Errors when using Struts 1.3.x that are not intuitive javax.servlet.ServletException: org/apache/commons/lang/UnhandledException

Today, I decided to upgrade a new application that I was working on to Struts 1.3.10. After getting the necessary jars and stuff from the struts-blank.war, and upgrading my webapp library with those, everything was fine until I ran into this error. Apparently, Struts 1.3.x removed some jars from the distribution, and the dependecies had to be resolved externally. The error gave me no clue that it was unable to find the commons-lang.jar. After struggling with it for sometime, I finally figured out that the commons-lang.jar was the missing jar. Usually when a jar is missing we get a NoClassDefFoundError that points in the right way, but the error trace for this gave no clue at all. Anyways if you happen to run into this error the key is to have the commons-lang.jar in your classpath from this location Apache Commons

2009-01-09 17:30:34,001 ERROR InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag - ServletException in '/pages-bdb/batchListDetail.jsp': org/apache/commons/lang/UnhandledException
javax.servlet.ServletException: org/apache/commons/lang/UnhandledException
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:244)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:590)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:510)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:966)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:610)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.include(PageContextImpl.java:604)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtilImpl.doInclude(TilesUtilImpl.java:129)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtil.doInclude(TilesUtil.java:152)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag.doInclude(InsertTag.java:764)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:896)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:465)
at org.apache.jsp.pages.shared.template_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_insert_2(template_jsp.java:173)
at org.apache.jsp.pages.shared.template_jsp._jspService(template_jsp.java:92)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:474)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:409)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:312)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1083)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:295)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processTilesDefinition(TilesRequestProcessor.java:271)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(TilesRequestProcessor.java:332)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:232)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:462)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)