Hi,
I do the same thing but i haven't seen this exception. My code for starting catalina is this:


server=MBeanServerFactory.createMBeanServer();

catalina=new CatalinaManager();

catalina.setPath("path_to_catalina");

catalinaName=new ObjectName("jmx.Adaptor:name=Catalina");

server.registerMBean(catalina,catalinaName);

//And finally

catalina.start();



In my classpath i have put all the jar files that come with the catalina distribution.



Hope this helps.