So I’m playing around with opentaps these days. It runs pretty neatly in Linux. Simply executing a shell script it comes with autostarts a built-in Tomcat server and runs the darn thing without a hitch. opentaps under Windows is another animal!
Although opentaps comes with a similar batch script for Windows, the thing doesn’t run without errors. With JDK and all set all right, I was getting this error when visiting opentaps in browser:
HTTP Status 500 –
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unexpected internal error near index 1
\
^
java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1713)
java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1466)
java.util.regex.Pattern.(Pattern.java:1133)
java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:823)
java.lang.String.split(String.java:2293)
java.lang.String.split(String.java:2335)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader.injectControllerIfNeeded(ConfigXMLReader.java:81)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader.getControllerConfig(ConfigXMLReader.java:133)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader$ControllerConfig.loadIncludes(ConfigXMLReader.java:351)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader$ControllerConfig.(ConfigXMLReader.java:170)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader.getControllerConfig(ConfigXMLReader.java:132)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader$ControllerConfig.loadIncludes(ConfigXMLReader.java:351)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader$ControllerConfig.(ConfigXMLReader.java:170)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ConfigXMLReader.getControllerConfig(ConfigXMLReader.java:132)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.RequestHandler.getControllerConfig(RequestHandler.java:97)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.RequestHandler.getDefaultErrorPage(RequestHandler.java:647)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ControlServlet.doGet(ControlServlet.java:239)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:270)note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 logs.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
It’s amazing that a simple hack posted by someone in 2011 worked for me! After modifying ConfigXMLReader.java as mentioned in the forum post, be sure to recompile opentaps by running the ant command. Don’t have ant installed? Read this.