[Attempto] need help getting ACE Wiki running

[Murray, William R]

Tobias --

The good news is that that solution, removing that jar file,
fixes that problem as the error message no longer occurs. The
bad news is that clicking on two of the links causes three
vertical lines to appear on the output page, e.g., like this...

|||

and then I get a dialog box that says Invalid/unknown response
from server: with nothing following the colon. Furthermore, Tomcat
crashes!

More good news (!) however is that one of the three links works, that is
the Preditor link, so I can enter correct sentences such as:

           Bill drives a car. Every dog eats.

So in summary:

Works! -- Click here to enter the preditor example.

Crashes! -- Click here to enter AceWiki.

Crashes! -- Click here to enter the ACE Editor.

Any idea what to do next?

Thanks,
      Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Kuhn [mailto:t.kuhn at gmx.ch] 
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:01 AM
To: Murray, William R
Cc: attempto at lists.ifi.uzh.ch
Subject: Re: [Attempto] need help getting ACE Wiki running

Hi Bill,

We are making progress, that's good! :)

I found a blog entry of someone who had the same problem:
http://cjbaldoza.blogsome.com/2006/10/03/got-this-error-javaxxmltransfor
mtransformerfactoryconfigurationerror-provider-orgapachexalanprocessortr
ansformerfactoryimpl-not-found/

The described solution is to remove the file xml-apis.jar in the folder 
[TOMCAT_HOME]\common\endorsed.


Tobias


Murray, William R wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
> 
>  
> 
> I think we're making progress. To be sure that we are in synch...
> 
>  
> 
> - Create "webapps.war" from the Attempto Java Packages by running "ant

> createwebapps"
> 
>  
> 
>    No, I have not done this, instead just use the webapps.war file
from 
> the zip file as I didn't have ant or experience using it.
> 
>  
> 
> - Copy "webapps.war" into "TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/"
> 
>  
> 
>   No, I hadn't done this either. Instead I copied the subdirectory 
> /webapps and its subfolders from the AceWiki folder to the TomCat 
> folder. Now with this new advice I instead copied the webapps.war file

> after removing the previous subfolder and it works (!) ... sorta...see

> below...
> 
>  
> 
> - Starting up Tomcat using "./startup.sh"
> 
>  
> 
>   I use startup.bat since I am on a Windows XP machine.
> 
>  
> 
> - Tomcat then automatically extracts "webapps.war" so that a new
folder
> 
> "TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/webapps/" is created
> 
>  
> 
>   Yes, this has happened: progress :)
> 
>  
> 
> - Accessing "http://localhost:8080/webapps/" through the browser shows

> me then the links to the Attempto web applications
> 
>  
> 
>   Yes, this has happened: more progress :)
> 
>  
> 
> Have you done it the same way?
> 
>  
> 
>   As above, only with Tomcat 5.0.
> 
>  
> 
> Now the problems at this point. The web page with links:
> 
>  
> 
> Attempto Web Applications
> 
>  
> 
> Click here to enter the preditor example.
> 
>  
> 
> Click here to enter AceWiki.
> 
>  
> 
> Click here to enter the ACE Editor.
> 
>  
> 
> appears when I click "http://localhost:8080/webapps/" but each link 
> throws the exact same error.
> 
>  
> 
> I'll put the details of the stack trace in the PS of this message and 
> you can tell me what you recommend next. Thanks for your help I think 
> we'll get
> 
> there.
> 
>  
> 
> Bill
> 
>  
> 
> P.S. Here is what I get when I click on the AceWiki link:
> 
>  
> 
> 
>   *HTTP Status 500 - *
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *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
> 
> *root cause*
> 
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider
org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl not found
> 
>         javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance(Unknown
Source)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webrender.util.DomUtil$2.initialValue(DomUtil.java:79)
> 
>         java.lang.ThreadLocal.setInitialValue(ThreadLocal.java:141)
> 
>         java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(ThreadLocal.java:131)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webrender.util.DomUtil.getTransformerFactory(DomUtil.java:
99)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webrender.output.XmlDocument.render(XmlDocument.java:93)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webcontainer.WindowHtmlService.service(WindowHtmlService.j
ava:105)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webcontainer.NewInstanceService.service(NewInstanceService
.java:76)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webrender.WebRenderServlet.process(WebRenderServlet.java:2
73)
> 
>         ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.AceWikiServlet.process(Unknown
Source)
> 
>
nextapp.echo2.webrender.WebRenderServlet.doGet(WebRenderServlet.java:179
)
> 
>         javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
> 
>         javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
> 
> *note* _The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the 
> Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 logs._
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>       *Apache Tomcat/5.0.28*
> 
> The other links throw the same error.
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Kuhn [mailto:t.kuhn at gmx.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:37 AM
> To: Murray, William R
> Cc: attempto at lists.ifi.uzh.ch
> Subject: Re: [Attempto] need help getting ACE Wiki running
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
>  
> 
> Ok, let's see...
> 
>  
> 
> First of all, I made a mistake in my previous message. 
> "http://localhost:8080/webapps/" is not the
> 
> default URL for web applications in general. It is just the default
URL 
> for a web application called
> 
> "webapps.war" as the one that can be created out of the Attempto Java 
> Packages.
> 
>  
> 
> To make sure we talk about the same things, this is how I made it run 
> under Tomcat 5.5:
> 
> - Create "webapps.war" from the Attempto Java Packages by running "ant

> createwebapps"
> 
> - Copy "webapps.war" into "TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/"
> 
> - Starting up Tomcat using "./startup.sh"
> 
> - Tomcat then automatically extracts "webapps.war" so that a new
folder
> 
> "TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/webapps/" is created
> 
> - Accessing "http://localhost:8080/webapps/" through the browser shows

> me then the links to the
> 
> Attempto web applications
> 
>  
> 
> Have you done it the same way?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Tobias
> 
>  
>