After some efforts I finally get cobertura running correctly for my web application on a tomcat server. Everything seems fine until I committed it to the svn and hudson finished(failed) his work. Without this build script I would have never (or later) discovered this issue. My build script tried to move the catalina.log to another directory but the catalina.log was missing. After some testing I as
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