Catalina on Mac OS X - filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter cl

[fadeluca]

I downloaded JBoss2.4.4-Tomcat4.0.1 to try on my iMac at home which is running Mac OS X 10.1. When I try to run the Catalina server by itself, I can bring up the index page, but if I try to access the examples/jsp or examples/servlets, I get an HTTP status 404 error. Looking at the logs, I found the following error in the

localhost_examples_log.2002-03-16.txt

file:

2002-03-16 22:10:34 StandardContext[/examples]: Exception starting filter Set Character Encoding
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1307)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1156)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:314
)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3065)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3371)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:612)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:307)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:388)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:505)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:776)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243)

2002-03-16 22:10:34 StandardContext[/examples]: Context startup failed due to previous errors
2002-03-16 22:10:34 SessionListener: contextDestroyed()
2002-03-16 22:10:34 ContextListener: contextDestroyed()

It appears that Catalina is expecting to use a class called filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter, but cannot find it. I have seen some other posts regarding the tools.jar file that normally exists in the libs directory of the JDK installation, but does not exist in this directory under the Mac OS X JDK 1.3.1 installation. Does anyone know if this class file is part of tools.jar? I saw a post from warjort that seemed to indicate this jar file is located elsewhere in Mac OS X installations, but I cannot seem to find it. Since people seem to be running Catalina on Mac OS X, I am hoping someone can help me resolve this problem.

Thanks

[adrian.brock]

I don't think it is called it tools.jar on Mac OS.
tools.jar contains the compiler on other OSs.

Regards,
Adrian

[fadeluca]

Adrian,

Thanks for your speedy reply. Do you know what it is called on Mac OS X? I searched through all the jar files I could find in the installation, doing a

jar tf

to see if I could locate the filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter class, without success. I know you mentioned in your other posts that some core developers were using Mac OS X, so I figure there has to be an answer to this class I seem to be missing.

Thanks

[adrian.brock]

I found this link on the net

http://www.apachelabs.org/tomcat-user/200108.mbox/%3c000d01c13072$2ce98130$4c0a28c1@TVI%3e

You can find the example mentioned in the catalina directory

Regards,
Adrian

[javaseeds]

Here's a possible cause of that error.

I was having getting almost the same error messages in my log files with the standard Catalina install and it turned out to be because I was using Stuffit Expander to decompress the .tar.gz file.

I threw out the corrupted Catalina install and used gunzip and gnutar to reinstall and the errors disappeared and Catalina loads perfectly fine.

Hope this helps