Glen Smith

I’ve cut over from Pebble 1.9 to 2.0 RC1 without too many issues. But for those of you attempting this down the track, here are a few of my hurts to learn from…

First it would not display any of my previous 1.9 entries. Whenever I attempted to reindex it would dump out FATAL errors to the logs. I finally wound up logging on the Pebble DAO stuff and saw:

Loading /data/pebble/blogs/glen/2004/03/13/1079209312000.xml
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.

Turns out some of my old pebble blog entries must have died with a 0 length file (there was typically a .bak file right next door which I could just rename). Once that was sorted, a full reindex and they all came back. Phew!

The next hurdle was getting RSS feeds working again. Due to a bug in Jetty that Greg discussed on the mailing list, .xml files weren’t being processed correctly. I ended up having to add the following entries to Pebble’s web.xml:


<servlet>
    <servlet-name>jspxml</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet </servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jspxml</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.xml</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

Pebble 2.0 looks really good. Simon’s made the move to a total Spring solution with this release, using Acegi for the security engine, so I’m keen to take a wander through the source - been meaning to learn Acegi for ages.

Big props to Simon and the guys for a great new release!