Exception processing Global JNDI Resources - on FC6&Tomcat5.5.17

[Tim Alberts]

I'm running FC6 with Tomcat 5.5.17 (standard rpm packages from the FC6 
distribution).

The main problem I'm having is getting my database connection pool 
setup.I'm getting a severe error that seems to be the source, but not 
sure what the easy fix is.  Obviously the

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory

means Tomcat can't find a class it needs, but as I'm running all rpms 
from FC6 I assumed everything would be 'plug and play'.  Does anyone 
have some suggestions for fixing this quick?

Thank you in advance.

Below is the server.xml...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Server>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"/>
  <Listener 
className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/>
  <Listener 
className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener"/>
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    <Environment
      name="simpleValue"
      type="java.lang.Integer"
      value="30"/>
    <Resource
      name="jdbc/MSIWebDB"
      type="javax.sql.DataSource"
      maxWait="5000"
      password="boo"
      url="jdbc:mysql://msisql.inside.msi:3306/msi_intranet"
      maxActive="4"
      driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
      username="msi_intranet"
      maxIdle="2"/>
    <Resource
      auth="Container"
      description="User database that can be updated and saved"
      name="UserDatabase"
      type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
      factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
      pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"/>
  </GlobalNamingResources>
  <Service
      name="Catalina">
    <Connector
        port="8080"
        redirectPort="8443"
        maxSpareThreads="75"
        maxThreads="150"
        connectionTimeout="20000"
        minSpareThreads="25">
    </Connector>
    <Connector
        port="8009"
        redirectPort="8443"
        protocol="AJP/1.3">
    </Connector>
    <Engine
        defaultHost="localhost"
        name="Catalina">
      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"/>
      <Host
          appBase="webapps"
          name="localhost">
      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

Below are the server logs from startup...

10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.1
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 837 ms
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.NamingContextListener addResource
WARNING: Failed to register in JMX: javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener createMBeans
SEVERE: Exception processing Global JNDI Resources
javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance
   at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(naming-factory-5.5.17.jar.so)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(naming-factory-5.5.17.jar.so)
   at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(naming-factory-5.5.17.jar.so)
   at org.apache.naming.NamingContextBindingsEnumeration.nextElementInternal(naming-resources-5.5.17.jar.so)
   at org.apache.naming.NamingContextBindingsEnumeration.next(naming-resources-5.5.17.jar.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(catalina-5.5.17.jar.so7ygbw0.so)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(bootstrap.jar.so)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(bootstrap.jar.so)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory not found in org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader{urls=[file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/classes/,file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/i18n/tomcat-i18n-en.jar,file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/i18n/tomcat-i18n-fr.jar,file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/i18n/tomcat-i18n-es.jar,file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/i18n/tomcat-i18n-ja.jar,file:/usr/share/java/xml-commons-apis-1.3.02.jar,file:/usr/share/java/xerces-j2-2.7.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jakarta-commons-collections-3.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.1.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jakarta-commons-el-1.0.jar,file:/usr/share/java/tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.17.jar,file:/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.1.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/classpathx-jaf-1.0.jar,file:/usr/share/java/ant-1.6.5.jar,file:/var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.0.5-bin.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jasper5-runtime-5.5.17.jar,file:/usr/share/java/tomcat5/naming-resources-5.5.17.jar,file:/usr/share/java/geronimo/spec-jta-1.0.1B-rc2.jar,file:/usr/share/java/tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.17.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jakarta-commons-pool-1.3.jar,file:/usr/share/java/classpathx-mail-1.3.1-monolithic-1.1.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jasper5-compiler-5.5.17.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jakarta-commons-logging-api-1.0.4.jar,file:/usr/share/java/jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar,file:/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.2.3.v_686_R32x.jar,file:/usr/share/java/mx4j/mx4j-3.0.1.jar,file:/usr/share/java/tomcat5/naming-factory-5.5.17.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:/usr/lib/jvm/java/lib/tools.jar,file:/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar,file:/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/commons-logging-api.jar,file:/usr/share/java/mx4j/mx4j-impl.jar,file:/usr/share/java/mx4j/mx4j-jmx.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}}
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(naming-factory-5.5.17.jar.so)
   ...15 more
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
10-May-07 4:06:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
10-May-07 4:06:54 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:54 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator/validation.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: action: []: Verifying ModuleConfig for this module
10-May-07 4:06:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: action: []: Verification of ModuleConfig has been completed
10-May-07 4:06:56 PM org.apache.struts.webapp.example.memory.MemoryDatabasePlugIn init
INFO: Initializing memory database plug in from '/WEB-INF/database.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:56 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:56 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:58 PM org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin initDefinitionsFactory
INFO: Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
10-May-07 4:06:58 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
10-May-07 4:06:58 PM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources

INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'

[Aaron Luchko]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:23 -0700, Tim Alberts wrote:
> I'm running FC6 with Tomcat 5.5.17 (standard rpm packages from the FC6 
> distribution).
>
> The main problem I'm having is getting my database connection pool 
> setup.I'm getting a severe error that seems to be the source, but not 
> sure what the easy fix is.  Obviously the
>
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory
>
> means Tomcat can't find a class it needs, but as I'm running all rpms 
> from FC6 I assumed everything would be 'plug and play'.  Does anyone 
> have some suggestions for fixing this quick?

This is because there were some jars missing from the corresponding
version of the jpackage rpm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238192

Until the package is updated the workaround I'm using is to manually add
naming-factory-dbcp.jar to /var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/

-Aaron

[Vivek Lakshmanan]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:36 -0600, Aaron Luchko wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:23 -0700, Tim Alberts wrote:
> > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory
> >
> > means Tomcat can't find a class it needs, but as I'm running all rpms 
> > from FC6 I assumed everything would be 'plug and play'.  Does anyone 
> > have some suggestions for fixing this quick?
>
> This is because there were some jars missing from the corresponding
> version of the jpackage rpm
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238192
>
> Until the package is updated the workaround I'm using is to manually add
> naming-factory-dbcp.jar to /var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/

The real issue is that upstream tomcat5 build creates the
naming-factory-dbcp.jar and others by extracting classes from
commons-dbcp, collections, etc. and sticking them under the
org.apache.tomcat.x package (I personally dont like it  but some claim
they prefer this since they can include newer/older j-c-* jars in their
webapps and prevent classloading issues) . Until recently, JPackage has
been sym-linking to j-c-dbcp.jar etc. produced by the relevant
jakarta-commons-* rpm directly without changing the packages. It is only
recently that these jakarta-commons-* packages have been modified to
produce a -tomcat5 package that have these renamed packages which
tomcat5 sym-links to.

For the moment, a workaround I would go with is to add a Resource tag in
your /etc/tomcat5/server.xml file nexted under the GlobalNamingResources
tag with factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
attribute or doing the same thing in your web-app's context.xml nested
inside the the Context tag... You can refer to
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html for
reference.

However, I do think there are several benefits to going to 5.5.23 for
tomcat5, I just havent evaluated all the changes necessary in Fedora
6/7. I will update bz# 238192 when I am ready.
Vivek