IPlanet Web Server 6.0 SP1 bug new details

Question

I have found more details regarding the iPlanet Web Server 6.0 SP1 web.xml
parsing errors:
It appears that in web.xml now the sequence of declaration of the elements
plays role!!!!
If I put <servlet-mapping> tag in the beginning, after that I cannot declare
any other <servlet> tag in
web.xml, but if I change the sequence, that is put the <servlet> tags and
than only one <servlet-mapping> tag
at the end than the parser works fine and the server runs.
This is more than strange behavior, because the declaration of the elements
should not be dependent on their sequence of declaration!!!.
Sincerely,
Petros Bezirganyan
3601 Magic Dr. Shallow Creek, apt. 406
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78229
Phone: [phone]
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Answer 1

Dear All,
I want to finalize this problem.
This behavior is actually quite normal and follows from DTD declared at
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd
That is the element <servlet> is listed prior to the element
<servlet-mapping>, so as we
know from DTD syntax, when elements are separated by commas in declaration,
their order is
essential.
So basically what happened, in iPlanet Web Server 6.0 SP1 the DTD
(http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd) has changed, so that is why
the old web.xml files, where the order of elements was different, became
invalid according to the new DTD, this is all the problem.
Thank you.
Petros
"Petros Bezirganyan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:9nt7vn$[email protected]..
I could find out that web.xml parsing (SAX) error occurs only if
<servlet-mapping> tag precedes any <servlet>
tag in Web deployment descriptor of iPlanet Web Server 6.0 SP1.
That is if I group all <servlet> tags in the beginning and then at the
bottom I group all the <servlet-mapping> tags,
the SAX parser works fine and the server starts.
In my previous messages I stated that we can have only one<servlet-mapping>
tag, this is not true, the problem was in a position of the tag's
declaration.
Sincerely,
Petros Bezirganyan
3601 Magic Dr. Shallow Creek, apt. 406
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78229
Phone: [phone]
E-Mail: [email protected]