Error in deploying the java studio creator application to tomcat

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to deploy my Sun Java Studio application to Apache Tomcat 5.0.28.
A simple JSF web application built using the creator works fine after deploying the war file under tomcat/weapps directory.
In case of a application with databse connection I'm getting the
" com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.ApplicationException: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' "
above error. My application connects to Oracle database using the Oracle Server type provided by the Studio Creator.
I have copied
jstl.jar
standard.jar
to webapps\%app%\WEB-INF\lib
The below url is currently not available ( Page not Found )stated as a solution in most of the querries regarding the deplyment to tomcat.
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/tips/deploy_to_tomcat.html
Thanks for any help
abhi

Answer 1

I had similar problems.
I used mysql with tomcat and have mysql in my Creator environment as well but still had the driver message you experienced.
I found that simply copying the WAR file into the webapp directory in tomcat caused a faulty deployment (it was creating /etc/tomcat5/localhost/YourProject.xml as a directory, not as a file)
I updated my Projects/MyProject/build.xml to include a deploy target and I manually execute the ant deploy step (having not figured out how to tweak the internal ant within Creator)
Note that this requires two jar files (see comments in the ant definition)
<project name="YourRoster" default="default" basedir=".">
    <description>Builds, tests, and runs the project YourProject.</description>
    <import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
   <property file="build.properties"/>
   <property name="appdir" value="."/>
   <property name="distdir" value="${appdir}/dist"/>
   <property name="warfile" value="${distdir}/${app}.war"/>
   <property name="builddir" value="${appdir}/build"/>
   <path id="classpath">
      <pathelement location="${servlet.api.jar}"/>
      <pathelement location="${jsp.api.jar}"/>
      <fileset dir="${builddir}/WEB-INF/lib">
         <include name="*.jar"/>
      </fileset>  
   </path>
   <!-- requires tomcat/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar -->
   <target name="lrp-init">
      <tstamp/>
      <fail unless="app" message="Run ant -Dapp=... or update 'build.properties'"/>
   </target>
   <target name="deploy-tomcat" depends="dist"
      description="Deploy web application.">
      <echo message="Deploying ${app} ..."/>
      <taskdef name="deploy"  
         classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>
      <deploy url="${manager.url}" username="${username}"
         password="${password}" path="/${app}"
         war="file:${warfile}"/>
   </target>
   <target name="undeploy-tomcat" depends="lrp-init"
      description="Undeploy web application.">
      <echo message="Undeploying ${app} ..."/>
      <taskdef name="undeploy"   
         classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask"/>
      <undeploy url="${manager.url}" username="${username}"
         password="${password}" path="/${app}"/>
   </target>
   <!-- requires ant-contrib (http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net) -->
   <target name="try.undeploy-tomcat" depends="lrp-init"
      description="Call the undeploy task (which may fail).">
      <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"/> 
      <trycatch>
         <try>
            <ant target="undeploy-tomcat"/>
         </try>
         <catch/>
      </trycatch>
   </target>
   <target name="redeploy-tomcat" depends="try.undeploy-tomcat,deploy-tomcat"
      description="Undeploy and deploy web application.">
   </target>
</project>In addition, the build.properties...
jsf.dir=/opt/jsf-1_1_01
tomcat.dir=/opt/tomcat5
app=YourProject
username=tomcatAdminUser
password=tomcatPassword
manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager
servlet.api.jar=${tomcat.dir}/common/lib/servlet-api.jar
jsp.api.jar=${tomcat.dir}/common/lib/jsp-api.jar
jsf.lib.dir=${jsf.dir}/lib
jstl.lib.dir=${tomcat.dir}/webapps/jsp-examples/WEB-INF/lib
commons.lib.dir=${tomcat.dir}/server/lib
jsf.libs=jsf-api.jar,jsf-impl.jar
jstl.libs=jstl.jar,standard.jar
commons.libs=commons-beanutils.jar,commons-digester.jarHope this helps.
...Lyall