Starting Weblogic Server 5.1

Question

Hi,
I've downloaded the evaluation license files as instructed but am having
problems starting the Weblogic Server.
I'm using the following :-
NT 4 Service Pack 5 on an Intel Pentium III platform
250MB RAM
9 GB hard drive
This server was prepared from scratch specifically for the evaluation of
this product. I have tried both JDK 1.2 and JDK 1.3 as well as not
installing a JDK at all and just rlying on the JRE that comes as part of
the installation.
Using the weblogic console (which fires up OK), I get an error
associated with the Java file that parses the license XML file resulting
in a weblogic.common.LicenseCorruptException.
In addition, the console dialog reports that javai.dll could not be
found (searching for this dll using explorer shows that the file does
not exist on the machine). As I understand it, this dll has been
superceded by jvm.dll for the JDK 1.2 for Win in any case.
Finally, when I examine the properties by using Weblogic ->Show
Settings, I notice
that one of the system properties reads as follows:-
weblogic.security.home= =C:\weblogic\weblogic.policy
i.e the equality operator appears instead of the assignment operator.
The installation itself is completely standard with weblogic being
installed to the root directory i.e. C:\weblogic.
I would appreciate it if anyone could please let me know why this error
is
being caused and how it can be corrected.
Regards
Michael M. Akram

Answer 1

Try validating the license file with a separate XML parser ( e.g.:
Apache Xerces ). The only reason I can think of why it is complaining of
a LicenseCorruptionException is the license must not be a fully valid
xml document. (some missing beginning or closing tags, misspelt element
names, etc.)(
"Michael M. Akram" wrote:
>
Yes, I do see a valid XML file. In fact, there are two files - one for the Weblogic
Server and one for the Weblogic Commerce Server. I've run setenv and the class
paths seem to be OK.
Regards
Michael
"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
Have u tried opening the license file with a text editor? You must see a
valid XML file.
John Salvo
"Michael M. Akram" wrote:
Thank you for your reply Jesus.
I have actually tried this and I get a number of errors with the first being
weblogic.common.LicenseCorruptException: Error parsing XML file.
The license files are in the correct directory and have been downloaded twice
to ensure that there was no corruption during the download.
Any other tips would be very welcome.
Regards
Michael
"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
YOu are better of running via the console using startWebLogic.cmd, and
modify the following:
startWebLogic.cmd (The location of weblogic, java)
weblogic.policy (The locaiton of weblogic in the grant codeBase )
"Michael M. Akram" wrote:
Hi,
I've downloaded the evaluation license files as instructed but am having
problems starting the Weblogic Server.
I'm using the following :-
NT 4 Service Pack 5 on an Intel Pentium III platform
250MB RAM
9 GB hard drive
This server was prepared from scratch specifically for the evaluation of
this product. I have tried both JDK 1.2 and JDK 1.3 as well as not
installing a JDK at all and just rlying on the JRE that comes as part of
the installation.
Using the weblogic console (which fires up OK), I get an error
associated with the Java file that parses the license XML file resulting
in a weblogic.common.LicenseCorruptException.
In addition, the console dialog reports that javai.dll could not be
found (searching for this dll using explorer shows that the file does
not exist on the machine). As I understand it, this dll has been
superceded by jvm.dll for the JDK 1.2 for Win in any case.
Finally, when I examine the properties by using Weblogic ->Show
Settings, I notice
that one of the system properties reads as follows:-
weblogic.security.home= =C:\weblogic\weblogic.policy
i.e the equality operator appears instead of the assignment operator.
The installation itself is completely standard with weblogic being
installed to the root directory i.e. C:\weblogic.
I would appreciate it if anyone could please let me know why this error
is
being caused and how it can be corrected.
Regards
Michael M. Akram
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