Full stack trace for "SEVERE: Error listenerStart"

One of the very painful error, I have received when starting the tomcat 'SEVERE: Error listenerStart'. I can not even understand why tomcat is giving errors in such a poor manner by wasting lots of our time. This is server error, but it does not give enough information to get rid of that. 

As it says, this may be some configuration problems which failed creation of some listener. For example, it may be some problem with your spring configuration which prevents creating ContextLoaderListener.

Sometime, this may be a problem of misconfiguration of a filter. You may have configured a filter in web.xml, but the relevant filter class is not found. 

Most of you will happy, if we can get the full stack trace of above exception.You can create 'logging.properties' file in your project source so that, it will be in 'classes' folder  of your deployment archive. You can place it within 'src' folder or within 'resources' folder in your source based on your project type. The project may be tomcat project or maven project or dynamic web project. 

After creating that file, place the following contents within it.

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].level = INFO
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

Now try to start the tomcat and you will see full stack trace of above poor indication.

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