Hi all, In summary of the rest of this message I must also withdraw my earlier +1 vote as I've had a bit more time and found some build and deployment issues.
* Java version "1.8.0_172" on Ubuntu Linux 18.10 on 64 bit Intel hardware. I had no issues building the war package but note that the portable project fails: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.1.1:unpack (unpack-wikipages-personal) on project jspwiki-portable: Artifact has not been packaged yet. When used on reactor artifact, unpack should be executed after packaging: see MDEP-98. -> [Help 1] As I'm not using the portable version I deployed the JSPWiki.war file to a new installation of Tomcat 8.5.35. This fails with a white screen using the 'default' template: 05-Dec-2018 14:01:27.212 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in 1910 ms 2018-12-05 14:01:37,052 [http-nio-6060-exec-3] FATAL org.apache.wiki.ui.TemplateManager Wiki:/wiki/ Wiki:http://localhost:6060/wiki/ - findJSP() was asked to find a null template 2018-12-05 14:01:37,053 [http-nio-6060-exec-3] ERROR org.apache.wiki.tags.WikiTagBase Wiki:/wiki/ Wiki:http://localhost:6060/wiki/ - Illegal arguments to findJSP(); please check l org.apache.wiki.InternalWikiException: Illegal arguments to findJSP(); please check logs. at org.apache.wiki.ui.TemplateManager.findJSP(TemplateManager.java:311) at org.apache.wiki.tags.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:74) at org.apache.jsp.Wiki_jsp._jspService(Wiki_jsp.java:182) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742) It also fails using the 'haddock' template: 05-Dec-2018 14:03:35.323 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in 1964 ms 2018-12-05 14:03:38,074 [http-nio-6060-exec-1] INFO org.apache.wiki.util.PropertyReader Wiki:/wiki/ Wiki:http://localhost:6060/wiki/ - No jspwiki.custom.config defined for this context, looking for custom properties file with default name of: /jspwiki-custom.properties 2018-12-05 14:03:38,130 [http-nio-6060-exec-1] WARN org.apache.wiki.tags.IncludeTag Wiki:/wiki/ Wiki:http://localhost:6060/wiki/ - Including failed, got a servlet exception from sub-page. Rethrowing the exception to the JSP engine. org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Boolean cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:598) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:514) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:386) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:330) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742) ... at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Boolean cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.apache.wiki.preferences.Preferences.parseJSONPreferences(Preferences.java:145) at org.apache.wiki.preferences.Preferences.reloadPreferences(Preferences.java:120) at org.apache.wiki.preferences.Preferences.setupPreferences(Preferences.java:83) at org.apache.jsp.templates.haddock.commonheader_jsp._jspService(commonheader_jsp.java:228) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:476) ... 60 more 2018-12-05 14:03:38,132 [http-nio-6060-exec-1] ERROR org.apache.wiki.tags.WikiTagBase Wiki:/wiki/ Wiki:http://localhost:6060/wiki/ - java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Boolean cannot be cast to java.lang.String javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Boolean cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.apache.wiki.tags.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:91) at org.apache.jsp.templates.haddock.ViewTemplate_jsp._jspx_meth_wiki_005fInclude_005f0(ViewTemplate_jsp.java:498) at org.apache.jsp.templates.haddock.ViewTemplate_jsp._jspService(ViewTemplate_jsp.java:179) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) Hope this is of some help... Cheers, Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim <murray18 at altheim dot com> = = === http://www.altheim.com/murray/ === === = = === In the evening The rice leaves in the garden Rustle in the autumn wind That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu