Bizarre startup problem on Mac OS X server, with 4.1.12

[Martin Redington]

I have three machines. A tibook with Mac OS X 10.2.1, and 2 xserves with Mac OS X Server 10.2.1

The actual OS version is 10.2.1, build 6D52 on both machines. All three machines have the stock OS X 1.3.1 JVM install.

I downloaded 4.1.12 (full) to all three machines, and unpacked it with gnutar.

JAVA_HOME is set to /Library/Java/Home and CATALINA_HOME is set to /usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12

On the tibook, tomcat starts up with no problem whatsoever.

On the Xserves, tomcat appears to start, but catalina.out reveals the following exception:

Exception during startup processing
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/HandlerBase
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:488)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:106)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:243)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:51)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:183)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.createStartMapper(Catalina.java:280 )
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)

but, org.xml.sax.HandlerBase is clearly present in common/endorsed/xmlParserAPIs.jar

The only difference that I can see between the machines is that the xserves have WebObjects installed and running, and have a number of additional java framworks installed in /System/Library/Frameworks:

e.g.

drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 5 2001 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaWOSMIL.framework
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Apr 15 2002 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaWebObjects.framework
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 5 2001 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaXML.framework

Note that JavaXML.framework also contains the org.xml.sax.HandlerBase class.

Any pointers or hints would be great. If anyone else is running OS X Server, it would be good to know if you have the same problems, or not ...

cheers,
Martin


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