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Re: Orbeon Forms Builder Doesn't Work

Posted by Erik Bruchez on Apr 09, 2009; 6:26am
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Orbeon-Forms-Builder-Doesn-t-Work-tp43239p43249.html

Greg,

To make sure I just downloaded the latest nightly and deployed it on  
my laptop with the following environment:

* OS X
* Java 5 VM
* Tomcat 5.5.27

Things work just fine. Is that Windows 2003 machine the only machine  
you have access to?

-Erik

On Apr 8, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Greg Kenny wrote:

> Einar,
> I have done what you have suggested no less than three times  
> before.  Doing it again and expecting different results is  
> insanity...not courage. IMHO. :)
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 5:51 PM, "Einar Moos" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Greg,
>>
>> no, that's not bad luck, that's is IMHO just not *trying enough*.
>>
>> Shut down Tomcat. Delete orbeon.war at the root of webapps, and the  
>> orbeon folder under webapps.
>> Deploy the the latest orbeon.war on Tomcat.
>>
>> Test.
>>
>> Courage!
>>
>> -- einar
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Greg Kenny <[hidden email]
>> > wrote:
>> 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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