I cleaned up my Library/Java/Extensions directory (moving my project
essentials to /Library/WebObjects/Extensions) and leaving just basic
stuff like jdbc jars and that solved the problem.
Regards, Kieran
On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:53 PM, RedBugz Software wrote:
>
>
> On 8/24/06, Kieran Kelleher <kieran_list..ac.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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