I hope the details given below will give you a better picture:
In fact, i tried to set up Sun one IDE for struts and added few jars in AppServer/lib directory.. but I inadvertantly deleted few jars.. but i dont know which are those.. I believe this is the cause of this error... But since i am a novice to this.. i couldnt get an idea...
BTW, how to create a new userdir and run the IDE...
I will follow the instructions given in your blog, meanwhile this is the error that i found in my log..
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.management.ObjectName; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 2846767152916764670, local class serialVersionUID = -5467795090068647408
Can you get something from this?
Are there any messages in the messages.log in the user directory?
Also, you can try setting the ant verbosity level to debug or verbose. (Open Tools | options dialog, select 'miscellaneous' tab, expand ant and set the verbosity level). This may give some more info that may be help to narrow down the problem.
And you may want to check the server logs too.
Regardless of the verbosity level, I get the following error in my server log:
[16/Nov/2006:10:22:49] SEVERE ( 3568): StandardWrapperValve[AdminAPIEntryServlet]: Servlet.service() for servlet AdminAPIEntryServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.management.ObjectName; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 2846767152916764670, local class serialVersionUID = -5467795090068647408
at com.iplanet.ias.admin.server.core.servlet.AdminAPIEntryServlet.doGet(AdminAPIEn tryServlet.java:117)
at com.iplanet.ias.admin.server.core.servlet.AdminAPIEntryServlet.doPost(AdminAPIE ntryServlet.java:83)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invokeServletService(StandardWrap perValve.java:720)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.access$000(StandardWrapperValve.j ava:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve$1.run(StandardWrapperValve.java:2 78)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java: 274)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:505)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java: 212)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:505)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:203)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:505)
at com.iplanet.ias.web.connector.nsapi.NSAPIProcessor.process(NSAPIProcessor.java: 157)
at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.service(WebContainer.java:598)