[Opensource] Re: Expresso installation problems with JBoss/Tomcat - SOLVED!!!!!!!!

[Shamanth Murthy]

Hi All,
 We have managed to solve the problem of installing Expresso(expresso5-0-2-bin) on jboss/tomcat

Steps followed:

1)Problem:  ERROR: invalid console appender config detected, console stream is
	   > loopingShutting down
  solution: Comment all lines of loggingRoot.properties found in
	  WEB-INF\classes\com\jcorporate\expresso\core\logging directory

2)Problem: "ConfigManager: Unable to get URL to the expresso-config dtd"
This is the statement in ConfigManager thats creating problems.

URL url = new URL("/com/jcorporate/expresso/core/expresso-config_4_0.dtd");
if (url != null) {
            digester.register(
                    "-//Jcorporate Ltd//DTD Expresso Configuration 4.0//EN",
                    url.toString());

        } else {
            ConfigurationException ce = new ConfigurationException(
                                                "ConfigManager: Unable to get URL to the expresso-config dtd");
            setConfigurationFailureException(ce);
            throw ce;
        }


Solution: 
Replace

  try{

	URL url = new URL("http://www.jcorporate.com/dtds/expresso-config_4_0.dtd");

        if (url != null) {
            digester.register(
                    "-//Jcorporate Ltd//DTD Expresso Configuration 4.0//EN",
                    url.toString());

        } else {
            ConfigurationException ce = new ConfigurationException(
                                                "ConfigManager: Unable to get URL to the expresso-config dtd");
            setConfigurationFailureException(ce);
            throw ce;
        }

}catch(Exception e){
	e.printStackTrace();
}

3) Comment 'escapeHandler' attribute of 'jdbc' tag found in expresso-config.xml
4) Run jboss..... We did face Classloader problems, with some work around we were able to get Expresso Home page running.
5) Now ... Expresso's running fine... But when i try to shutdown jboss,  I do come accross the same old problem of ConsoleAppenders....

I hope this will help some of you.

Thanks
Shamanth Murthy