External component throwing error

Hi

Have you copied your java file at the location \iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\src

All the java files that are developed externally ,they must be copied to this location [\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src ] for external files like

..\livesite_customer_src\etc\conf for config files
..\livesite_customer_src\etc\web for jsp files
..\livesite_customer_src\src for java files

So any external file should placed at these location corresponding to the file type.

When you run build ,it simply check this location if found any files then regenerate the livesite.jar which includes the new files and placed it at its default location.

HTH

Thanks for your reply.

Yes all the configuration files are on their place. Java file is also there. I just looked into the livesite jar file and could not find any file related to my component.

any more thoughts??

Regards,
Aadi

Are you running make_toolkit.ipl or running build.bat file placed at following location [C:\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src].

When you run build it shows that which new file is added,does it show you file name ?

you are supposed to execute build.bat or build.sh,because any change in livesite_customer_src and build .xml will be executed by this file only.

Internally build.bat/build.sh executes make_toolkit.ipl.

Are you running make_toolkit.ipl or running build.bat file placed at following location [C:\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src].

When you run build it shows that which new file is added,does it show you file name ?

I am using make_toolkit.ipl file to build it.. after building it shows the following message :-

files:
[delete] Deleting: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\customer_out\customer.tk.war
[war] Building war: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\customer_out\customer.tk.war
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/application_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/file_template_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/portal_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/search_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/ui_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/ui_custom.xml.backup, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/userops_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml
[exec] Stripping DOCTYPE from file: WEB-INF/conf/customer/workflow_custom.xml, matched pattern: .*_custom.xml

iw-preview.update:

update:

[exec] ***** Analyzing content_center *****
[exec] Previous install of customer toolkit: Sun Nov 16 12:34:15 2008
[exec] No update is necessary.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

I am using make_toolkit.ipl file to build it.. after building it

Hi Aadi,from where you are executing make_toolkit.ipl.
this ipl we execute from the location [C:\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\customer_src] and it is used when you want to change TS(e.g: customize Teamsite).

But in your case you are trying add an external component in LiveSite not in Teamsite.So,you need to use [C:\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src]
directory.
Place you java etc files to this directory location.In this case you have to execute build.bat from the location i mentioned earlier.

[exec] ***** Analyzing content_center *****
[exec] Previous install of customer toolkit: Sun Nov 16 12:34:15 2008
[exec] No update is necessary.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

you are getting no update necessary because the this toolkit make_toolkit.ipl is not hitting the directory [..//livesite_customer_src]

try these steps

Place you Java file at location C:\iw-home\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\src
From command line run the file build.bat
Then analyse the output.

Yes.. now livesite_customer.jar has been updated with the class inside.. now do I need to deploye this jar anywhere in livesite??

Below is the output of batch.bat

----------------------------------------------------------------
E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src>build.bat
JAVA_HOME=E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\tools\java
Buildfile: build.xml
[echo]
[echo] Build Root: E:/Interwoven/TeamSite/local/config/lib/content_center/livesite_customer_src
[echo] TeamSite Installation Directory: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite
[echo] TeamSite Temp Directory: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite/tmp
[echo] TeamSite Mount Path: Y:
[echo]
Overriding previous definition of reference to _build.root.path
Overriding previous definition of reference to classpath.postinstall
Overriding previous definition of reference to classpath.munge

assert.dirs:

make_toolkit:
[exec] JAVA_HOME=E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\tools\java
[exec] Buildfile: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\reference\build.xml

[exec] init:

[exec] compile:
[exec] [javac] Compiling 6 source files to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_out\s
rc
[exec] [jar] Building jar: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_out\livesite_custom
er.jar

[exec] validate:
[exec] [xmlvalidate] 4 file(s) have been successfully validated.
[exec] [xmlvalidate] 1 file(s) have been successfully validated.

[exec] files:
[exec] [delete] Deleting: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_out\livesite_customer.t
k.war
[exec] [war] Building war: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_out\livesite_custom
er.tk.war

[exec] iw-preview.update:
[exec] [copy] Copying 6 files to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF\lib
[exec] [copy] Copying 3 files to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF\conf\livesite_customer

[exec] update:

[exec] [exec] ***** Analyzing content_center *****
[exec] [exec] Previous install of livesite_customer toolkit: Sun Nov 16 12:07:48 2008
[exec] [exec] Added files: 5
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/commons-io-1.2.jar
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.2.jar
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/mail.jar
[exec] [exec] Changed files: 3
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/conf/livesite_customer/database.properties
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/conf/livesite_customer/opendeploy.properties
[exec] [exec] WARNING: Timestamp on WEB-INF/conf/livesite_customer/opendeploy.properties is older than the previous ve
rsion
[exec] [exec] Sun Sep 28 00:22:46 2008 vs. Thu Nov 6 10:38:54 2008
[exec] [exec] WEB-INF/lib/livesite_customer.jar

[exec] [exec] ***** Updating content_center *****
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:30 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:45 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:45 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:45 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:45 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:46 2008] Stopping Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:47 2008] Done stopping services.
[exec] [exec] Added WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar
[exec] [exec] Added WEB-INF/lib/commons-io-1.2.jar
[exec] [exec] Added WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.2.jar
[exec] [exec] Added WEB-INF/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
[exec] [exec] Added WEB-INF/lib/mail.jar
[exec] [exec] Updated WEB-INF/conf/livesite_customer/database.properties
[exec] [exec] Updated WEB-INF/conf/livesite_customer/opendeploy.properties
[exec] [exec] Updated WEB-INF/lib/livesite_customer.jar
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:47 2008] Starting Interwoven UI services...
[exec] [exec] [Tue Nov 18 15:58:56 2008] Done starting services.

[exec] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[exec] Total time: 30 seconds

servletd.stop:
[exec] The Interwoven Servlet Engine service is stopping.
[exec] The Interwoven Servlet Engine service was stopped successfully.

configuration.jdbc.copy.postinstall:
[echo] E:/Interwoven/TeamSite/local/config/lib/content_center/livesite_customer_src
[echo] Copying 1 JDBC driver archives to Preview and Runtime Administration contexts...
[echo] copying [E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\lib\sqljdbc.jar]
[copy] Copying 1 file to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-rta\WEB-INF\lib

configuration.copy.postinstall:
[copy] Copying 4 files to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF\conf\livesite_customer
[mkdir] Created dir: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\preview\temp
[unzip] Expanding: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview.war into E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_ce
nter\livesite_customer_src\preview\temp
[mungewebxml] 2 file(s) have been successfully munged.
[copy] Copying 1 file to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF
[copy] Copying 7 files to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF\lib
[delete] Deleting: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-preview\WEB-INF\web.xml.munged
[delete] Deleting directory E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\preview\temp
[copy] Copying 1 file to E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-rta\WEB-INF\conf\livesite-admin
[unzip] Expanding: E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-rta.war into E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\httpd\webapps\iw-rta

servletd.start:
[exec] The Interwoven Servlet Engine service is starting.
[exec] The Interwoven Servlet Engine service was started successfully.

post_make_toolkit:

update:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
-------------------------------------------

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That's Nice Aadi,No you need not deploy livesite.jar anywhere,the build itself place the jar at its default location that is [C:\iw-home\httpd\webapps\content_center\WEB-INF\lib].

you can check there,your file properties has been updated just after running build.

Now,you can use you component Smiley Happy

I think.. still something is missing because error is still same. Ok now livesite_customer.jar file is getting uadated and deployed. I just wana know that a file named "build.xml" under IWHome\local\config\lib\content_center\reference.

do we need to change something in above file bcs erliar I modifyed it for follwing entry :-

<pathelement path="${iw-home}/httpd/webapps/content_center/WEB-INF/lib/livesite.jar"/>
&ltpathelement>

I have a doubt on this wheather new jar cretad by build.bat will be in pathelement or it is ok as it is.

Regards,
Aadi

Do we need to change something in above file(build.xml)

Yes,you have to make an entry of latest livesite.jar as i think u have already done it .

Now,the next steps are-

Find the section [HTML][/HTML]and add the following to the [HTML][/HTML]element:

[HTML]

path="iw-home/httpd/webapps/content_center/WEB-INF/lib/livesite.jar"/>[/HTML]
Open a command window and change directories to the following location:[iw-home/local/config/lib/content_center/customer_src]
Run make_toolkit.ipl from this directory.
Configure your new component.

I have a doubt on this wheather new jar cretad by build.bat will be in pathelement or it is ok as it is.

Actually the old jar has been replaced by new jar,but till finally you will not execute make_toolkit.ipl after making an entry in build.xml.The TeamSite will not use it.

That's why still you are getting the same error although the new jar has been created,because still TS haven't using your new Jar.

Try these steps ,hope it will give expected result.

It's looking for DOM 2.2 which is legacy components, this can be caused by forgetting the Scope="local" or "session" or "application" in the definition of the external Object. Can you attach your component's data section in the [ code ] block please.

This is Data section being used by component.

<Data>
<External>
<Parameters>
<Datum ID="D01" Type="String" Name="Para"/>
</Parameters>
<Object>com.interwoven.mycompany</Object>
<Method>helloWorld</Method>
</External>
</Data>

If this is for LiveSite 3.0 and later your External is invalid.


<Object Scope="local">valid java object path goes here</Object>
<Method>method with valid external signature goes here</Method>

Hi Aadi
Have you achieved what you was trying ?

Not yet. I think i am near to the solution but dont know whats being missed? Could you please assist me on this more means you know the cycle of External component. I request you to please go to the doc from where I copied the example and try to run at your end and let me know the steps. Thanks

Regards,
Aadi

Not yet. I think i am near to the solution but dont know whats being missed? Could you please assist me on this more means you know the cycle of External component. I request you to please go to the doc from where I copied the example and try to run at your end and let me know the steps. Thanks

Regards,
Aadi

Hi Aadi

I am trying to run the example at my end and i find that in the example given in PDF there is an class BaseExternal in the package [com.interwoven.livesite.external.BaseExternal]. The external JAVA CLASS that you will create for the component must extend this BaseExternal Class.

Check that if your external JAVA CLASS is extending the same class,then this is the problem because this class has been depriciated in LS 3.1.

So, if this is the problem then you need to find another class for LS 3.1,then your external class should extend that one.

This can be an issue,i am not sure.Still i am exploring if got then let you know.

BaseExternal is for 2.2.1 components, since 3.0 externals do not rely on any base class only Object/Method combination.

DO NOT extend you class from BaseExternal, it's not needed.

Are you reading documentation for 2.x release?

DO NOT extend you class from BaseExternal, it's not needed.

Hi AlexC

Are you saying in 3.1 we don't need to extend any class or any other class should i extend if required.Please tell what will be that other class ?

Any idea will be greatly welcomed.

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If Anybody using Sitepublisher 3.1.0 and has successfully run the component??

Maps.zip

After 3.0, we do not require any special class inheritance, the most important thing is the method signature.


package com.foo;

...

class SomeClass
{
  public org.dom4j.Document myExternal(RequestContext context)
  {
 return null;
  }
}

This is a valid class with an external.

The add it to the Data section:


<External>
  <Object Scope="local">com.foo.SomeClass</Object>
  <Method>myExternal</Method>
</External>

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Aaki

The same issue I resolved.

Problem:

There was a issue with the path in build.xml file that leads to the livesite jar file.

Plz verify the jar file entry.

Regards
Aaki