[OAI-implementers] Question regarding initial installation of OAICat

[Diogo Mena Reis]

Hi,

I'm just a user of OAICAt, so if I'm wrong someone please correct me.

Apparently Tomcat is having trouble loading WEB-INF/oaicat.properties from the 
war file. If you unzip the war to your webapps dir (if you're in Windows you 
will have to rename the file extension to .zip) it may solve the problem. If it 
still doesn't work, try changing the property FileSystemOAICatalog.homeDir in 
WEB-INF/oaicat.properties to the absolute path (it's wrong to use the absolute 
path, but it's for testing purposes).

Diogo

Mingqiang Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just started to use the OAICat package. After I copied the oaicat.war
> file into my tomcat webapps area and restarted the tomcat, the initial
> oaicat/identify.html page works ok. But when I clicked on Submit Query, I
> got the following error:
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at
> ORG.oclc.oai.server.catalog.FileSystemOAICatalog.loadFileMap(FileSystemOAICatalog.java:108)
>         at
> ORG.oclc.oai.server.catalog.FileSystemOAICatalog.<init>(FileSystemOAICatalog.java:98)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
> Method)
>         at
> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
>         at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
>         at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at
> ORG.oclc.oai.server.catalog.AbstractCatalog.factory(AbstractCatalog.java:388)
>         at
> ORG.oclc.oai.server.OAIHandler.getAttributes(OAIHandler.java:160)
>         at ORG.oclc.oai.server.OAIHandler.init(OAIHandler.java:121)
> ....
> 
> According to the documentation, this default war file should work ok. Is
> there something I did wrong?
> 
> Your help is really appreciated!
> 
> Ming
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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