> Why is it that Tomcat doesn't log when an item/servlet is requested which 
> doesn't exist lol?

You might need to search your server.xml for "AccessLogValve" and
uncomment that valve configuration.


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Feltros <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I uncovered the error as an extremely simple mistake in my servlet
> location naming convention which was causing nothing to be run, and no
> errors to be printed. Why is it that Tomcat doesn't log when an item/
> servlet is requested which doesn't exist lol? GWT detects this error
> when your running in normal/hosted mode. Would have made this mistake
> so much clearer. It was the difference between /albumUpload and /
> AlbumUpload in the web.xml and project.gwt.xml lol.
>
> Your other comments have been massively helpful, and despite having
> read in tutorials and on other posts here that getting HTTPServlets to
> run with RPCServlets is tricky, I have to agree with yourself and say
> there isn't any trick to it other than having a good solid
> configuration in place.
>
> Thanks again :) I had spent at least 100 hours trying to track down
> the issues in running this and never thought to double check
> capitalisation.
>
> On Mar 12, 7:28 pm, Isaac Truett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Feltros <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Oh no sorry when I said the rather peculiar way, its the same peculiar
>> > way you have to do it in GWT - as in you create a 'form' with the
>> > target of your form-receiving-servlet (In my case
>> > AlbumUploadController) which has some subelements which are fileupload
>> > boxes. The implementation would be exactly the same in GWT and both
>> > were tested. Didn't even mean to mention GXT lol :P I only said
>> > 'peculiar' because its not the normal way you'd reference a servlet
>> > which responded to a GET activity like /returnPictures?
>> > img="someimg.jpg" or the way you use RPCServlets.
>>
>> Oh, well. Can't always get away with a simple
>> blame-the-third-party-library. Just to narrow things down a bit, is
>> the form is actually being submitted? Firebug's useful for checking
>> that sort of thing, if you develop with Firefox.
>>
>> > A few questions to yourself then if you wouldn't mind assisting me in
>> > a few things?
>>
>> Not at all.
>>
>> > When creating your war do you leave your front end bits in the www/
>> > com.Blah.blah/ directory, or do you move them to the root of the WAR
>> > file for simpler URL's? (This isn't perhaps related to my error but
>> > i'd be interested to know if the location of the front end has a
>> > bearing on how you should call server side bits and where it should
>> > 'properly' be).
>>
>> Yes, I rebase everything to the web root. It does make it easier to
>> keep track of what each URL is relative to.
>>
>> > In any of the HTTPServlets you run how do you handle errors? Are they
>> > thrown for Tomcat to deal with, do you catch them and do
>> > error.printStackTrace() or do you handle them some other way to get
>> > them to end up in the logs?
>>
>> My current approach:
>>
>> I catch declared exceptions and log them (java.util.logging, or your
>> preference of logger). Not every exception is a dire emergency, of
>> course, so a lot of benign things like a request for an invalid record
>> ID might be logged at INFO level or lower. For routine errors like
>> that, I'll set the HTTP status (404 seems appropriate for an "ID not
>> found" scenario) and leave it at that. For something worse (gee,
>> suddenly I can't find the database) I'll throw a new ServletException
>> with an appropriate message (but not including the original exception,
>> since I've already logged that).
>>
>> > Thanks kindly for your help :)
>>
>> You're welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 12, 6:48 pm, Isaac Truett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > If anyone knows of any examples of a project with an RPCServlet and
>> >> > HTTPServlet (Any kind, a picture server, a file upload receiver, etc)
>> >> > running in conjunction on the server side and they both print their
>> >> > logs in Tomcat WAR deployment correctly that would be extraordinarily
>> >> > fantastic.
>>
>> >> Yes, it can be done. I've done it in a couple of different projects.
>> >> Unfortunately, no, it's not something I can point you to as an
>> >> example. But there really isn't anything tricky about it.
>>
>> >> You mentioned GXT; have you tried writing a simple test without GXT?
>> >> It seems quite likely that GXT is part of your problem, especially
>> >> given "the rather peculiar way you have to do with file uploading in
>> >> GXT" to which you refer. Have you searched a GXT forum for information
>> >> about this problem?
>>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Feltros <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > I have read several posts that seem to be explaining a problem similar
>> >> > to my own and yet it is constantly misinterpreted and so the replies
>> >> > are somewhat useless. I will attempt to explain the problem as clearly
>> >> > as possible:
>> >> > I have 2 server classes,
>> >> > AlbumUploader extends HTTPServlet
>> >> > ServerImpl extends RemoteServiceServlet
>>
>> >> > In deploying these items on tomcat I have the following web.xml
>> >> > entries:
>> >> > <servlet>
>> >> >        <servlet-name>Server</servlet-name>
>> >> >        <servlet-class>com.BTI.main.server.ServerImpl</servlet-class>
>> >> > </servlet>
>> >> > <servlet-mapping>
>> >> >        <servlet-name>Server</servlet-name>
>> >> >        <url-pattern>/service</url-pattern>
>> >> > </servlet-mapping>
>>
>> >> > <servlet>
>> >> >        <servlet-name>AlbumUpload</servlet-name>
>> >> >        <servlet-class>com.BTI.main.server.AlbumUpload</servlet-class>
>> >> > </servlet>
>> >> > <servlet-mapping>
>> >> >        <servlet-name>AlbumUpload</servlet-name>
>> >> >        <url-pattern>/AlbumUpload</url-pattern>
>> >> > </servlet-mapping>
>>
>> >> > Which seems to work fine (If I go to mydeploymentplace/AlbumUpload it
>> >> > complains that it won't take a get data input - which is correct
>> >> > because it only accepts post data).
>>
>> >> > Now my problem is that when I use the AlbumUploader (Which being a
>> >> > file upload receiver is called in the rather peculiar way you have to
>> >> > do with file uploading in GXT) it returns absolutely fine - almost
>> >> > instantly. No file is uploaded, no error is returned, no logs are
>> >> > written and clearly that AlbumUploader either - hasn't run whatsoever
>> >> > - or returned null instantly without this being logged as an error.
>>
>> >> > It would appear that I can't run a HTTPServlet in conjunction with an
>> >> > RPCServlet?
>>
>> >> > Do I need to deploy these to different projects on my Tomcat server?
>> >> > Is there some special key in the web.xml file to make these work
>> >> > properly? How can I get this to write an error into one of the logs?
>> >> > Where does System.out.println/System.err.println print to when your
>> >> > running a HTTPServlet. If I am running the HTTPServlets and
>> >> > RPCServlets in seperate projects deployed on the same server are they
>> >> > going to be accessible to me on the front end still?
>>
>> >> > If anyone knows of any examples of a project with an RPCServlet and
>> >> > HTTPServlet (Any kind, a picture server, a file upload receiver, etc)
>> >> > running in conjunction on the server side and they both print their
>> >> > logs in Tomcat WAR deployment correctly that would be extraordinarily
>> >> > fantastic.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
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> >
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