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Alfresco 3.4a authentication problem ...

unknown-user — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:52 GMT

Hello,I've setup a openworkdesk application on my PC for testing purposes - it's working fine against our Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 repository (production)Nice job - Fine.Now, when trying to have it working the Test Alfresco 3.4a community edition on my PC, impossible to get it workingI've tried to se

Re: Alfresco 3.4a authentication problem ...

deko — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:12:50 GMT

Hello ythebaud,

we will have a closer look at this problem.

Seems to be a problem with the WSDL files that are neccessary for communication between Alfresco and OpenWorkd.

The important line in stacktrace is following:

Caused by: com.sun.xml.ws.protocol.soap.MessageCreationException: Couldn't create SOAP message due to exception: XML reader error: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog

–> EOF as End of File Exception.

Will come back to you as soon as possible.

Re: Alfresco 3.4a authentication problem ...

d_evil — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:50:02 GMT

Hello ythebaud,

we searched long enough to find out that this problem seemed to be a conflict of webservice libraries. The alfresco CXF libraries are not able to complete/parse the request and throw an exception (com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException… )

Running the OpenWorkdesk from a secondary Tomcat works for me quite well, and it should also work for you if you remove the webservice-api.jar form the alfresco/tomcat/endorsed directory.

My tests were done with Alfresco 3.4b Community Win x64(full install), and OpenWorkdesk runs on a Tomcat 6.0.20 under Win7 with JRE 1.6.0_22-b04 (x64).

If you look into the log files of your alfresco installation you should find similar lines:
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedEOF(StreamScanner.java:661)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.handleEOF(BasicStreamReader.java:2134)
…
ERROR: org.alfresco.wcm.client.util.impl.GuestSessionFactoryImpl - Repository not available: Parsing exception!
ERROR: org.alfresco.wcm.client.util.impl.GuestSessionFactoryImpl - Repository not available: Parsing exception!

Regards,
D.evil