Web Forms, Virtual Server, etc.

[tjholmes]

My co-worker created a Web-Form XSD file that he was able to deploy and he is on Windows and I am on Linux … but Alfresco runs just fine for me in Tomcat.
We created a Web-Project, and I was able to add the web-form …
I definitely made sure the virtual server was started …
So, here is the error I am getting:

11:13:56,688 ERROR [org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils]
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.FreeMarkerUtil.buildNamespaceDeclaration(FreeMarkerUtil.java:48)
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.FormImpl.getOutputPathForFormInstanceData(FormImpl.java:151)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wcm.CreateWebContentWizard.saveContent(CreateWebContentWizard.java:491)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wcm.CreateWebContentWizard.next(CreateWebContentWizard.java:235)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wizard.WizardManager.next(WizardManager.java:489)
        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.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:132)
        at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:61)
        at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:109)
        at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:97)
        at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:171)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:32)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:95)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:70)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:139)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:81)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
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I don't know what I am doing wrong … when I set the web-forms, I did NOT add any freemarker, xslt, or workflows to it.   

When I finally go to create content I do get this error message, but I also get the start of the form with no label.   This even happens when I use the press-release.xsd or articles.xsd that are standard.

Any help would be much appreciated ….

[tjholmes]

Multiple issues:

1) on my Linux system, running [./Alfresco.sh start] as myself meant I couldn't start the jaxrmi on port 50500 because it is a protected port.  I had to run as 'root' on my local system in order to make sure that was running.

2) As seen in previous posts … you have to make sure Alfresco is fully started and running before you start the Virtual Server.  I had tailed the cataline.out file and I saw it constantly trying to restart.   So … finally … after letting Alfresco start, I started the virutal Server and the log file shows it started.

3) I was using Firefox 1.0.8 and using the Javascript Console saw that I was getting a regular expression error.  That is my my Xforms tried to start, but only got through three
text fields with no label when it starts.

4) I switched to the latest Firefox, and things finally started to work.