Hi,

I'm trying to develop a Struts application on my laptop which spends quite a lot of it's time without net access. This should not cause any problems because the app it self has no need to access the net at all but it is. The problem occours when I try to start Tomcat while not connected to the network. When I do that the Struts Validator throws an exception while Tomcat is starting. If I connect to the net the app start fine. The stack trace is as follows:

INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL file:/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/conf/Catalina/localhost/vtie_live.xml Jan 19, 2006 11:41:21 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
Jan 19, 2006 11:41:21 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
Jan 19, 2006 11:41:22 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn init
SEVERE: jakarta.apache.org
java.net.UnknownHostException: jakarta.apache.org
       at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:153)
       at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
       at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:402)
       at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:402)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:618)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:306)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:267)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:339)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:320)
       at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:315)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:521) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:498) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:626) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1591)
at org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorResources.<init>(ValidatorResources.java:159) at org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn.initResources(ValidatorPlugIn.java:237) at org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn.init(ValidatorPlugIn.java:162) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModulePlugIns(ActionServlet.java:869) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:336)
       at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1029) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:862) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4357) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:903)
       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.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:216)
       at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256)
       at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement(CatalinaDigester.java:76) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:483) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
       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.start(Bootstrap.java:287)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)


The only relevant thing I could find with Google is this: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17470 which implies that the problem is with a DTD not being part of the binary package and that the problem has been fixed. I'm on the latest version of struts (1.2.8) and the problem is obviously still here. Basically, where do I get a copy of this DTD and how do I install it in such a way that Tomcat will find it without trying to access the web?

Thanks,

Bart Busschots,
Department of Computer Science,
NUI Maynooth.

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