Problem deploying a webapp with FCKeditor

I've implemented FCKeditor in my webapp. I'm developing in eclipse and deploying to weblogic. I'm using the editor via javascript and that's working fine. I added the connector to my project as described here http://java.fckeditor.net/connector.html.

   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>Connector</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
          net.fckeditor.connector.ConnectorServlet
      </servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>Connector</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>
        /lib/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/*
      </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 10:10

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Problem deploying a webapp with FCKeditor

Are you using FCKeditor.Java 2.4?
Did you intergrate weblogic into Eclipe WTP? If so, please try to reproduce the error.

Try to debug the source. It seems like this string is null http://dev.fckeditor.net/browser/FCKedi ... t.java#L79 for some reason which leads to the NPE in line 82.

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 15:51

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Problem deploying a webapp with FCKeditor

Brandon,

I've investigated the issue and found the reason why it really fails. JBoss, WebLogic and maybe other servers do not expand the war file on the local filesystem, the run the webapp directly off the war file. Tomcat e.g. expands them. The specification says about ServletContext#getRealPath:

This method returns null if the servlet container cannot translate the virtual path to a real path for any reason (such as when the content is being made available from a .war archive).

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 21:01

bzarzoza

Joined: 03/10/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Problem deploying a webapp with FCKeditor

Thank you for the quick response. You've been a great help.

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 21:04

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Problem deploying a webapp with FCKeditor

bzarzoza wrote:Thank you for the quick response. You've been a great help.

I am glad, I was able to help you!