Hi, I just downloaded the 1.1alpha1 and put the war in the webapps dir of tomcat. Then started tomcat, but it fails with this message: INFO: Deploying web application archive continuum-webapp-1.1-alpha-1.war log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: \logs\continuum.log (The system cannot find the path specified) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:177) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:102) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:272) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java :151) at org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.activateOptions( DailyRollingFileAppender.java:206) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate( PropertySetter.java:247) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties( PropertySetter.java:123) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties( PropertySetter.java:87) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender( PropertyConfigurator.java:645) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory( PropertyConfigurator.java:603) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory( PropertyConfigurator.java:500) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure( PropertyConfigurator.java:406) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure( PropertyConfigurator.java:340) at org.codehaus.plexus.logging.log4j.Log4JLoggerManager.start( Log4JLoggerManager.java:299) at org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.StartPhase.execute( StartPhase.java:33) at org.codehaus.plexus.lifecycle.AbstractLifecycleHandler.start( AbstractLifecycleHandler.java:128) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.startComponentLifecycle (AbstractComponentManager.java:142) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createComponentInstance (AbstractComponentManager.java:132) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.ClassicSingletonComponentManager.getComponent (ClassicSingletonComponentManager.java:90) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultComponentLookupManager.lookup( DefaultComponentLookupManager.java:147) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultComponentLookupManager.lookupMap( DefaultComponentLookupManager.java:199) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookupMap( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:309) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookupMap( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:303) at org.codehaus.plexus.container.initialization.InitializeLoggerManagerPhase.initializeCoreComponent (InitializeLoggerManagerPhase.java:47) at org.codehaus.plexus.container.initialization.AbstractCoreComponentInitializationPhase.execute (AbstractCoreComponentInitializationPhase.java:37) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.initializePhases( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:886) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.initialize( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:834) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.construct( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:811) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:222) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.( DefaultPlexusContainer.java:260) at org.codehaus.plexus.xwork.PlexusLifecycleListener.contextInitialized( PlexusLifecycleListener.java:76) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart( StandardContext.java:3827) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start( StandardContext.java:4336) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal( ContainerBase.java:761) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild( ContainerBase.java:741) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java :525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java :825) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java :714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java :490) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java :1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent( HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent( LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java :1023) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java :719) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java :1015) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java :443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start( StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java :710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413) log4j:ERROR Either File or DatePattern options are not set for appender [rolling]. 2007-04-24 11:21:32,472 [main] INFO PlexusContainer - Loading on start [role,roleHint]: [org.apache.maven.continuum.Continuum ,default] 24-apr-2007 11:21:33 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart 24-apr-2007 11:21:33 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/continuum-webapp-1.1-alpha-1] startup failed due to previous errors On top of that, my bin directory of tomcat now contains a directory called "${appserver.base}" and that one contains a "logs" directory. I'm using JDK 1.6.0_01 regards, Wim -- Vigilog - an open source log file viewer: http://vigilog.sourceforge.net Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester