Cocoon 1.7.3 and Tomcat 3.1 config problem

[Steven Maring <St...@trcinc.com>]

OK. Time to put on my stupid hat again.  I recompiled Cocoon and Tomcat from
a clean slate.  Now, when I try to access the Cocoon.xml status page I get:

Publishing Engine could not be initialized.
java.lang.NullPointerException
  at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.init(Cocoon.java:135)
  at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.initServlet(ServletWrapper.java,
Compiled Code)
  at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:445)
  at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
  at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection
(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java, Compiled Code)
  at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java,
Compiled Code)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code)


I did not touch the cocoon.properties, and the jars needed by Cocoon are in
the classpath that Tomcat uses.

I added this to my tomcat.conf that httpd.conf includes:

Action cocoon /servlet/org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon
AddHandler cocoon .xml

and this to the global web.xml:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>properties</param-name>
 
<param-value>/usr/local/cocoon-1.7.3/conf/cocoon.properties</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.xml</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>


And that's about it.  The Tomcat examples work fine.  What did I miss?

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|  Steve Maring
|  Web Application Engineer
|  Technical Resource Connection, Inc.
|  smaring@trcinc.com
|  813-891-6084 x4323
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