apache.org is currently down. "Big deal!", you might say... Well with my recurring problem of Struts2.1.2 always trying to access that website on startup, I cannot restart my local server!!!! This is very infuriating!
Are we agreed that Struts should not be attempting to access any remote server on startup? If it does, there is a problem somewhere, either in my setup or in struts' code---probably in both. I would appreciate any suggestion, any hint, any hunch and any far-fetched hypothesis. Am willing --- to an extent --- to dive into xwork/struts2 code if need be. Here is the most recent error trace: 12:43:11,340 INFO XmlConfigurationProvider:32 - Parsing configuration file [struts-default.xml] 12:43:11,659 INFO XmlConfigurationProvider:32 - Parsing configuration file [struts-plugin.xml] 2008-07-17 12:43:32 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart GRAVE: Exception au démarrage du filtre action2 Unable to load configuration. - [unknown location] at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:58) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:371) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:424) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3709) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4356) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:924) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:887) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1147) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413) Caused by: Unable to load file:/D:/applications/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes/struts.xml - [unknown location] at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.loadConfigurationFiles(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:875) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.loadDocuments(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:161) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.init(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:130) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reloadContainer(DefaultConfiguration.java:155) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:55) ... 30 more Caused by: Connection timed out: connect - [unknown location] at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.DomHelper.parse(DomHelper.java:122) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.loadConfigurationFiles(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:870) ... 34 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:518) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:468) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:389) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:516) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:233) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:318) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:788) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:729) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:654) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:977) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.DomHelper.parse(DomHelper.java:120) ... 35 more