Jboss Portal Insallation

[deepalip]

I am new user of Jboss. I am trying to install the JbossPortal on Jboss AS 4.0.3

My AS seems to work fine as when i logon to
http://localhost:8080/ i see the default page set for the Jboss AS

I have downloded the binary version of the JbossPortal.
Copied the jboss-portal.sar and portal-mysql-ds.xml to the following folder
C:\Program Files\jboss-4.0.3SP1\server\default\deploy\

I have set the environment variable JBOSS_HOME

Now when i open http://localhost:8080/portal i get error

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getObject(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:153)
org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getContext(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:171)
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:585)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AttributeDispatcher.invoke(AttributeDispatcher.java:84)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanAttributeInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanAttributeInterceptor.java:182)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.PersistenceInterceptor.invoke(PersistenceInterceptor.java:61)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.getAttribute(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:343)
org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.getAttribute(MBeanServerImpl.java:541)
org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:106)
$Proxy46.getContext(Unknown Source)
org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.DefaultPortalCommandMapper.doMapping(DefaultPortalCommandMapper.java:86)
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:585)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245)
org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)
org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
$Proxy50.doMapping(Unknown Source)
org.jboss.portal.core.CoreController.handle(CoreController.java:189)
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:585)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)
org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245)
org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)
org.jboss.mx.util.JMXInvocationHandler.invoke(JMXInvocationHandler.java:273)
$Proxy115.handle(Unknown Source)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInvocation.dispatch(ServerInvocation.java:76)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:140)
org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.SubjectAssociationInterceptor.invoke(SubjectAssociationInterceptor.java:47)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.PolicyAssociationInterceptor.invoke(PolicyAssociationInterceptor.java:52)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.server.aspects.server.ContentTypeInterceptor.invoke(ContentTypeInterceptor.java:68)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.LocaleInterceptor.invoke(LocaleInterceptor.java:69)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.UserInterceptor.invoke(UserInterceptor.java:184)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.server.aspects.server.SessionInvalidatorInterceptor.invoke(SessionInvalidatorInterceptor.java:87)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:75)
org.jboss.portal.server.ServerInterceptor.invoke(ServerInterceptor.java:38)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:130)
org.jboss.portal.server.invocation.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:175)
org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.doGet(PortalServlet.java:221)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:697)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)

What i steh reason for this error?
Is it necessary to have the database to complete the installation

--------Deepali

[theute]

Please use a newer version of JBoss AS (4.0.4GA or later) see the doc.

[dleerob]

Not sure if this applies here, but I read somewhere in the documentation that you should not use portal with the installer version of application server, but rather download the zipped version, as the portal and installer version of app server are not yet "aligned".
I noticed your path to your app server is: "C:\Program Files\jboss-4.0.3SP1", whicih suggess that you used the installe. Maybe try downloading the latest zipped version of the application server. I just have with the portal 2.4.1 and it all seems fine. However, I had some problems with MySQL5.0, so rather go with MySQL 4.

[deepalip]

The problem was with the connection to MySQL got my DBA to fix it. Thnx

[wiseraptor]

What did your DBA do to fix the problem? I am running a similar configuration and encountering a similar problem.

Thanks!

Mark