On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, <dvosbu...@aol.com> wrote: > > I just thought I'd post the solution I found in case anybody else runs > into this trying to migrate an app from JBoss to Tomcat. Neven, I tried > your last suggestion and was still getting an error. I then took another > look at my localhost log and investigated further into an error message I > was getting in there > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > javax.transaction.Synchronization.
I looked up what jar file this class is found in and for hibernate I found > it was is in jta-1.1.jar. After downloading that jar and putting it in the > application's /lib directory the app is now working. I still get this error > in my log however. I'll have to investigate that some more but I haven't > been able to find anything broken on the site yet because of this error. > David, that solves your problem just on a surface. The class (interface) javax.transaction.Synchronization is part of JavaEE, which Tomcat does not support out of the box. If you want to leverage transactional functionality, you should have an external transactional manager. Now, I am curious to see the code for your HibernateUtil class (just to see how your developers are calling underlying APIs) ... Let's tackle that problem separately. Apr 04, 2013 1:52:10 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log > SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable > java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:251) > at > com.systemsmadesimple.struts.WebConfig.initialize(WebConfig.java:50) > at > com.systemsmadesimple.ServletInitializer.init(ServletInitializer.java:92) > at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160) > Now back to your new NPE (NullPointerException) ... What does the line 50 says in com.systemsmadesimple.struts.WebConfig.initialize method? What does that initialize() method look like? How are you calling the IO API from there? My guess is that your developers are not checking for null there and you get the NPE at runtime. So, yes - JBoss-to-Tomcat migration can be challenging. There are few gotchas, but your developers should definitely help you out. :)
