[PLUTO-244] Pluto Admin portlet cannot deploy portlets which use a servlet 2.4 web.xml with namespaces

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: unspecified
• Component/s: portlets-admin

Environment

Pluto 1.0.2 branch (r429058 - contains PLUTO-216 and PLUTO-219), Tomcat 5.5.17, Ubuntu Linux, Sun JRE 1.5.0_06

• Assignee: Elliot Metsger
• Reporter: Elliot Metsger
• Created: 05/Aug/06 21:42
• Updated: 03/Mar/07 14:11
• Resolved: 03/Mar/07 14:11

Description

The pluto admin portlet can deploy portlets with servlet 2.3 and servlet 2.4 web.xml descriptors. However, it can only deploy 2.4 web.xml descriptors that do not utilize namespaces.

For example, deploying a portlet with a descriptor like the one below succeeeds:
<web-app version="2.4">
<display-name>Servlet 2.4 Webapp</display-name>
<description>A 2.4 Servlet</description>
</web-app>

But deploying a portlet with a descriptor using namespaces fails:
<web-app 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/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<display-name>Servlet 2.4 Webapp</display-name>
<description>A 2.4 Servlet</description>
</web-app>

And you will see this in the log:
SEVERE: Error in Portlet
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.pluto.invoker.impl.PortletInvokerImpl.invoke(PortletInvokerImpl.java:109)
at org.apache.pluto.invoker.impl.PortletInvokerImpl.load(PortletInvokerImpl.java:80)
at org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerImpl.portletLoad(PortletContainerImpl.java:218)
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