Dear all, Reading the book from Michael Yuan, I tried to deploy a seam project to Tomcat. Just exactly as written in his book, I used Ant to pack the book examples: "tomcatjpa" and "tomcatejb3" to tomcatjpa.war (and tomcatejb3.war) and deployed it on a fresh installed Tomcat 5.5.23 (by copying the war-file into the Tomcat webapps-folder and restarting Tomcat) I can't attach the war-file, because it takes more than 10MB, but I used exactly the sources which are available under: http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/seam-next-gen-web-framework/#SeamDownload (Sample projects for JBoss AS 4.2.0 GA) I got Java 6 and Ant 1.7 (stable version) on my system. When I call "http://servername:8080/tomcatjpa/hello.seam" from Browser, I get an error message, that the FacesContextFactory cannot be found. This error is the same for tomcatjpa and tomcatejb3 My Stacktrace is: type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) root cause java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:263) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:142) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Please help me, finding the solution to that problem. I am planning to set up a seam project running on Tomcat 5.5 (I am not allowed to use JBoss; I know, this is bad), beginning soon, so I really appreciate any comment on my little problem. Thank you so much for your kind help in advance, J. Melzer ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php