Spring Application ****************** Working through: http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-step/Spring-MVC-step-by-step-Part-1.html To deploy had to give permissions/create folder/subfolders for: :: /opt/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost/springapp/ The ant file command for build works fine. But ant deploy, install and deploywar do not seem to produce a working installation. But I can deploy the war file and get a working system.