Hi Geoff Armed with your confirmation that I was on the right track, I finally spent enough time getting JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS variable correctly configured. The configuration just needed to be handled in the morning, rather than late at night ;-)
Hacking must certainly be the quickest path to sainthood. I'm developing well-defined patience muscles - mainly in my jaw, though... Thanks for your input, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:37 AM Subject: RE: How to handle endorsed libs without access to CATALINA_HOME? > You are exactly right, but I am surprised that changing JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS > in your startup script did not do the trick. It is for all I can see the > way _they_ are overriding the JDK's default. Can you confirm that your > change is actually used? If modifying the value the start script is using > for endorsed is really not working, I'd think you'll need to take it up > on the tomcat dev list, or possibly with your provider. > > I have heard recent reports (on cocoon dev I think?) that the very latest > versions of Tomcat do not have this problem and no need to override the > endorsed dir exists. Can't confirm this though. > > Incidentally, this issue is what prompted me to pay extra for a "virtual > root" > account for my own project instead of trying a standard Java host. > > Geoff > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard In Public [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:08 PM > > To: Cocoon Users Mailing List > > Subject: How to handle endorsed libs without access to CATALINA_HOME? > > > > > > Hi > > > > I'm in the process of installing cocoon 2.1 dev on a Slackware > > system using > > Apache1.3/Tomcat4.1.18. When I request the Cocoon welcome page I get: > > > > javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: > > org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: The output format > > must have a > > '{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}content-handler' property! > > > > I'm assuming this is because the xalan/xerces/apis-xml libs need to be > > copied from Cocoon/Web-INF/lib into the $CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed > > directory. Problem is that my project is hosted on a server that does not > > allow me to modify their CATALINA (or JDK) setup. > > > > I assume that there is another way of handling this problem. I've tried > > modifying the JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS dirs variable in my tomcat.sh script and > > also adding the relevant jar files to the beginning of the > > CLASSPATH. None > > of these do the trick. > > > > I'll keep on tinkering, but I thought I'd write in in case anyone already > > knows how to handle this situation. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Richard > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
