title: Issues deploying application on websphere 7
body: <p>I am getting problems starting my application on Websphere 7.</p>
  
  <p>The application has jsp, jspx files.</p>
  
  <p>The application works fine on tomcat.
  However when I try to start application on web sphere 7, I get following errors in the logs</p>
  
  <p>[29/08/11 06:39:44:988 IST] 0000000b webapp        E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppinitializeExtensionProcessors SRVE0280E: Extension processor failed to initialize in factory </p>
  
  <pre><code>at com.ibm.ws.jsp.taglib.TldParser.endElement(TldParser.java:396)
  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLNSDTDValidator.endNamespaceScope(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
  at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.translator.visitor.xml.ParserFactory.parseDocument(ParserFactory.java:102)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.taglib.TldParser.parse(TldParser.java:315)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.taglib.TldParser.parseTLD(TldParser.java:266)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.taglib.TagLibraryCache.loadWebXmlMap(TagLibraryCache.java:163)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.taglib.TagLibraryCache.&lt;init&gt;(TagLibraryCache.java:102)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.&lt;init&gt;(AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.java:203)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.ws.WASJSPExtensionProcessor.&lt;init&gt;(WASJSPExtensionProcessor.java:70)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.ws.WASJSPExtensionFactory.createProcessor(WASJSPExtensionFactory.java:250)
  at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionFactory.createExtensionProcessor(AbstractJSPExtensionFactory.java:75)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initializeExtensionProcessors(WebApp.java:1241)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:339)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:292)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:99)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:167)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:722)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:607)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:376)
  at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:668)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1162)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1313)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:611)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:938)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:740)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2092)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:437)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:122)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:380)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$300(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:105)
  at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$CUInitializer.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:928)
  at com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.component.WsComponentImpl$_AsynchInitializer.run(WsComponentImpl.java:349)
  at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1527)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>[29/08/11 06:39:45:003 IST] 0000000b webapp        W com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp initializeTargetMappings SRVE0269W: No Extension Processor found for handling JSPs</p>
  
  <p>I checked the tld files in web.xml and they all exist.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea what can be the problem ?</p>