On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Have the jpackage-packaged things like tomcat5 been moved into the disto repositories? Do they work with sun java? In particular, tomcat5 used to require jta. The one yum installs doesn't mention it now, but it also doesn't work with sun java 1.5 installed the jpackage way. What am I missing?
The included Tomcat does require jta:
$ rpm -q --requires tomcat5-common-lib | grep 'jta' jta >= 0:1.0.1 jta >= 0:1.0.1
Which is at least provided by geronimo-specs-compat. Anyway, back to the issue, what does your Tomcat log say (/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out)? If it is something along the lines of:
--- sun.misc.InvalidJarIndexException: Invalid index at sun.misc.URLClassPath $JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:769) at sun.misc.URLClassPath $JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:682) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:161) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:192) [...] ---
You are probably bumping into the issue described here: https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2007-May/011416.html
Until upstream fixes this, I think the only solution is to rebuild Tomcat without brp-java-repack-jars being used, use the updated Tomcat packages from JPackage, or stick to gcj.
-- Daniel