[Opensource] Help with kicking the tires

[David Herron]

[Sandra will like to read this] - I'm setting up Expresso & eForum 
and have also started on a toy application.  But I'm running into a 
few problems, some of which I've solved.

First, I'm using expresso 4.1ea3 -complete along with eForum 2-21

Like I said, I've written a toy app (single table) just to play 
around.  I remember from previous tire kicking sessions that there 
was a simple way to run any DBObject class through some servlet 
parameters w/o having to write any jsp/struts code.  But I'm not 
finding discussion in the documentation on doing this.  I want to run 
the class first to see that *it* is working before I dive into 
learning struts.

Secondly, I decided to set up eForum, especially since Sandra claimed 
it would be so easy ;-) ...

Problem 1:  the class com.jcorporate.eforum.dbobj.ForumSecurity threw 
a nasty Error in getValidValues.  The line "String myName = ..." is 
where the Error was thrown, and commenting it out cured the problem 
(myName was not used anywhere).

Problem 2: First it was difficult from the documentation to figger 
out where the main page for eForum would be.  But I figgered that 
out.  However, in compiling frame.jsp a syntax error was found in 
standard.inc.  Changing the first couple lines to read as so fixed 
it, but I also noticed elsewhere a CheckLogin.getInstance()... call 
which would also work.

<%	CheckLogin cl = new CheckLogin();
         cl.checkLogin(request, response, getServletConfig());
  ...
%>

Problem 3: How do you set up new forums?  I don't see documentation of this.

Problem 4: Now if I go to 
http://127.0.0.1:8080/expresso/components/eforum/frame.jsp everything 
loads except for the lefthand frame (loaded by toc.jsp).  I get the 
following report from Tomcat, and I've run out of time this evening 
to do anything more.  Where is GenericSession to be found??

type Exception report

message Internal Server Error

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

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred between lines: 8 and 71 in the jsp file: 
/expresso/components/eforum/../../jsp/properSetup.inc

Generated servlet error:
/Users/david/Expresso/run/work/localhost/_/expresso/components/eforum/toc$jsp.java:130: 
Undefined variable or class name: GenericSession
                         Object o = 
GenericSession.getAttribute(request, "CurrentLogin");
                                    ^


An error occurred between lines: 8 and 71 in the jsp file: 
/expresso/components/eforum/../../jsp/properSetup.inc

Generated servlet error:
/Users/david/Expresso/run/work/localhost/_/expresso/components/eforum/toc$jsp.java:154: 
Class org.apache.jsp.DBException not found.
                     } catch(DBException e) {
                             ^
Note: 
/Users/david/Expresso/run/work/localhost/_/expresso/components/eforum/toc$jsp.java 
uses or overrides a deprecated API.  Recompile with "-deprecation" 
for details.
2 errors, 1 warning

	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:285)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:552)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:177)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:189)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:382)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:474)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:190)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:246)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2343)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1012)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1107)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:496)