FileFormat.Info » java http://fileformat.wordpress.com Observations from running www.FileFormat.Info Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/5545e65fed59b043d22ac0b7d44a9d8c?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png FileFormat.Info » java http://fileformat.wordpress.com JCharset with Tomcat 5.5 http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/jcharset-with-tomcat-55/ http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/jcharset-with-tomcat-55/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:58:00 +0000 fileformat http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/jcharset-with-tomcat-55/ ]]>

I use JCharset to get some additional character sets, including UTF 7 and GSM DEFAULT. While it was trivial to setup in development (where I launch Tomcat from an ant task with all sorts of parameters), it was a different story in production where I’m using the default Debian Etch install of Tomcat 5.5. It was very picky about where the JCharset.jar file went: it didn’t like in:

  • WEB-INF/lib
  • jre/lib (which has Sun’s charset.jar)
  • /var/lib/tomcat5.5/shared/lib

It has to go in:

/usr/share/tomcat5.5/endorsed

No errors or anything came up: it just didn’t load. I didn’t notice until I saw 404’s on the missing pages.

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Add/edit the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

Then run apt-get update. Now install java with apt-get install sun-java5-jdk (or sun-java6-jdk)

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