Erik,
I have tried installing in a Virtual Machine (VM) environment and on a standalone Windows 2003 server.  I get the same results on both systems.  The main symptoms are the following:

If I go to http://localhost:8080/orbeon the main page displays as it should.  When I select the "Xforms Controls" sample form to see a demo of the different controls, it gives me an error message on the page saying it was unable to load (see below).

[Cannot load "/forms/orbeon/builder/form/custom-controls.xbl" with webapp loader]

When I start the Forms Builder, the panel on the left that is supposed to have a bunch of controls only has "new section" and "new grid" available.  I would have attached a screen capture to this email, but the mailing list won't allow it.

Yes, I agree that I have had significant bad luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Bruchez [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:08 PM
To: [hidden email]

Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: Re: Orbeon Forms Builder Doesn't Work

Greg,

What you see in the logs is just a warning and should be of no consequence.

Couple of questions:

* What is the symptom that things are not working?
* Can you just try installing this on your regular PC or laptop?

Really, Orbeon Forms typically works out of the box, so I guess you just have bad luck.

-Erik

On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Greg Kenny wrote:

> Well, the issues I am having with Orbeon Forms continue.  The platform
> I am running on is Windows 2003 Server, Apache HTTP server (latest
> version) and Tomcat 6.0 (also tried version 5.5).  I am beginning to
> believe that the issue is with Tomcat because when I start the Tomcat
> service, an orbeon.log file is created which reports errors about the
> Xerces XML parser.  I have attached the log file to this message.  I
> tried downloading the latest version of Xerces and placed the .jar
> files contained in the download in many
> different locations but keep getting the same errors in the log.
> For those unwilling to review the log file, here are the specific
> error messages contained therein:
>
> --------- portion of log file which contains errors
> ----------------------------
>
> Checking for Xerces, found version Xerces-J 2.9.0 needed version
> Xerces-J 2.9.1
> Warning: Failed find a valid Parser!
>
> Please add an appropriate Parser to the class-path, e.g. in the
> 'endorsed' folder of the servlet container or in the 'endorsed'
> folder of the JRE.
>
> 2009-04-08 11:34:47,140 WARN  XmlLibraryChecker  - Looking for a valid
> Transformer...
> Checking for Saxon, found version 8.8 needed version 8.9.0 Checking
> for Xalan, found version Xalan Java 2.5.1 needed version Xalan Java
> 2.7.1
> Warning: Failed find a valid Transformer!
>
> Please add an appropriate Transformer to the class-path, e.g. in the
> 'endorsed' folder of the servlet container or in the 'endorsed'
> folder of the JRE.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
>
> The 'endorsed' folder referenced by the log file (see above) doesn't
> exist as far as I can tell.
>
> Any ideas out there?  If I ever get this figured out, I will write an
> installation guide for Orbeon that is much clearer than what is
> available today.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kenny [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:39 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Re: Re: Orbeon Forms Builder Doesn't Work
>
> Interesting. Thanks for the feedback Erik.  I will give that a try and
> post results in a follow up response.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:08 PM, "Erik Bruchez" <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>>> Question #3:  If you use Orbeon Forms Builder, then what is the
>>> secret to getting it to work?  The reason I ask is that I have had
>>> horrible results with the Forms Builder (tried multiple versions
>>> including Beta version 3.7.1 and nightly builds) on a XAMPP
>>> environment running under Windows 2003 server.  I can certainly load
>>> this in a Linux environment but suspect I will have similar issues.
>>
>> At Orbeon we usually deploy Orbeon Forms under plain Tomcat. Since
>> you are encountering a problem with an untested (not to say never
>> tried
>> before) environment, I would say the first step is to try to deploy
>> it under plain Tomcat first. If that works, then you know that
>> somehow the XAMPP setup is somehow causing an issue and you can
>> address that issue.
>>
>> -Erik
>>
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