2 Replies Latest reply on Apr 8, 2008 3:45 PM by jhs2zz

    newbie question:install failed and cannot start application

    jhs2zz

      Hi all, I am stuck with getting the basics to work... I followed the installation instructions and installed it as a webapplication under tomcat 6. But the webap couldnt load properly. The error message during server startup is:

      INFO: Reading config jar:file:/E:/3atuition-tomcat/webapps/myfaces-1.1.6/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-impl-3.2.0.GA.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
      08-Apr-2008 17:31:04 org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error
      SEVERE: Parse Error at line 2 column 14: Document is invalid: no grammar found.
      org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document is invalid: no grammar found.
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:250)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:626)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3084)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:912)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:645)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:508)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
       at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
       at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1572)
       at org.apache.myfaces.config.impl.digester.DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.getFacesConfig(DigesterFacesConfigUnmarshallerImpl.java:186)
       at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedClassloaderConfigurations(FacesConfigurator.java:380)
       at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:131)
       at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.initFaces(StartupServletContextListener.java:68)
       at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:51)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4350)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:924)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:887)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1147)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
       at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
      



      My steps:

      1. downloaded the ready-to-use jsf webapplication skeleton from http://www.coreservlets.com/JSF-Tutorial/, the jsf-blank-myfaces-app.zip, which according to the website "Blank Web app to use as a starting point for JSF applications. Apache MyFaces version, bundled as a normal Web application (as opposed to an Eclipse project as below). Has all necessary JAR files in WEB-INF/lib, all required settings in WEB-INF/web.xml, and a blank WEB-INF/faces-config.xml file."

      2. downloaded richfaces, and followed installation instrucutions in the user manual.

      3. startup tomcat, then I got the above message


      I also tried leaving the web.xml unchanged, but only adding those jars to the web-inf/lib, and i got same errors. As soon as I remove the richfaces jars, they are gone.

      Please may I have some pointers? many thanks!