Upgrading from SmartGWT 2.5 Trial to EE causes servlet context problem

[mwiley]

Hello,

We recently acquired the licensed version of SmartGWT 2.5 enterprise and we're having a problem when replacing the trial libraries with the production ones. We've narrowed the problem down to the isomorphic_core_rpc.jar library, and can get the problem to go away if we resort back to the trial version. It seems likely there's a configuration setting somewhere that needs to change that we haven't done yet, but haven't found it on our own and help would be much appreciated. The stack trace is:

Exception when loading from __USE_CONTAINER__/asAdminModule/sc/system/schema/builtinTypes.xml:
java.io.IOException: Configured for containerIO, but servletContext not available!  You need to install the Init servlet
        at com.isomorphic.io.ISCFile.<init>(ISCFile.java:139)
        at com.isomorphic.store.ProcessedFileCache.getObjectFromFile(ProcessedFileCache.java:138)
        at com.isomorphic.xml.XML.getXMLDocument(XML.java:254)
        at com.isomorphic.xml.XML.toDSRecords(XML.java:262)
        at com.isomorphic.xml.XML.toDSRecords(XML.java:265)
        at com.isomorphic.datasource.DataSource.<clinit>(DataSource.java:544)
        at com.tibco.as.admin.server.rpc.ActivespacesAdminServiceRPC.init(ActivespacesAdminServiceRPC.java:104)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:440)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:263)
        at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:736)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1282)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:518)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:499)
        at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224)
        at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
        at ASMMDeployer.run(ASMMDeployer.java:56)
        at ASMMDeployer.main(ASMMDeployer.java:22)

Thanks,
Mark

[Isomorphic]

As the error message says: "You need to install the Init servlet". This is explained in the installation instructions. It's also in the Troubleshooting section at the bottom.

[mwiley]

RTFM right... sorry it's easier to ask than to read through. Thanks for the tip, we're all set.

These links are probably all over, but just to reiterate:

Update FAQ:
http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=8159#aUpdate

EE install instructions:
http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/javadoc/com/smartgwt/client/docs/SgwtEESetup.html

Summary of required servlets:
http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/javadoc/com/smartgwt/client/docs/ServletDetails.html

Including/installing the Init servlet (in web.xml, no servlet mapping needed):

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Init</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.isomorphic.base.Init</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>