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Question: I deployed caArray in Eclipse but got an exception when I tested caArray. Why?

Topic: caArray Installation and Upgrade

Release: Up to caArray 2.x

Date entered: 04/14/2010

Details about the Question

I deployed caArray in Eclipse and tried to test the program. When I clicked on the "Manage array design", I got exceptions. The first part of the exceptions was like these:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Category is null
 at gov.nih.nci.caarray.business.vocabulary.VocabularyServiceBean.getTerms(VocabularyServiceBean.java:134)
 at gov.nih.nci.caarray.business.vocabulary.VocabularyServiceBean.getTerms(VocabularyServiceBean.java:126)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:112)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:166)
 at gov.nih.nci.caarray.application.ExceptionLoggingInterceptor.logException(ExceptionLoggingInterceptor.java:107)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:118)
 ......
 ......
 ......
 at gov.nih.nci.caarray.web.filter.CacheControlFilter.doFilter(CacheControlFilter.java:132)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
 at gov.nih.nci.caarray.web.filter.UpgradeFilter.doFilter(UpgradeFilter.java:121)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:175)
 at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:524)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:74)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:156)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)"

Answer

This type of the exception could be caused by an empty caArray schema. The user should verify if the caArray schema has been setup properly by:

  1. Opening the caArray database to see if the tables have been installed.
  2. Querying a known caArray table in MySQL Client: 
    SELECT * FROM category

If the schema is indeed empty, it can be reinstalled via the steps below:

  1. Shut down the caArray JBoss server.
  2. Run the following ant command from the software/build folder: 
    ant database:reinitialize
  3. Restart caArray JBoss

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