[kaffe] tomcat3.2.3 doesn't work properly on Kaffe-1.0.6-6

[Tatsuya Tsurukawa]

Hi, All.

I'm now testing Apache SOAP 2.2 and TOMCAT 3.2.3 on Red Hat Linux 7.2.
to make simple Web Services. 

They work well on Sun's JDK1.3.1. Then I tried to use Kaffe-1.0.6-6 as
JVM instead of Sun's JDK, and I found it doesn't work. I saw follwing
errors.

2002-06-12 11:27:20 - Ctx( /apache-soap ): Exception in init  null - java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Throwable.java:native)
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:33)
        at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:20)
        at java.lang.RuntimeException.<init>(RuntimeException.java:17)
        at java.lang.NullPointerException.<init>(NullPointerException.java:17)
        at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:104)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.setAttribute(Context.java:411)
        at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletContextFacade.setAttribute(ServletContextFacade.java:116)
        at org.apache.soap.server.http.ServerHTTPUtils.setServletClassLoaderIntoContext
(ServerHTTPUtils.java:144)
        at org.apache.soap.server.http.RPCRouterServlet.init(RPCRouterServlet.java:173)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doInit(ServletWrapper.java:317)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.init(Handler.java:215)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:296)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection
(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:325)

I'm not sure, but I guess tomcat's servlets are not compatible with 
Kaffe because it is rated as JDK1.1 compatible.

I thought it possible to get old versions tomcat, but actually they
don't have such old modules on their web site anymore. 

Are there any work arounds ? Any comments would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Tatsuya Tsurukawa


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Tatsuya   turukawa at isl.melco.co.jp