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Error running Alfresco Explorer

satsujin — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:05:30 GMT

I just installed a Typical installation of Alfresco 3.0 using the built-in Derby database. I get the 'INFO Server startup in <seconds> ms' message when I start the server but when I try to run Explorer I get the 404 message 'The requested resource () is not available.' Also, trying to login to

Re: Error running Alfresco Explorer

mrogers — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:51:24 GMT

This issue is already on these forums. Install a more recent version of Java to fix it.

Re: Error running Alfresco Explorer

satsujin — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:26:22 GMT

Is there another solution? I already have the latest Java version installed.

Re: Error running Alfresco Explorer

satsujin — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:41:30 GMT

Actually, there is an exception that is mentioned 3 times only I don't understand what it is trying to say. Something about a Java linkage error.

Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.LinkageError: JAXB 2.0 API is being loaded from the bootstrap classloader, but this RI (from jar:file:/C:/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/jaxb-impl-2.1.7.jar!/com/sun/xml/bind/v2/model/impl/ModelBuilder.class) needs 2.1 API. Use the endorsed directory mechanism to place jaxb-api.jar in the bootstrap classloader. (See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/standards/)

Re: Error running Alfresco Explorer

lzap — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:37:05 GMT

There is another solution - copy JAXB jars from the WEB-INF/lib dir to the tomcat/endorsed dir.

Re: Error running Alfresco Explorer

ragavendra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:39:34 GMT

Thanks for the post lzap………..your solution really worked after I wasted nearly 3hrs…………. :roll: