Cactus properties file not located

[Russell Ray]

I am hoping someone with Cactus experience can guide me a little. I worked through a tutorial Cactus with WSAD yesterday using WSAD 5.1.2. It worked as designed with one exception. Today, I am using the article as my guide for WSAD 5.1.1 with an existing project and server. I have to admit, I am not very successful. I have re-traced my steps on the proper configuration of the Web and Client projects. In WSAD 5.1.1 and WSAD 5.1.2 I was not able to put the log_server.properties file under the classes directory because WSAD overwrites the classes directory each time the web project is re-built. In my EAR for the project, I can see the Cactus Web project's war file. However, I can not see the cactus.contextURL property inside the properties file and I am getting this exception:

   org.apache.cactus.util.ChainedRuntimeException: Missing Cactus property [cactus.contextURL]
at org.apache.cactus.internal.configuration.BaseConfiguration.getContextURL(BaseConfiguration.java:59)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.configuration.AbstractWebConfiguration.getRedirectorURL_aroundBody0(AbstractWebConfiguration.java:46)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.configuration.AbstractWebConfiguration.getRedirectorURL_aroundBody1$advice(AbstractWebConfiguration.java:306)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.configuration.AbstractWebConfiguration.getRedirectorURL(AbstractWebConfiguration.java)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.callRunTest(DefaultHttpClient.java:159)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest_aroundBody0(DefaultHttpClient.java:80)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest_aroundBody1$advice(DefaultHttpClient.java:306)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest(DefaultHttpClient.java)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runWebTest(HttpProtocolHandler.java:159)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest_aroundBody0(HttpProtocolHandler.java:80)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest_aroundBody1$advice(HttpProtocolHandler.java:306)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest(HttpProtocolHandler.java)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.ClientTestCaseCaller.runTest(ClientTestCaseCaller.java:144)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.AbstractCactusTestCase.runBareClient(AbstractCactusTestCase.java:215)
at org.apache.cactus.internal.AbstractCactusTestCase.runBare(AbstractCactusTestCase.java:133)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:392)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:276)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:167)
 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Russ