Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25, RedShift<redshift at pandora.be> wrote: > I have found a few references on the errors with some conclusive information on the tomcat mailinglist [4], stating that dbcp won't build with a java 6 compiler. > > So at this point my mind is blank, "now what?". Well, you can try to install JDK 1.5.0 from Sun and see if it builds then. For instructions: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS#head-3f98853bcb757ab29ddf3aa8e2b5c939f59445d6 I would also recommend that you use the JPackage (www.jpackage.org) repositories for Java software, they package Java software in RPMs for and IMO it works very well. HTH, Filipe