On 8/24/06, Kieran Kelleher <kieran_lists@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Since "I can read", I decided to do the Workbench Basics tutorial in the
> Eclipse Welcome screen (or should I say "perspective". When I click on
> Workbench Basics on the Welcome screen, I get this error: "The embedded
> application server could not run help web application." The Eclipse log file
> show the stack trace as this ......
>
> <snip>
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Exception occurred starting
> application server.
>
<snip>
> Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException:
> org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class
> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log
>
> Could this be caused by a conflict with some of my installed Java
> Extensions (shown below .... Chuck will shudder I'm sure!) or is this some
> other problem??
> <snip>
> -rwxr-xr-x� � 1 root� � admin� � 46725 Jul 10� 2004 commons-codec-1.3.jar
> -rwxr-xr-x� � 1 root� � admin � 279317 Jun 25� 2005
> commons-httpclient-3.0-rc3.jar
> -rwxr-xr-x� � 1 root� � admin � 169763 Aug 27� 2003 commons-lang-2.0.jar
> -rwxr-xr-x� � 1 root� � admin� � 26202 Jun 15� 2004
> commons-logging-api.jar
> -rwxr-xr-x� � 1 root� � admin� � 38015 Jun 15� 2004 commons-logging.jar
>
I'm not a pro at tracking these down, but this has the sniff of the famous
commons logging classloader issue. I would definitely get rid of the
commons-logging stuff from your Extensions dir and try again.
Logan
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