I have installed Jboss Portal 2.0 final. Successfully configured with oracle database. Also placed portal-forums.sar in deploy folder which is also configured with database. All tables for forums were created.
All oprtaions in forums are working except deletion. On deletion of post it show the error.
javax.servlet.ServletException: An error occured during the action request : null
org.jboss.portal.core.servlet.CoreServlet.render(CoreServlet.java:174)
org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.AbstractMainServlet.invoke(AbstractMainServlet.java:81)
org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.AbstractMainServlet.doGet(AbstractMainServlet.java:71)
org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.AbstractMainServlet.doPost(AbstractMainServlet.java:62)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.jboss.portal.core.servlet.TransactionFilter.doFilter(TransactionFilter.java:79)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)
root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
org.jboss.portlet.forums.ForumsPortlet.posting(ForumsPortlet.java:880)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
org.jboss.portlet.JBossPortlet.doDispatch(JBossPortlet.java:140)
org.jboss.portlet.JBossPortlet.processAction(JBossPortlet.java:96)
After that no operation is working, even edit operation that was already worked fine.
Your problem is related probably to this:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-335
a great number of forum bugs was resolved since 2.0 final:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=71559
Please try 2.0.1 RC3 version.