Re: deferred parsing loading files on unix -vs- windows?

Just a note.  This issues has been fixed and now deferred parsing can read 
resources out of archives (.jar files).  Again, it wasn't a platform 
difference, it was a matter of using the File object rather than just using 
a URL object.

Jake

At 11:14 AM 7/15/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Turns out this issue has more to do with the behavior of Tomcat-5 -vs- 
>Tomcat-4.1.xx than any platform specifics.  It was working on Windows 
>because I was using Tomcat-5 which extracts resources from a .jar file to 
>Tomcat's work directory when they are requested from the classpath.  Not 
>sure how Tomcat-5 does this, but that is why things were working.  When I 
>used Tomcat-4.1.24 on Win2k, I got the same result as the partial stack 
>trace below on Linux.
>
>Richard and I are working on a solution to allow things to work in all 
>cases so it doesn't have to count on container specific behavior.  Not 
>sure if Tomcat-5's behavior is mandated by the servlet-2.4 spec or whether 
>it is just being nice.  If the former, then it would be portable to other 
>servlet-2.4 platforms.  If the latter, it might lead to vendor 
>lock-in.  Either way, it should work for all cases and shouldn't even 
>count on the servlet-2.4 spec to work.  It also needs to work outside a 
>servlet environment.
>
>I'll post an announcement of the fix when that is done.  If everything 
>works out, the fix should be in the XMLC-2.2 final release.
>
>Jake
>
>At 12:21 AM 7/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I've run into an issue with deferred parsing (or maybe just Java itself) 
>>where deferred parsing doesn't seem to be able to load resources from the 
>>classpath out of a .jar file on Linux where it works just fine on 
>>Windows.  I'm getting a big stack trace.  Here is the relevant part...
>>
>>...
>>...
>>...
>>Caused by: org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.XMLCRuntimeException: XMLC metadata file 
>>parse failed: 
>>file:file:/var/www/webapps/BarracudaDiscRack/WEB-INF/lib/barracuda_disc_rack.jar!/org/enhydra/barracuda/discRack/pres/xmlc/LoginHTML.xmlc
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.deferredparsing.DocumentLoaderImpl.parseDocument(DocumentLoaderImpl.java:452)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.deferredparsing.DocumentLoaderImpl.getCacheEntry(DocumentLoaderImpl.java:165)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.deferredparsing.DocumentLoaderImpl.getDocument(DocumentLoaderImpl.java:217)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.barracuda.discRack.pres.xmlc.LoginHTMLImpl.buildDocument(LoginHTMLImpl.java:152)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.barracuda.discRack.pres.xmlc.LoginHTMLImpl.(LoginHTMLImpl.java:132)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.barracuda.discRack.pres.xmlc.LoginHTMLImpl.(LoginHTMLImpl.java:144)
>>         ... 49 more
>>Caused by: org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.XMLCException: XMLC metadata file parse 
>>failed: 
>>file:file:/var/www/webapps/BarracudaDiscRack/WEB-INF/lib/barracuda_disc_rack.jar!/org/enhydra/barracuda/discRack/pres/xmlc/LoginHTML.xmlc
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.metadata.MetaDataDocument.parseMetaData(MetaDataDocument.java:182)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.deferredparsing.DocumentLoaderImpl.loadMetaData(DocumentLoaderImpl.java:406)
>>         at 
>> org.enhydra.xml.xmlc.deferredparsing.DocumentLoaderImpl.parseDocument(DocumentLoaderImpl.java:437)
>>         ... 54 more
>>Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: 
>>file:/var/www/webapps/BarracudaDiscRack/WEB-INF/lib/barracuda_disc_rack.jar!/org/enhydra/barracuda/discRack/pres/xmlc/LoginHTML.xmlc 
>>(No such file or directory)
>>...
>>...
>>...
>>
>>The file is definitely there and, again, it is found on Windows.  I 
>>thought it might have something to do with files containing crlf's where 
>>they should be lf's on Linux.  I used Ant's <fixcrlf> to fix things up, 
>>but it seemed to make no difference.  Anyone have an idea as to what is 
>>happening here?  Is it possibly a file permissions issue?  How do file 
>>permissions work within jar archives on Linux?
>>
>>
>>I'm attaching the full stack trace in a zip file...
>>
>>Jake
>
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