My email notifications were not working. Throwing a big bad exception copied
below. Turns out you really do have to move the two jars in step 4.2 as the
text says, despite the unix "cp" command versus "mv" and the lack of a del
command in Windows. I lost a bit of time on this. The error trace complaining
of a bad typecast was the clue that two classes of the same name had been used,
one to initialize and the other to run. Deleting the original copies in
WEB-INF/lib and restarting the webapp fixed the issue.
STEP 4.2: Install JavaMail and Activation jars
If you like to use Roller's e-mail notification features, you'll need to add
the JavaMail and Activation
jars to your application server's classpath. Currently, we ship these jars with
Roller, so move them from
the Roller WEB-INF/lib directory and into the Tomcat common/lib directory.
UNIX example
% cp $ROLLER/WEB-INF/lib/mail.jar $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
% cp $ROLLER/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
Windows example
c> cp %ROLLER%\WEB-INF\lib\mail.jar %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib
C> cp %ROLLER%\WEB-INF\lib\activation.jar %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib
The big bad exception with the jars left in WEB-INF/lib:
ERROR 2006-03-26 01:04:45,788 StandardWrapperValve:invoke - Servlet.service()
for servlet action threw exception
java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.mail.Session
at
org.roller.presentation.website.actions.InviteMemberAction.notifyInvitee(InviteMemberAction.java:202)
at
org.roller.presentation.website.actions.InviteMemberAction.send(InviteMemberAction.java:164)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at
org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:276)
at
org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(DispatchAction.java:196)
at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:421)
at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:226)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:415)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.roller.presentation.filters.RequestFilter.doFilter(RequestFilter.java:79)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.roller.presentation.filters.BreadCrumbFilter.doFilter(BreadCrumbFilter.java:77)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.roller.presentation.filters.PersistenceSessionFilter.doFilter(PersistenceSessionFilter.java:43)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:292)
at
org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:116)
at
org.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:79)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:143)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:138)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.wrapper.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:50)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.securechannel.ChannelProcessingFilter.doFilter(ChannelProcessingFilter.java:168)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:174)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:246)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:220)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:303)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:173)
at
org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy.doFilter(FilterToBeanProxy.java:120)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.roller.presentation.filters.SchemeEnforcementFilter.doFilter(SchemeEnforcementFilter.java:104)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.roller.presentation.filters.CharEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharEncodingFilter.java:94)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:199)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:282)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:754)
at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:684)
at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:876)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
