24-Aug-06 (Created: 24-Aug-06) | More in 'Release Notes'

Special note for newer tomcat releases

When some people have tried to install loginapp4, they ran into some issues. Tomcat itself threw an exception while loading the context for loginapp4.

See if you can comment out the following line in aspire.properties

aspire.systemProperties

use a # at the begining

The trace of tomcat may look like the following

Jul 11, 2006 3:27:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig
deployDescriptor

SEVERE: Error deploying configuration descriptor manager.xml

javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl could not be instantiated:
java.lang.NullPointerException

       at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)

       at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.getFactory(Digester.java:486)

       at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.getParser(Digester.java:691)

       at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:899)

       at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1545)

       at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:561)

       at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:535)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:470)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1106)

       at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)

       at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1019)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1011)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:440)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:683)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:537)

       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409)

Jul 11, 2006 3:27:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start

INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080

Jul 11, 2006 3:27:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start

INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409)

Caused by: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl could not be
instantiated: java.lang.NullPointerException

       at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.util.DomUtil.readXml(DomUtil.java:284)

       at
org.apache.commons.modeler.modules.MbeansDescriptorsDOMSource.execute(MbeansDescriptorsDOMSource.java:130)

       at
org.apache.commons.modeler.modules.MbeansDescriptorsDOMSource.loadDescriptors(MbeansDescriptorsDOMSource.java:120)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.load(Registry.java:819)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.loadDescriptors(Registry.java:931)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.loadDescriptors(Registry.java:909)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.findDescriptor(Registry.java:992)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.findManagedBean(Registry.java:696)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.findManagedBean(Registry.java:1047)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.registerComponent(Registry.java:859)

       at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.registerComponent(Registry.java:346)

       at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.start(Connector.java:977)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:459)

       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:683)

       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:537)

       ... 6 more