Working with RVDB in Belgium, I've been helping to investigate problems building and running the eXist WAR distro (trunk) on Windows. It appears to be the case that the WAR distro does not run correctly on Windows unless an additional stax jar file is added (this jar was recently removed from trunk, as it was thought to be unnecessary). We have now clarified and confirmed the symptoms and solution, and RVDB wil make a detailed bug report. We don't run eXist under Windows ourselves, but 70% of eXist downloads came from Windows users over the last few years, so it's important that the upcoming new version work well on Windows.