[CONNECTORS-568] The mcf-combined-service war doesn't work with Tomcat 7.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.1
• Component/s: API, Framework core, Site
• Labels: JSPError; Tomcat7 mcf-combined-service;

Environment

Tomcat 7 on Windows 2008 R2

• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Swami Rajamohan
• Created: 15/Nov/12 00:22
• Updated: 18/Feb/13 00:06
• Resolved: 15/Nov/12 01:37

Description

Deploying mcf-combined-service to Tomcat 7 causes the following error when loading the UI.

type Exception report

message /index.jsp (line: 1, column: 1) The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp (line: 1, column: 1) The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:42)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:408)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:89)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.processIncludeDirective(Parser.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseIncludeDirective(Parser.java:357)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:467)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1427)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:138)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:242)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:102)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:198)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:373)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:353)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:340)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:646)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:357)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

To fix the issue the workaround I had created was to merge the web.xml in the mcf-crawler-ui.war and then modify the root <web-app> node attribute as follows
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml.ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">

Add the following taglib entries

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/jsp/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/jsp/fmt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/jsp/x.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/jsp/sql.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

Following which I had to modify the web-inf\jsp*.tld files to have the <taglib> element attributes change

<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd"
version="2.0">

Issue Links

• relates to: CONNECTORS-648 Wars fail to deploy in Tomcat 7