See attached war. 6de5147
07:38:33,928 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "essc-portal.war" 07:38:34,384 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-10) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."essc-portal.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."essc-portal.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "essc-portal.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:123) [jboss-as-server-7.1.3.CR1.jar:7.1.3.CR1] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:80) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:116) [jboss-as-server-7.1.3.CR1.jar:7.1.3.CR1] ... 5 more