As a reminder for future generations...
I finally solved my startup malformed UTF-8 exception. The guilty character
was a "é" forgotten in action.xml, and not in web.xml as I initially
thought. Linux RH was configured to use a French Canadian keyword mapping,
and the Debian has a US one.
Morality of the story:
ALWAYS use a <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> header in ALL XML
files! If some strange characters happens to get lost in the files, at least
they will be digested by the parser...
Pierre Métras
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Métras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:16 AM
Subject: Exception in startup servlet?
> Hi all,
>
> I've move my application from the development PC to a test server. In the
> move, I decided to do some little adjustments in software versions:
> Struts 2000-08-08 => Struts 0.5 with my patches
> Tomcat 3.1 => Tomcat 3.2 B6
> Linux RedHat 6.1 => Debian 2.2 with today updates
> Xerces 1.1.3 => Xerces 1.2.1
> Sun Java JDK 1.3 beta => JDK 1.3 final
>
> The whole setup was mainly OK. I can start tomcat and run the sample
> applications.
> The problem occurs when I put my struts application in the webapps
directory
> and start again tomcat. I get the following exception when I restart
tomcat:
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed
> UTF-8 char -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be
> too low).
>
>
> Some strange things:
> --------------------
> - I have put xerces.jar both in myapp/WEB-INF/lib (for struts usage).
> - There's no tomcat.log file generated!
> - When transfered by FTP (either ascii or binary transfer) from RedHat to
> Debian, my web.xml file caught ^M characters at the end of lines, that I
> removed with vi. I processed it with native2ascii, in case... Other files
> don't seem to have this strange disease.
>
> I checked many time all the xml files I could have used. I even added a
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> in web.xml.
> It seems to relate to the startup process, and indeed I have a startup
> servlet... Tomorow, I will type again web.xml if I can't find the reason
for
> that exception.
>
> Has someone encountered such a thing? How can I recognize a malformed
UTF-8
> character?
>
> Pierre Métras
>
>
> Full Exception
> ---------------
> admin@archibald:~$ /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
> Using classpath:
>
.:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/ant.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/jasper.jar:/usr/local/
>
tomcat/lib/jaxp.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/parser.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/s
>
ervlet.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/test:/usr/local/tomcat/lib/webserver.jar:/u
> sr/local/jdk1.3/lib/tools.jar
> admin@archibald:~$ 2000-10-26 09:40:39 - ContextManager: Adding context
> Ctx( /examples )
> 2000-10-26 09:40:39 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /admin )
> Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages
> 2000-10-26 09:40:39 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( )
> 2000-10-26 09:40:39 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /test )
> 2000-10-26 09:40:39 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /myapp )
> Parse Fatal Error at line 1 column -1: Character conversion error:
> "Malformed UTF-8 char -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line
> number may be too low).
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed
UTF-8
> char -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too
> low).
> at com.sun.xml.parser.InputEntity.fatal(InputEntity.java:976)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.InputEntity.fillbuf(InputEntity.java:948)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.InputEntity.peek(InputEntity.java:779)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.peek(Parser.java:2710)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.maybeXmlDecl(Parser.java:981)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.parseInternal(Parser.java:478)
> at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:284)
> at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:155)
> at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:77)
> at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:748)
> at
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initMapping(ActionServlet.java:619)
> at
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:291)
> at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doInit(ServletWrapper.java:317)
> at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.init(Handler.java:215)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:296)
> at
>
org.apache.tomcat.context.LoadOnStartupInterceptor.contextInit(LoadOnStartup
> Interceptor.java:130)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.initContext(ContextManager.java:480)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.init(ContextManager.java:440)
> at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:197)
> at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:237)
> 2000-10-26 09:40:45 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler on
> 8080
> 2000-10-26 09:40:45 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting Ajp12ConnectionHandler on
> 8007
>
>
>
>
>
