[opencms-dev] Tomcat 5.0.16 usage

[Arun Barua]

Hi,

It appears that Tomcat 4.1.29 also ships with Xerces v2.5 (file name:
xercesImpl.jar). This file is stored in the /common/endorsed/ folder. If
this file is present in the classpath it seems to override any other Xerces
package. The solution I used to solve this problem with CMS was to delete
(or rename to a non jar file) the xercesImpl.jar file (in the
/common/endorsed folder) and replace it with xerces-1_4_4.jar file supplied
with the CMS installation. Restart Tomcat and everything is honky dory. This
fix even works with Tomcat 5.0.

FYI, the full path of the folder on my machine is: C:\Program Files\Apache
Group\Tomcat 4.1\common\endorsed

- Arun

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mariano Barcia" <mariano.barcia at colaborativa.net>
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Tomcat 5.0.16 usage


> Reed,
>
> I am sure that Xerces being used in your environment is still v2.5,
> probably because of the J2SDK 1.4.2 (I strongly recommend you using
> J2SDK 1.4.1). I attach you here a tiny patch for your exception, HTH
>
> Brief instructions:
> Once opencms.war is deployed, stop the context, and replace the Xerces
> library under WEB-INF/lib, then overwrite the .class file in
> WEB-INF/classes/com/opencms/template (CmsXmlXercesParser.class) with
> this one attached, and restart the context.
>
> Notes:
> -Xerces v1.4.4 (bundled in opencms v5) consists of 1 JAR file:
>    xercesImpl.jar
> -Xerces v2.5 consists of 3 JAR files:
>    xercesImpl.jar
>    xml-apis.jar
>    xmlParserAPIs.jar
> -Tomcat/Catalina must be 4.1, and J2SDK must be 1.4.0 or 1.4.1. Have not
> tried with the new 1.4.2. Check if J2SDK is already bundled with Xerces
> 2.x
> -Have not yet tried with Xerces v2.6
>
> --mariano
>
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
> En nombre de reed.mccauley at us.abb.com
> Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Febrero de 2004 04:22 p.m.
> Para: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> CC: opencms-dev at opencms.org; opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> Asunto: Re: [opencms-dev] Tomcat 5.0.16 usage
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> Well, as recommended, I installed an older version of Tomcat (4.1.29).
> Unfortunately, it yields similar errors (see below). I'm just trying
> going through the "test demo" portion of the opencms user's manual. Is
> this not how folks get up to speed on this product? It's not a classpath
> issue as I've set it to "." before starting Tomcat; it is using the
> xerces code that comes bundled with it. As mentioned farther down, this
> is a standared W2K installation with JDK 1.4.2-02. Thanks for any help,
> Reed type Exception report message description The server encountered an
> internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
> exception
> javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica
> tionFilterChain.java:269)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt
> erChain.java:193)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv
> e.java:256)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.i
> nvokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4
> 80)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
>                  at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv
> e.java:191)
>                  at