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java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ID_PREFIX in Eclipse project [duplicate]

I am receiving this error on running my project and the result is 404 ultimately. The project is made on Spring framework.
I read a lot of posts and found that there is either a mix up of jars or extra jars. Following which I tried to organize my jars. The following list is what I have in my build path:
antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm.jar
asm-attrs.jar
cglib-2.2.jar
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.1.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-email-1.0.jar
commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar
commons-io-1.2.jar
commons-lang-2.5.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
displaytag-1.0-b3.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.1.jar
hibernate3.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA.jar
hsqldb.jar
itext-2.1.3.jar
javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar
jdom.jar
jstl-1.2.jar
jta-1.1.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar
msbase.jar
mssqlserver4v65.jar
msutil.jar
mysql.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin.jar
ojdbc14.jar
persistence-api-1.0.jar
poi-3.0-alpha2.jar
servlet-2.3.jar
slf4j-api-1.6.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-simple-1.6.6.jar
spring-asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-hibernate3-2.0.8.jar
spring-web-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
sqljdbc4.jar
standard.jar
tree.jar
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar
wloracle.jar
wlsqlserver.jar
Here goes the stacktrace
SEVERE: Error loading WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
/WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader#ca2dce
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1360)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1083)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:981)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4058)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4364)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:51)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:409)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:116)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTLDLocation(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:315)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.<init>(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:148)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:420)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:483)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1433)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:133)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:216)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:103)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:153)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:314)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:294)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:281)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:317)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I have deleted many jars, which I thought, are repetitive.
My question is whether all these jars are exactly enough or are there duplicates?
Please help, this 404 is killing me...

You have a lot of duplicated jars there:
antlr
jta
mysql-connector
javassist
mssqlserver
I would make sure you only have one of each before continuing, work out which version you need and include that one.
If you are not sure how to do this, let us know how you are importing your dependencies.
It would also be helpful to see the stacktrace you are seeing and a simplified Spring context that causes the error.
If you look at this question: JasperException: absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved
You need to make sure you have the right version of JSTL, maybe once you remove the duplicate JSTL it may fix that error.

My guess would be deleting spring.jar and spring-1.2.6.jar ; they conflict with spring*3.0.3.RELEASE.jars
And my two cents would be using maven when working with spring framework.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ELException

I am working on a web application and I have been facing this issue for a while after looking at multiple post I still was unable to solve this issue. I'm using tomcat 7.0.23 which provides el-api which i believe is the jar thought to be missing. I have not included any jar files in the WEB-INF/lib folder at all I am adding all of my dependencies through pom.xml because of maven. I have attempted all of the possible quick fixes i could think of including maven clean/install server clean(multiple times), project clean, adding tomcat to the targeted runtimes. in my build path is tomcat, jdk1.6, and maven)
The pom.xml and web.xml files that I am using are identical my other team members and they are currently working so i don't believe the issue is there.
Here is the error I am getting when starting the server
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ELException
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.AbstractFacesInitializer._createFacesContext(AbstractFacesInitializer.java:403)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.AbstractFacesInitializer.initStartupFacesContext(AbstractFacesInitializer.java:376)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4765)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5260)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1515)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.el.ELException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader.findClass(Launcher.java:229)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 13 more
these are the dependices after a maven clean/ install
activation-1.1.jar
antlr-2.7.7.jar
aopalliance-1.0.jar
asm-3.3.1.jar
captcha-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cmu_time_awb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cmu_us_kal-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cmudict04-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cmulex-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cmutimelex-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar
commons-cli-1.2.jar
commons-codec-1.3.jar
commons-collections-3.2.1.jar
commons-digester-1.8.1.jar
commons-el-1.0.jar
commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-io-1.3.1.jar
commons-lang-2.6.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
commons-pool-1.5.4.jar
commons-validator-1.3.1.jar
cxf-api-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-bindings-soap-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-bindings-xml-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-core-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-frontend-simple-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-transports-http-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-ws-addr-2.7.0.jar
cxf-rt-ws-policy-2.7.0.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ejb3-persistence-1.0.2.GA.jar
en_us-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
freemarker-2.3.9.jar
freetts-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
freetts-jsapi10-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.7.1.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-3.1.0.GA.jar
hibernate-core-3.3.1.GA.jar
javassist-3.4.GA.jar
javax.ws.rs-api-2.0-m10.jar
jaxb-impl-2.1.13.jar
jcaptcha-1.0-mod-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
jdom-1.1.jar
jettison-1.0.jar
jsf-facelets-1.1.6.jar
jta-1.1.jar
jtds-1.2.4.jar
junit-4.7.jar
jxl-2.6.12.jar
log4j-1.2.17.jar
mail-1.4.5.jar
myfaces-api-2.1.0.jar
myfaces-impl-2.1.0.jar
neethi-3.0.2.jar
oro-2.0.8.jar
primefaces-3.3.jar
slf4j-api-1.6.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.6.6.jar
spring-aop-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-asm-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-batch-core-2.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-batch-infrastructure-2.0.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-support-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-jdbc-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-core-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-core-tiger-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-ldif-batch-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-ldif-core-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-odm-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-orm-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-test-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-tx-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar
stax2-api-3.1.1.jar
tomahawk-1.1.6.jar
velocity-1.6.2.jar
woodstox-core-asl-4.1.4.jar
wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar
xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar
xml-resolver-1.2.jar
xmlschema-core-2.0.3.jar
xpp3_min-1.1.4c.jar
xstream-1.3.jar

The “javax.el.ExpressionFactory” class belongs to the “el-api.jar” library, you can download it from Maven central repository.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>el-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</dependency>
and place it in tomcat/lib directory.
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Exception when running Tomcat server org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addServlet

I've written a couple of servlets on my local machine using eclipse. I've tested them on my local machine and everything works perfectly fine.
I then exported my project as a .war file and put it under the webapps directory of my tomcat in another machine to which I only have ssh access to. I restarted my tomcat server and after looking at the log files I see that it's throwing the following exception:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addServlet
at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.callMethod1(IntrospectionUtils.java:855)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:201)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1051)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:604)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1759)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2915)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:819)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:748)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:123)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1208)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:525)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.parseWebXml(ContextConfig.java:1875)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.getDefaultWebXmlFragment(ContextConfig.java:1472)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1250)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:968)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1646)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
No idea what this means?

I found the solution here.
I was right as in you don't need to have the web.xml anymore. You can simply use annotations to define paths for your servlet. But the problem was that I was including catalina.jar in my lib which was causing issues. Removing catalina.jar fixed things up!

I met this problem after I use maven into my project. As Adam said, I removed all tomcat libs in the maven dependencies and then the problem fixed.

Problem starting a Spring MVC webapp in Eclipse with Tomcat, IllegalArgumentException

When I start the application from Eclipse, I get the following error:
SEVERE: Error starting static Resources
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base C:\Users\myUser\Workspaces\ProjectName\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\projectName does not exist or is not a readable directory
at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:140)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:4814)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:4994)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1033)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:774)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1033)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:727)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:620)
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:303)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431)
Jul 4, 2011 5:12:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error in resourceStart()
I've added a Tomcat 7.0.12 in Servers, and I added the app. in 'Configured' in the 'Add or Remove...' window. I've also tried with Tomcat 6.0.x.
I think I have a problem in some of the *xml files, but don't know which one to check or paste here first.
And to note that I can make a war file with Maven and when I deploy it and start it on a Tomcat server the app works. But from Eclipse I cannot start it.

You need to delete the tmp0 folder, bounce Eclipse and retry. This usually happens when Eclipse does not exit gracefully while the embedded server is running. You should stop the server before exiting Eclipse, that should help.

Tomcat Restart automatically Web Application on startup, after error

I've a big trouble on tomcat.
Before explaine, let me tell is the first time I see something like this...
I'm building an application using JPA on Hibernate, Spring 3.0 and Jersey REST Framework.
When using glassfish, everything works fine, but deployng the same application on tomcat, I registered the following error code:
GRAVE: Error deploying configuration descriptor java-zero.xml
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/jersey/spi/container/servlet/ServletContainer
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2527)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1010)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1483)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1361)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1095)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4187)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4496)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
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:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1516)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1361)
... 34 more
Then tomcat restarts the application and again, the same error. In an infinite loop.
Looks like a library conflict, but I really don't have any ideas on how to solve it...
Any suggestion is appreciated!
Ciao, Davide.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer suggests that you either don't have the Jersey JAR file or you've put it in the wrong place.
If it's the former, download it here and add it to Tomcat.
If it's the latter, put it and all its dependencies in either your WEB-INF/lib, server/lib for Tomcat 5.x or lib for Tomcat 6.x. (Just one, not all.)
It works with Glassfish because they've bundled it for you. Tomcat has not.

Remove all Jersey JAR from /WEB_INF/lib folder, refresh project and again paste all JARs of Jersey library into /WEB_INF/lib. Refresh project, stop server again, deploy and run.

It looks like either jersey.jar and/or jsr311-api.jar are missing from your webapp. You might check they are in the WEB-INF/lib folder.