Hello,
Here's the deal: Roller 4.0 works fine on Tomcat 6.0, which is used for internal testing. However, WebLogic 9.2 (soon 10.0) is used for internet-facing appservers. We're upgrading to 10.0, but I cannot get Roller to run on WL; each time it is told to start, I receive an error (see below).
The environment is:
- Solaris 10 SPARC
- MySQL 5.x
- WebLogic 10.0
- Roller 4.0final (had the same issue with rc9/rc10)

Thanks for any help in advance,
-- Stefan

The errors look like this:
Error Message 1 (added for legibility)
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User defined listener org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext failed: java.lang.NullPointerException. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized(RollerContext.java:110) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:458) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Unknown Source) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(EventsManager.java:168) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1721) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:2890) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:948) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:353) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:117) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:635) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:212) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:80) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:566) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:136) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:104) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.doCommit(StartOperation.java:139) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:320) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:816) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1223) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:434) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:161) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:181) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:12) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:67) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:464) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:200) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:172)

Error message 2
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User defined listener org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext failed: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Roller Weblogger has not been bootstrapped yet. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Roller Weblogger has not been bootstrapped yet at org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.WebloggerFactory.getWeblogger(WebloggerFactory.java:60) at org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextDestroyed(RollerContext.java:215) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:459) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Unknown Source) at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextDestroyedEvent(EventsManager.java:187) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.destroy(WebAppServletContext.java:2953) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextManager.destroyContext(ServletContextManager.java:236) at weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer.unloadWebApp(HttpServer.java:445) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.destroyContexts(WebAppModule.java:975) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.deactivate(WebAppModule.java:366) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$2.previous(ModuleStateDriver.java:188) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.previousState(StateMachineDriver.java:52) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.previousState(StateMachineDriver.java:42) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.deactivate(ModuleStateDriver.java:71) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.deactivate(ScopedModuleDriver.java:206) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.deactivate(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow$2.previous(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:387) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.previousState(StateMachineDriver.java:52) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.previousState(StateMachineDriver.java:42) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.deactivate(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:88) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.deactivate(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:80) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.previous(BaseDeployment.java:641) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.previousState(StateMachineDriver.java:52) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:29) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:212) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:80) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:566) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:136) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:104) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.doCommit(StartOperation.java:139) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:320) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:816) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1223) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:434) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:161) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:181) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:12) at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:67) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:464) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:200) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:172)

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