Fix for 'org.xml.sax.SAXException'

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Summary

This article is about the fix for 'org.xml.sax.SAXException'" in the flexnet log for seemingly no particular reason. This may also be accompanied by an exception when a FlexNet Agent fails to connect with the FlexNet Manager.

Symptoms

Error in flexnet.log below.

2007-08-29 09:38:49,752  ERROR [platform.wsdd] [main] wsdd/manager/usagehistory.wsdd
org.apache.axis.InternalException: org.apache.axis.ConfigurationException: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Fatal Error: URI=null Line=157: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Fatal Error: URI=null Line=157: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils.newDocument(XMLUtils.java:322)
 at org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils.newDocument(XMLUtils.java:335)
 at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine(FileProvider.java:209)
 at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init(AxisEngine.java:187)
 at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>(AxisEngine.java:172)
 at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>(AxisServer.java:126)
 at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:148)
 at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:112)
 at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:111)
 at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:221)
 at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:187)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.getDeployment(AutoRegisterServlet.java:206)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.registerStream(AutoRegisterServlet.java:123)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.registerResource(AutoRegisterServlet.java:147)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.registerAndLogResource(AutoRegisterServlet.java:268)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.autoRegister(AutoRegisterServlet.java:246)
 at com.macrovision.flexnet.web.platform.container.AutoRegisterServlet.init(AutoRegisterServlet.java:107)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.start(ServletHolder.java:220)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initializeServlets(ServletHandler.java:445)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.initializeServlets(WebApplicationHandler.java:150)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.start(WebApplicationContext.java:458)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.plus.PlusWebAppContext.start(PlusWebAppContext.java:133)
 at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:663)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.plus.Server.start(Server.java:135)
 at org.mortbay.jetty.plus.Server.main(Server.java:184)
 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:324)
 at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:153)
 at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:483)
 at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:91)

Cause

Resolution

The fix for this problem is to do a flexnet site make. Do the following:

1 > flexnet stop

2 > flexnet site make

3 > flexnet start