[OAI-implementers] Question regarding initial installation of OAICat

[Mingqiang Yu]

Thanks a lot for the help! After I changed the
FileSystemOAICatalog.homeDir in WEB-INF/oaicat.properties, it works fine.
But I'm wondering why tomcat has trouble to load the
WEB-INF/oaicat.properties. Is there any variable that I should set to make
tomcat see this file?

Again, thanks a lot for the help!

Ming

> 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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