error initializing acl filter

We get an error message while logiing in to the application. ACL filter is defined in the web.xml file and tthe below error message is thrown in the init() method of the Access Control Filter which gets invoked when you restart the application/server/JVM


INFO: ##########################
 INFO: Initializing Access Control Filter. Activation status is: false
 INFO: ##########################
FATAL: IOException:
java.net.SocketException: Socket Closed
      at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.setOption(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
      at java.net.Socket.setTcpNoDelay(Socket.java:783)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:305)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:354)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:139)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:212)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:140)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:319)
      at weblogic.net.http.SOAPHttpURLConnection.getInputStream(SOAPHttpURLConnection.java:28)
      at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:913)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:836)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:796)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDTDScannerImpl.java:275)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:841)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:329)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:525)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:581)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152)
      at weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1175)
      at weblogic.xml.jaxp.WebLogicXMLReader.parse(WebLogicXMLReader.java:135)
      at weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistryXMLReader.parse(RegistryXMLReader.java:152)
      at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
      at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:143)
      at com.pfizer.ost.util.WebXmlParser.doParseFile(WebXmlParser.java:56)
      at com.pfizer.ost.filters.AccessControlFilter.parseACLFiles(AccessControlFilter.java:581)
      at com.pfizer.ost.filters.AccessControlFilter.init(AccessControlFilter.java:552)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$FilterInitAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:7074)
      at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
      at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.registerFilter(WebAppServletContext.java:3091)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.initFilters(WebAppServletContext.java:3062)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:3380)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.setStarted(WebAppServletContext.java:6262)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:892)
      at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.start(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2181)
      at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.activate(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2222)
      at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.activate(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2169)
      at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$Application.setActivation(SlaveDeployer.java:3111)
      at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.setActivationStateForAllApplications(SlaveDeployer.java:1769)
      at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.resume(SlaveDeployer.java:352)
      at weblogic.management.deploy.DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.resume(DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.java:229)
      at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemManager.resume(SubsystemManager.java:136)
      at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.resume(T3Srvr.java:965)
      at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:360)
      at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
FATAL: ##########################
FATAL: WARNING! SECURITY INIT FAILURE! Could not PARSE web xml or ost ACL! Security override engaged! Access to the application has been disabled for all users!
FATAL: ##########################