MyUsers (raible) Eclipse/Spring/Sysdeo/Tomcat start error

[kerry]

Hi,

I've been trying Matt Raible's myusers spring application. I have been setting up a number of non-spring applications using this configuraion. So far I've been able to run the myusers application fine outside of eclipse. However, once I try to configure and start eclipse/spring/sysdeo/tomcat the server never starts and tried to load the StandardContext class from the catalina.jar file. Here's the error stack:

org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap at localhost:2487
Thread [main] (Suspended (exception NullPointerException))
StandardContext.start() line: 4151
StandardHost(ContainerBase).start() line: 1083
StandardHost.start() line: 789
StandardEngine(ContainerBase).start() line: 1083
StandardEngine.start() line: 478
StandardService.start() line: 480
StandardServer.start() line: 2313
Catalina.start() line: 556
NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Method, Object, Object[]) line: not available [native method]
NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: not available
DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: not available
Method.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: not available
Bootstrap.start() line: 284
Bootstrap.main(String[]) line: 422
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kerry

[mraible]

This tutorial should help you setup MyUsers in Eclipse.

http://jroller.com/page/raible/20040723#setup_myusers_in_eclipse

[kerry]

Thanks Matt, so far I've been using that description. The project builds/deploys outside of eclipse okay (w ant/tomcat5.0 and eclipse-plugins-1.2.zip you suggested). The other thing I'm able to do is run/debug in eclipse the jpetstore app as well (w tomcat 4.1 not 5.0)? Strange, when I try to setup the myusers (w tomcat 5.0 and eclipse-plugins-1.2.zip you suggested) I keep getting this "StandardContext.start() NullPointerException condition. My eclipse setup is pretty much as you suggest. There are no good error messages (no logs) or at the console.

Kerry

[mraible]

Hmmm, what OS are you using? What version of Eclipse? Can you reproduce it on another machine?

Matt

[kerry]

here is what I have:

spring-framework-1.0-rc2
tomcat 5.0
com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.0.0.beta
eclipse 3.0.0 Build id: 200312182000
windows 2000
j2sdk1.4.2_05

as I said it works fine as a ant emacs build/deploy environment, once I move (and remove any traces in tomcat before hand) to eclipse build and try to run I get this internal bootstrap error condition?

org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap at localhost:2487
Thread [main] (Suspended (exception NullPointerException))
StandardContext.start() line: 4151

thanks,
Kerry

[mraible]

Honesty, I don't know. I've been able to setup the Tomcat plugin with Eclipse on Suse 9.1, Win XP and OS X w/o issues. I'm guessing it's something with your Tomcat Plugin settings - you have it pointing to the proper Tomcat home directory?