for what it's worth, this turned out to be a classpath issue. jcr.jar was deployed into each webapp but was not visible to tomcat itself. i put it in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib, and all is now good.
thanks for the help. hopefully this info will be useful to somebody in the future!
Brian Moseley wrote:
Edgar Poce wrote:A model 2 configuration example for Tomcat 4.x (see tomcat docs):
ok, i used this configuration, configuring a global resource for the repository factory and adding resource links to each of my webapps' context config files (see below).
the first webapp to be started by tomcat successfully looks up the BindableRepository. great.
however, the second webapp fails. the JNDI lookup appears to succeed, but Spring throws a property conversion exception:
org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [org.apache.jackrabbit.core.jndi.BindableRepository] to required type [javax.jcr.Repository] for property 'repository'
this is a Spring exception, so i'm going to ask about that on the Spring list, but it sure seems like a bizarre problem, right? BindableRepository implements Repository, after all.
anyway, thanks for the pointers. using BindableRepository as the resource type (which should have been obvious) was what i was missing. now to figure out the Spring property conversion problem.
