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Problem getting Solaris Tomcat server 4.05 to work with JDK 1.5

Hello I have had no trouble getting Tomcat 6.0 running , however this Sun Sparc Solaris 10
server based Tomcat 4.05 fails to start. after essentially copying all the default xml conf files
I could find from a Tomcat 4.05 release I tried to launch only to get the following error:

# ./catalina.sh run
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/apache/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/apache/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/apache/tomcat/temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_07
ERROR reading /usr/apache/tomcat/conf/server.xml
At null

Catalina.start: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:336)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.xml.XmlMapper.resolveEntity(XmlMapper.java:441)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.startReadingFromExternalEntity(DefaultEntityHandler.java:750)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.startReadingFromEntity(DefaultEntityHandler.java:658)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1264)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:381)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1081)
        at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderAdapter.parse(XMLReaderAdapter.java:223)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:228)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:725)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179)
        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:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243)
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Now it occurs to me maybe the version of Java is not compatible or one of my environment variables is wrong:

There should be a way to increase the debug level in the server.xml file but I can not seem to
find a server.xml file that applies this in version 4.05 for Solaris

Frankly if anyone knows of a good place to obtain a pkgadd package that is more up todate
I would really appreciate the information
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http://raibledesigns.com/tomcat/boot-howto.html   Take a look at this and see if that helps .
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No it does not help
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