After upgrading to 7.0 Update 1, I now have to restart my configuration to enable my applications. Before the update, just doing an add-app and then a deploy-config worked fine. Does anyone know why this extra step is now needed? Nothing has changed with my web application.
even after update 1, it still should be the same. you don't need to restart the web server for deploying a web application even in 7.0u1
if you have reproducible test case, you can either post it here or escalate to sun support so that a bug is filed against it.
Here's the error message from the error log file:
[20/Jul/2007:16:48:04] failure (21931): PWC3026: Parse error in default web.xml
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.models.DFAContentModel.buildDFA(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.models.DFAContentModel.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.DTDGrammar.createChildModel(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.DTDGrammar.getElementContentModelValidator(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.DTDGrammar.getElementDecl(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.checkContent(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher .dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.defaultConfig(ContextConfig.java:679)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:783)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:263 )
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.j ava:130)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5021)
at com.sun.webserver.connector.nsapi.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:182)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1224)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:924)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1224)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:917)
at com.sun.enterprise.web.PwcWebContainer.onStartup(PwcWebContainer.java:70)
at com.sun.webserver.connector.nsapi.WebContainer.start(WebContainer.java:472)
at com.sun.webserver.init.J2EERunner.confPostInit(J2EERunner.java:304)
...
...
[20/Jul/2007:16:48:04] failure (21931): PWC3040: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
I'm packaging the xercesImpl.jar (version 2.5.0) with my web application, but all was fine before the installation of Update 1.
