Precompile failure

Pradeep Mathan

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Mar 31, 2001, 6:11:22 AM3/31/01

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I am working in Weblogic Server 6.0.My jsp files are placed in a war file which
is present in a ear file.The war file has a web.xml where I have turned on the
precompile option
<context-param>
<param-name>weblogic.jsp.precompile</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
If I dont add this it deploys properly and works correctly.But with precomilation
on a nullpointer exception occurs during server startup.
What should I do to acheive precompile option.
Please Help

Kumar Allamraju

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Apr 2, 2001, 1:03:53 PM4/2/01

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This appears to be happening only if you deploy a webapp in .war format.
As a workaround i would suggest you to deploy your webapps in exploded directory
format or else
contact sup...@bea.com

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Rajeev Singh

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Apr 20, 2001, 2:38:37 AM4/20/01

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I am getting the same null pointer exception EVEN when I deploy the Web App
in exploded format.

Here's what I did to deploy the app in exploded format (please correct me
if I am wrong):

1. Let's say my app is Foo.war

2. I extracted Foo.war (using WinZip) into the applications\Foo folder of
my domain (%WL_HOME%\config\mydomain\applications\Foo)

With the pre-compile option turned off the exploded app works just fine
(except for the annoying delay when using it the first time, waiting for
page generation/compilation)

I'd appreciate any tips/pointers.

Regards,

Rajeev

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Rajeev Singh

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Apr 20, 2001, 2:41:59 AM4/20/01

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Forgot to add:

I am running WLS 6.0 Service Pack 1 with the EJB 2.0 Upgrade.
Platform: Win NT SP6
JDK: %BEA_HOME%\jdk130

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Kumar Allamraju

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Apr 20, 2001, 12:34:37 PM4/20/01

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can you post the stack trace here?

Rajeev Singh

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Apr 20, 2001, 1:32:30 PM4/20/01

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Hi:

I'm including "weblogic.xml", "web.xml" and the stack-trace.

Thanks a lot for you help.

Rajeev

==================================================
WEB.XML
==================================================

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">

<web-app>

<display-name>XXX XXX XXX</display-name>
<description>XXX XXX XXX XXX</description>

<context-param>
<param-name>weblogic.jsp.precompile</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.XXX.XX.jsp.ControllerServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>Controller</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

========================================================================

==========================================
WEBLOGIC.XML
==========================================
<!DOCTYPE weblogic-web-app PUBLIC "-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
6.0//EN" "http://www.bea.com/servers/wls600/dtd/weblogic-web-jar.dtd">
<weblogic-web-app>
<description>WebLogic Descriptor</description>
<jsp-descriptor>

<jsp-param>
<param-name>compileCommand</param-name>
<param-value>c:/bea/jdk130/bin/javac.exe</param-value>
</jsp-param>

<jsp-param>
<param-name>verbose</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</jsp-param>

</jsp-descriptor>
</weblogic-web-app>

=========================================================================

Stack-trace
========

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Kumar Allamraju

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Apr 21, 2001, 2:00:04 PM4/21/01

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That's strange. can you show me the output of java weblogic.version?

I only see this NPE if webapp is deployed as .war format, not in exploded dir..

BTW, is your exploded webapp deployed in applications dir or outside of
applications dir?

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Kumar

JimmyL

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Jul 16, 2001, 12:06:37 PM7/16/01

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Hi Kumar, as I already said to you in another thread, I have exactly the same problem,
and I'm working in exploded directory way under the "applications" directory.

Here is my weblogic.version output (I tried SP2 but it worked worse):
WebLogic Server Build: 6.0 Service Pack 1 03/04/2001 22:05:05 #101616
WebLogic XML Module: 6.0 Service Pack 1 03/04/2001 22:16:50 #101616

I'm sorry to insist and to fill the newsgroup, but this problem begins to be really
blocking...
If you think I have a specific problem and if it doesn't bother you, maybe we
should continue discussing this by mail...

regards...

Dave Harvey

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Jul 16, 2001, 1:08:33 PM7/16/01

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please dont take this discussion off of this list.

We are getting exactly the same NullPointer exception on precompile irrespective
of whether the application is deployed as a war file or in expanded format.

Kumar Allamraju

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Jul 16, 2001, 11:12:02 PM7/16/01

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There's a one-off patch available that should be applied on top of SP2.
pls contact sup...@bea.com to get this patch.
Refer CR044350

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