Thanks !

I thought it must be a configuration error somewhere. Just couldn't find
what I did wrong. (as you only see things are really wrong, the next time
you start the esb). Thanks for spotting.

ruwan wrote:
>Hope this explains it all...
Yes.

Regards,
Harm

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Ruwan Linton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Harm,
>
> The issue is caused by a configuration error, I am not sure whether you
> saw it or not there has to be an exception on the commandline console
> when starting the ESB,
>
> [2009-08-27 06:47:12,988] FATAL - ServiceBusInitializer Couldn't
> initialize the ESB...
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    at
>
> org.wso2.carbon.mediation.registry.WSO2Registry.calculatePath(WSO2Registry.java:628)
>    at
>
> org.wso2.carbon.mediation.registry.WSO2Registry.getResource(WSO2Registry.java:603)
>    at
>
> org.wso2.carbon.mediation.registry.WSO2Registry.newResource(WSO2Registry.java:380)
>    at
>
> org.wso2.carbon.mediation.registry.WSO2Registry.newResource(WSO2Registry.java:382)
>
> So it is because of the "root" parameter of the registry declaration.
> Let me describe what causes this issue. The WSO2 Registry doesn't
> support the file system, if you want the file system as the registry you
> need to use the ESBRegistry instead of the WSO2Registry, but in the
> configuration as the registry impl class you have specified the
> WSO2Registry and the parameter root is invalid in that case.
>
> Please remove the <syn:parameter
> name="root">file:./repository/registry/</syn:parameter> from the
> registry declaration from your configuration and use one of the
> following ways to start the ESB, you will see the issue getting resolved.
>
> I agree the exception is misleading, but clearly this is due to the
> wrong configuration. I will get the error to be more descriptive in the
> next release. On the other hand when you go into the web ui and paste a
> full configuration it is equivalent to editing the synapse.xml file in
> the file system :-), since it is a xml that you are pasting, the
> validation that you get with the normal web ui like sequence editor
> endpoint editor will not be there. Please note that this configuration
> tab is for advanced users and has to be used carefully. If you screw the
> synapse.xml you need to edit the file by hand.
>
> But as you noted WSO2 ESB now stores the configuration in the registry
> and at the first startup it loads the content from the synapse.xml
> physical file and stores them in the registry for subsequent starts it
> uses the configuration stored in the registry for the startup.
>
> You could clean the stored configuration in the registry and force the
> server to load the configuration from the file by passing the
> -DuseSynapseXML flag when starting the server. So the startup command
> will be;
>
> ./wso2server.bat -DuseSynapseXML
>
> On the other hand if you clean the database then it will be picked from
> the synapse.xml file for sure. Also note that if you need to cleanup the
> full registry with all other stuff like user management and all, you may
> use the --cleanRegistry option as well, which is not equivalent to
> deleting database and starting up the server, but will cleanup the
> registry space for the metadata for the server. So the command to clean
> up the registry at startup is;
>
> ./wso2server.bat --cleanRegistry
>
> One other thing is that when you delete the database and restarting the
> server you better use the -Dsetup flag to let the server know that it
> needs to setup the database, it will work without this flag as well, but
> is recommended to use that; so the command will be;
>
> ./wso2server.sh -Dsetup
>
> To answer your second question, as I explained earlier if you delete the
> database, server MUST be reading the configuration from the
> conf/synapse.xml for sure, if it is restarting without deleting the
> database or without using any of the above options it will be loaded
> from the registry. Unless you save the synapse configuration from the
> configuration tab it will not be serailized to the file; So when you
> paste the config and update the configuration the physical file will not
> contain your updates unless you specifically save it, but is stored in
> the registry.
>
> Hope this explains it all...
>
> Thanks,
> Ruwan
>
> Harm Verhagen wrote:
> > OK, something fishy is going on here.
> >
> > I debugged it a bit and found the following.
> >
> > * restoring the directory  database/    fixes the problem
> >
> > * then by reapplying my synapse.xml by pasting the contents in the
> > webui and hitting save. I can recreate the problem
> >
> > If I then stop and start the application it fails to start.
> > So somehting in the synapse.xml  seems to cause this problem. Either
> > there is a bug in this synapse.xml that triggers this behavior, or
> > there's something wrong with wso2esb that it fails on a particular
> > synapse.xml construct.
> >
> > I tried intensively to narrow down what is wrong but I cant find any
> > errors.
> >
> > I currently have a simplified  synapse.xml and xslt file to reproduce
> > this problem. They are attached to this mail [1] and [2]
> >
> > [1] simplified synapse.xml that shows this problem
> > [2] xslt file required by this synapse file.
> >
> > How to reproduce.
> > 1) put test.xslt  in repository\registry\transform\test.xslt
> > 2) past the contents of [1] in the webui synapse.
> > 3) hit save  (all ok)
> > 4) stop esb
> > 5) start esb
> > -> et voila ......
> >
> >
> > One other question:
> > - when I restore the directory  database/    why doesn't wso2esb read
> > the contents of conf/synapse.xml..  Whenever I start the esb, it does
> > not show any of the sequences of synapse.xml as if it doesn't read the
> > file. When I then paste the contents in the webui,  the contents are
> > taken into account (and hitting save, ready modifies _that_ file.
> > What is going on here ?  isn't the file conf/synapse.xml leading anymore
> ?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harm
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Harm Verhagen
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >
> >     I'm playing around with wso2esb v2.1
> >     Now all of a sudden the app doesn't boot anymore.
> >
> >     As far as I can rememnber I have just edited stuff via the webui,
> >     nothing on the filesystem itself.
> >
> >     During startup it keeps giving:
> >
> >     [2009-08-26 23:06:57,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:07,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService,
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:17,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService,
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:27,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService,
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:37,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService,
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:47,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >     2.carbon.mediation.initializer.services.SynapseEnvironmentService,
> >     [2009-08-26 23:07:57,421]  WARN - StartupFinalizerServiceComponent
> >     Waiting for required OSGi services: org.wso
> >
> >     Any idea whats going on here ?
> >     rebooting PC does NOT help.
> >     restoring synapse.xml to the original (as in the wso2esb release)
> >     does NOT help.
> >     This is kinda scary stuff, (that the hole esb can stop working.)
> >
> >     version
> >     wso2esb v2.1.0  on windows XP home, java sun  1.6.0_12
> >
> >     attached is the complete bootlog.
> >     Note: There are quite some
> >     WARN - TransportMBeanSupport Error registering a MBean with
> >     objectname .. in the bootlog.. although I remenber them beeing
> >     there before, while the system just booted fine.
> >
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Harm
> >
> >
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