Hello. I'm pretty new to SVN and Geoserver. But i think i got the command right.
I checked out the branch using this command
svn checkout svn://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/tags/1.4.0-RC5/ geoserver
ran
mvn install
it downloaded all the dependencies and ended with a "Success" but i don't really know what it did.
I found a war file built from the process but when i tried deploying it through tomcat i get this
stack trace in catalina.out
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'wms' defined in URL [jar:file:/home/ceo/bin/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/wms-1.4.0-RC5.jar!/applicationContext.xml]: Can't resolve reference to bean 'config' while setting property 'constructor argument'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'config' defined in URL [jar:file:/home/ceo/bin/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/main-1.4.0-RC5.jar!/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Error creating xml config reader; nested exception is org.vfny.geoserver.global.ConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'config' defined in URL [jar:file:/home/ceo/bin/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/main-1.4.0-RC5.jar!/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Error creating xml config reader; nested exception is org.vfny.geoserver.global.ConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Error creating xml config reader; nested exception is org.vfny.geoserver.global.ConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.vfny.geoserver.global.ConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.xml.XMLConfigReader.loadCatalog(XMLConfigReader.java:300)
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.xml.XMLConfigReader.load(XMLConfigReader.java:195)
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.xml.XMLConfigReader.<init>(XMLConfigReader.java:145)
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.Config.setApplicationContext(Config.java:43)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:84)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:248)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:362)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:176)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:105)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.resolveConstructorArguments(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:713)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:611)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:329)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:275)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:318)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:230)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:156)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:48)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
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.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.xml.XMLConfigReader.loadFeatureTypes(XMLConfigReader.java:1024)
at org.vfny.geoserver.global.xml.XMLConfigReader.loadCatalog(XMLConfigReader.java:297)
... 45 more
Dec 13, 2006 6:56:16 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log