Spring/*Hibernate*/Struts - "Error parsing XML"

[Roger Yates]

I'm trying to get to grips with Spring/Hibernate/Struts using a cut-down variant of AppFuse. When starting Tomcat (5.5) having deployed my first hibernate definition, I get "Error parsing XML..." as shown in the extract of output below.

INFO - AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(158) | Creating shared instance of singleton bean 'sessionFactory'
INFO - Environment.<clinit>(462) | Hibernate 2.1.4
INFO - Environment.<clinit>(491) | hibernate.properties not found
INFO - Environment.<clinit>(522) | using CGLIB reflection optimizer
ERROR - XMLHelper$ErrorLogger.error(48) | Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(1) The markup declarations 
contained or pointed to by the document type declaration must be well-formed.
ERROR - Configuration.addInputStream(292) | Could not configure datastore from input stream
org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document 
<a href="http://lb1.netster.com/index.asp?t=0&Site=aGliZXJuYXRlLnNvdXJjWZvdXJnZS5uZXQ=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://lb1.netster.com/index.asp?t=0&Site=aGliZXJuYXRlLnNvdXJjWZvdXJnZS5uZXQ=</a> 
: The markup declarations contained or pointed to by the document type declaration must be well-formed.
Nested exception: The markup declarations contained or pointed to by the document type declaration must be well-formed.
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:355)
        at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:283)

I also notice that the output mentions lb1.netster.com. What is 'netster' doing here? Is it causing me a problem? If so, how do I stop the webserver from looking there?

The xml that should be evaluated is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourcefourge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="org.appfuse.model.User" table="app_user">
        <id name="id" column="id" unsaved-value="0">
            <generator class="increment" />
</id>
<property name="firstName" column="first_name" not-null="true"/>
<property name="lastName" column="last_name" not-null="true"/>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Any ideas what could be going wrong?
Assume nothing - I could have made some very basic error!

[ March 14, 2006: Message edited by: Roger Yates ]

[Roger Yates]

I don't believe it!

Yes, it was a basic error, but lead me to erroneously believing I'd been infected with some netster spyware that had somehow gotten into Tomcat!

This:

"http://hibernate.sourcefourge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd"  

should have been this:

"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd"

Somehow, I managed to type an extra 'u' into sourceforge :roll: .
The domain 'sourcefourge.net' has been taken by netster and the request gets redirected to the netster site, causing my XML to be invalid!

I'd have wasted a lot less time if I'd got an invalid URL message rather than finding netster in my output! Thanks a bunch netster - NOT!

Not amused, but happy to be back in action again.

I considered deleting my former post, but have left it here for the unlikely event that someone else hits the same problem. (And I thought I'd checked that XML soooo carefully!)

For the record, removing that extra 'u' results in a lovely set of creation messages beginning with a 'Mapping Class' message.

[ March 14, 2006: Message edited by: Roger Yates ]