I have a couple of classes that have static methods that are invoked for XSL 
transformation. This works fine with Tomcat 4.0.1. In 4.0.3, the method is 
never invoked and no exceptions are thrown at that statement, and the flow just 
stops there. I created another class that can be instantiated with no static 
methods, the Object does not get instantiated, all other Object and method 
calls work fine.

some code from that part 

//*************************
System.out.println("came after Null in  DB before transform "); 
htmlData = com.pulsar.players.xml.XMLUtilitiesNew.transform(this.getXSLPath
(),currentXML);

//*********

The print statement is executed , even "this.getXSLPath()" is executed but it 
does not go into the method!!

It baffled me a whole day, in a debugger this code works fine, but when it is 
executed through Tomcat 4.0.3, it failed again and again and ...

The quandry I am in is that the app I am developing works fine, but do not have 
the source or an executable for verion 4.0.1, which I would need for any 
deployment!!!

I will try reinstalling 4.0.3 and see if there is any difference. I hope this 
helps.

Thanks,

Ravi