at org.alfresco.util.RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.postProce

[lakshmi]

Hi,

I wrote a class JCRManagerMeta class that will write contents to repository, and tried to run the class from command line(after placing all the required jars in classpath).It throws the following error when i load the application-context.xml in classpath :

xception thrown at this code:
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:alfresco/application-context.xml");

Error stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.alfresco.util.RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.postProcessBeanFactor
y(RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.java:68)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invoke
BeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:416)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refres
h(AbstractApplicationContext.java:330)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<i
nit>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:92)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<i
nit>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:77)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<i
nit>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:68)
        at com.cognizant.digitalmedialab.cms.busines.JCRManagerMeta.getJCRReposi
tory(JCRManagerMeta.java:46)
        at com.cognizant.digitalmedialab.cms.busines.Listener$Task.run(Listener.
java:61)
        at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.TimerThread.run(Unknown Source)

This error is thrown while loading the application-context.xml in classpath.I added all the jars that are needed for alfresco into my classpath.

What am i missing here? Am i missing any jar that is needed?

Help if anyone knows the solution?

Thanks in advance.

Lakshmi

[renspr]

Hi,

I assume you use a version from svn. I had the same error while embedding a trunk version of alfresco in my own project.

Make sure you have the files 'alfresco/alfresco-jmxrmi.access' and 'alfresco/alfresco-jmxrmi.password' in your classpath. It should work now.

regards, René

[prophecy]

I ran into the same problem and got it working after a while, but could one of the developers catch the NPE and throw with a better error message?

RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter, line 68.

I am packaging things up in a jar and ran into the same problem again, obviously a classpath issue, but it would be nice to know where and why.

Thanks in advance. (Great product btw!).

[prophecy]

FYI for anyone that runs into this problem, it looks like config.jar in the Alfresco SDK has the alfresco/alfresco-jmxrmi.password and this will cause an exception here because toURI().getPath() in RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter:

          

 path = loader.getResource("alfresco/alfresco-jmxrmi.password").toURI().getPath();
‍‍

returns null.

To find out of this is the problem, run this before loading Alfresco:

ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        String path=null;
        try
        {
           URL url = loader.getResource("alfresco/alfresco-jmxrmi.password");
           System.out.println("url: " + url);
           path = url.toURI().getPath();
           System.out.println("path: " + path);
        }
        catch (java.net.URISyntaxException e ) { e.printStackTrace(); }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The fix is to have all the config files extracted out of config.jar then delete config.jar.