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Root cause exception NoSuchMethodException for javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.pushBody(Ljava/io/Writer(wink)

Symptoms:

While trying to access the very first page (right after installation, you get this exception

Cause

XPlanner must be running on a servlet 2.4 compatible container (Tomcat5.0+). Tomcat4.1 does not work.

Root cause NullPointerException in UseBeansTag.doEndTag

Symptoms:

While trying to access the very first page, you get this exception

Cause

  • If you are running 0.6.2, you may have specified your db connection settings directly in resource/xplanner.properties. A bug in 0.6.2 build system makes it only look in resource/xplanner-custom.properties. Specify your db connection settings in resource/xplanner-custom.properties instead.
  • Otherwise, check your connection settings. This exception indicates that xplanner could not create a connection.

While running ant install.db.schema get ERROR cannot find hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd

Symptoms

Output of 'ant install.db.schema'

Causes

The XML parser used requires internet access to download hibernate-mapping-2.0.

Remove the following line to all xml files in the resources/mappings folder

Exception SQLException: Server configuration denies access to data source

Symptoms

Causes

/etc/hosts is wrong. It had

/etc/hosts

It should be

/etc/hosts

Thanks for Bart Verwilst for this tip

NullPointerException using SOAP

Environment

Im using Xplanner 0.6.2, Tomcat 5.5, and axis 1.2.

Cause & Solutions

I downgraded from Tomcat 5.5.4 to 5.0.28 and suddenly the NPW went away and getProjects returned the list of projects known to XPlanner

"error: unrecognized character in input stream" Compilation error while building xplanner

Environment

Os: RedHat Enterprise Linus AS 3

Java : j2sdk1.4.2_08

ant : apache-ant-1.6.5

xplanner : xplanner_0.6.2

tomcat : tomcat-5.5.9

Symptoms:

https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1328642&forum_id=161120

While building xplanner, get weird compilation error like "unrecognized character in input stream. "

Cause & Solutions

This was caused by the version of ant that I was using. I installed a newer version of ant, updated the ANT_HOME, and edited the /etc/ant.conf file.

XPlanner servlet container running under Fedora 4 cannot connect to the database server

Environment

Fedora 4, JDK1.4.2

Symptoms:

org.apache.commons.dbcp.DbcpException: java.sql.SQLException: Unable to connect to any hosts due to exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address

Cause & Solutions

Disable ipv6 or add to your servlet container VM this option

See this for more details.

Make mysql store chinese characters

  1. In mysql my.ini configuration file put
  2. Modify the connection url in xplanner/WEB-INF/classes/xplanner-custom.properties

Running on Fedora Core 4 with default java components gets NoClassDefFoundError in db install and page view

Environment

Fedora Core 4, java gcj

Symptoms:

  1. Problem in database creation ./install.sh new
  2. In page view

Cause & Solutions

gcj is not fully compatible with the version of java used to compile xplanner. Please install the sun vm following these instructions

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