Hi, I've installed (only) kaffe and tomcat5 (tried testing, stable, and unstable) onto a debbootstrap. It works OK for static content, but fails when I install a WAR file containing a struts-based app. (I've tried the Ibatis jpetstore app as well as other local struts apps that were lying around.) The error is a sealing violation for org.apache.commons.collections.FastHashMap (org.apache.commons.collections is sealed).
I traced the interfering package to a jar file in the war file: commons-beanutils.jar, which has a few of the collections package classes in it (including FastHashMap) in addition to the bean utils stuff, and thus causes the sealing violation against the commons-collections3.jar file in /usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib. I tried building a new jar file for the webapp with the org.apache.commons.collections package removed: but the servlet won't load. Unfortunately, all I see is a mesage reporting an exception while creating bean com.ibatis.jpetstore.presentation.CatalogBean -- no details as to why either in the message or preceding it in the log. The war file works fine (with its original jar file that contains the puzzling partial duplicate of the collections package) in other Tomcat 5 installations, on both Windows and Linux systems. It seems to be something about the Debian tomcat5 package that introduces the sealing violation. I've tried mucking with the libs in /usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib (under the belief that these are shared among all web apps) without any luck -- anything I remove seems to break something new. I've also investigated the classpath in the startup script but don't see much to play with there (I'm not sure if this affects the set of packages that the webapps see or not.) My questions: - Is there something well known about using struts webapps with the Debian tomcat5 package? (Special config needed, don't try it, etc.) - Is there another way to control the common packages seen by webapps other than /usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib? - Should I perhaps give up on the Debian package and install Tomcat directly from the Apache downloads? - Did Apace perhaps leave the packages unsealed and Debian added sealing for added security? Sorry, if this query doesn't belong in this list, but since the war files work elsewhere, it seems like there's something Debian-specific going on here and I don't see any more-specific list among the lists Debian. Thanks for any help or advice, Colin Brown Franklin University - CIS Colin William Brown (Bill) Visiting Professor -- Computer Science Franklin University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-614-341-6218 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
