Cactus -Ant Integration (Sample Servlet): Build failed to start the container (tomcat)

Hello All:

I am trying to automate in-container testing using ant integration using Cactus.
I downloaded jakarta-cactus-13-1.7. and running sample servlet application. When I run build ("ant dist") it compiles, cactifies and during testing it hangs to open tomcat and I get error message:

Failed to start the container after more than [180000] ms. Trying to connect to the [http://localhost:8080/cactus-sample-servlet-cactified/ServletRedirector?Cactus_Service=RUN_TEST]

I am using
ANT_HOME=C:\Programs\apache-ant-1.6.5
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06
CACTUS_HOME=C:\Programs\jakarta-cactus-13-1.7.2

Thanks!

Atul