Character conversion error when installing Java Portlet Container Preview

Question

I'm trying to tets out JSR 168 portlets on our Oracle 10g server. I'm following the instructions at http://portalstandards.oracle.com/
I download and try to install the "Java Portlet Container Preview Release 2", and I get the following error:
[oracle@jupiter home]$ java -jar ~/wsrp-install.jar ~/jwsdp-1.3
File "/home/oracle/jupiter_mid/j2ee/home/config/global-web-application.xml" modified successfully
oracle.webdb.utils.PortalExceptionImpl: Error transforming file "config/server.xml"
at oracle.portal.PortalException.<init>(PortalException.java:66)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.InstallException.<init>(InstallException.java:31)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.applyTransformation(Main.java:387)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.install(Main.java:122)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.main(Main.java:98)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Character conversion error: "Unconvertible UTF-8 character beginning with 0x92" (line number may be too low).
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.fatalError(TransformerImpl.java:739)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:715)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1129)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1107)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.applyTransformation(Main.java:371)
... 2 more
caused by: ; SystemID: http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/application-server-9_04.dtd; Line#: 1; Column#: -1
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Character conversion error: "Unconvertible UTF-8 character beginning with 0x92" (line number may be too low).
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.fatalError(TransformerImpl.java:739)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:715)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1129)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1107)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.applyTransformation(Main.java:371)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.install(Main.java:122)
at oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.install.Main.main(Main.java:98)
[oracle@jupiter home]$
This is what the server.xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE application-server PUBLIC "-//Oracle//DTD OC4J Application-server 9.04//EN" "http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/application-server-9_04.dtd">
<application-server localhostIsAdmin="true"
application-directory="../applications"
deployment-directory="../application-deployments"
connector-directory="../connectors">
<rmi-config path="./rmi.xml" />
<sep-config path="./internal-settings.xml" />
<jms-config path="./jms.xml" />
<javacache-config path="../../../javacache/admin/javacache.xml" />
<log>
<file path="../log/server.log" />
</log>
<transaction-config timeout="30000" />
<java-compiler name="javac" in-process="false" extdirs="/home/oracle/jupiter_mid/jdk/jre/lib/ext" />
<global-application name="default" path="application.xml" />
<application name="BC4J" path="../applications/BC4J.ear" auto-start="true" />
<application name="BC4JManager" path="../applications/BC4JManager.ear" auto-start="true" />
<application name="IsWebCacheWorking" path="../applications/IsWebCacheWorking.ear" auto-start="true" />
<application name="jdev_test2" path="../applications/jdev_test2.ear" auto-start="true" />
<global-web-app-config path="global-web-application.xml" />
<web-site default="true" path="./default-web-site.xml" />
<cluster id="1214162165" />
</application-server>
server.xml looks ok, and I've tried tweaking it to no avail. Anyone know what could cause this?

Answer 1

Could you make sure you don't have any extra Apache libraries hanging around in your global classpath, i.e. ensure there is nothing extra in <J2SE Home>/jre/lib/extThere's a xercesImp.jar under mid/j2ee/OC4J_Portal/applications/jpdk/jpdk/WEB-INF/lib/xercesImpl.jar, but there's also one under jwsdp-1.2/jaxp/lib/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar. Is that supposed to be in there?
Neither of these are getting loaded, though; running java -verbose shows that all of org.apache.xalan.* is being loaded from mid/jdk/jre/lib/rt.jar
FWIW, ../../lib/xmlparserv2.jar does exist, but doesn't look like it's being loaded. :-\