deploying Petstore 1.1.2 under JBoss3.0

[westcot]

I Have deployed the example project from the JBoss Quick start guide and am now trying to deploy the petstore project. I am useing jboss3.0.0_tomcat-4.0.3 config. I have Petstore 1.1.2 from the book Jboss admin and developement published by SAMS. I have followed the instructions for deploying petstore using the patch supplied on the disk. I have managed to get the Create tables page in my browser and have created the tables although I did get "You cannot commit with autocommit set".
This is the first question - why do I get this message.
When I then try to enter the petstore I Get an exception
ERROR org.jboss.web.localhost.Engine StandardWrapperValve{webtierEntryPoint}: Allocate exception for servlet webTierEntryPoint javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet webTierEntryPoint.The root cause is java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.j2ee.blueprints.petstore.control.web.ScreenFlowXmlDAO.getRequestMappings(ScreenFlowXmlDAO.java:249)
From the log (I have put in a debug) from MainServlet init() where it does requestMappingsURL = getservletContext().getResource("/WEB-INF/xml/requestmappings.xml") it returns"jindi:/localhost/estore/WEB-INF/xml/requestMappings.xml". This is passed to ScreenFlowXmlDAO.The ScreenFlowXmlDao loadDocument throws an exception java.net.MalformedURLException unknown protocol jindi and returns null which I think is causing the problem as this is used from the code that is throwing the servlet exception. I would appreciate any feedback on this issue. I have tried to give as full an explanation as I can. Regards Richard

[altrinec]

Hi WestCot,
I solved this problem by using URL class instead of String. In the ScreenFlowXmlDAO class, find and replace "String location" to "URL location", you need to modify one more file which will be affected by this change. Try to compile just the petstore web source alone to debug easily. The compilation error will guide you what to change!!.

good luck,
altrine.