Tomcat is "Marking servlet action as unavailable" when I try a test using the "struts-blank" sample app with struts-config modified for a data-source.
I am using Tomcat 4.0.2, SDK 1.4.0, and Netbeans 3.3.1. I did recently upgrade from Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1 to 3.1.1 and upgraded from Java 1.3 to 1.4. For this test I am using today's 3/1/2002 version of Struts and the "struts-blank" sample app. I tried un-commenting the data sources section of struts-config as follows: <data-sources> <data-source autoCommit="false" description="Example Data Source Configuration" driverClass="org.postgresql.Driver" maxCount="4" minCount="2" password="mypassword" url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mydatabase" user="myusername" /> </data-sources> I tried it, because it corresponds to the struts-documentation, although different than many posts in the archives. After stopping/starting Tomcat I got an error in Tomcat's log in the same way as the mysql test below. By the way, my IDE's XML "Validate XML" gave an error message for each data source parameter. So I tried this (it's "Validate XML" was OK). <!-- == Data Sources == --> <data-sources> <data-source> <set-property property="autoCommit" value="false"/> <set-property property="description" value="Starr MySQL Data Source"/> <set-property property="driverClass" value="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"/> <set-property property="maxCount" value="4"/> <set-property property="minCount" value="2"/> <set-property property="password" value=""/> <set-property property="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/starr1_db"/> <set-property property="user" value="dick"/> </data-source> </data-sources> But after stopping/starting Tomcat I get this in Tomcat's log: 2002-03-01 08:53:01 StandardHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path /struts-blank from URL file:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploying class repositories to work directory /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/work/localhost/struts-blank 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils .jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-collectio ns.jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-dbcp.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-dbcp.jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester. jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.j ar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-pool.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-pool.jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-services.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-services. jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-validator.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/commons-validator .jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/jdbc2_0-stdext.ja r 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/mm.mysql-2.0.6.1.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/mm.mysql-2.0.6.1. jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/postgresql.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/postgresql.jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 WebappLoader[/struts-blank]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2/webapps/struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar 2002-03-01 08:53:01 StandardManager[/struts-blank]: Seeding random number generator class java.security.SecureRandom 2002-03-01 08:53:01 StandardManager[/struts-blank]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed 2002-03-01 08:53:02 ContextConfig[/struts-blank]: Added certificates -> request attribute Valve 2002-03-01 08:53:02 StandardWrapper[/struts-blank:default]: Loading container servlet default 2002-03-01 08:53:02 default: init 2002-03-01 08:53:02 StandardWrapper[/struts-blank:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker 2002-03-01 08:53:02 invoker: init 2002-03-01 08:53:02 action: init 2002-03-01 08:53:02 StandardWrapper[/struts-blank:action]: Marking servlet action as unavailable 2002-03-01 08:53:02 StandardContext[/struts-blank]: Servlet /struts-blank threw load() exception javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Initializing application data source org.apache.struts.action.DATA_SOURCE at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initApplicationDataSources(ActionServ let.java:841) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:417) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:91 6) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:808) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 3266) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3395) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:454) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:300) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:389) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:232) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:614) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:388) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:506) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:781) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) 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:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) I can see that Tomcat is "Marking servlet action as unavailable". Although this is obviously the problem, I don't know how to solve it. My guess is that it's an XML parser conflict. I have a 1,812,019 byte version of xerces.jar in /tomcat/common/lib. My IDE contains a 835,817 byte version of xerces.jar plus crimson.jar in it's /lib/ext directory. In /usr/java/share I have jaxp.jar and parser.jar. Thanks in advance, Dick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>