...]

Casual lusers like me tend to blame a bug in struts.jar, some
XML processing library or tomcat4-admin before they reach for
the real cause.
:-(

It would be great if this could be solved with a higher
priority.
TIA

Best regards,
Holger Spielmann
TOJAQ GmbH