The deployment descriptor is not loading correctly. I did a quick search on
Google and found another case like yours. Websphere wants to use a different
DTD when parsing the web.xml file.
Does your web.xml point to
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd? Load that and you'll get a message from sun:
The file named http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd
has been renamed to http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd
in the most current version of the specification.
Please update your application to use the new name.
Check the
thread at
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?thread=480604&forum=331&message=2239379 and see if that matches up with what you've seen in your app.
HTH,
Joe