Thanks James,

I did find the problem. Tomcat 3.2.1 embedded inside JBuilder 5 did the
trick. After this it was quite straightforward, some quirks still..

1) Sample messenger.xml did contain reference to dtd file that I didn't have
(I took reference off)
2) Properties needed some thought before I got them fine (studied
javax.naming.Context static values)
3) Examples just needed addition of exception handling

To help any of you I'll put what I did to this message. This works with
WLS7+SP1 example server. Just install it, change configuration file path
from source and run these from your command line..

Messenger.XML
-------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manager>
  <!-- WLS 7 + SP1 queue test -->
  <messenger name="WLS_queue" jndiDestinations="true">
    <jndi lookupName="weblogic.examples.jms.QueueConnectionFactory"
topic="false">
      <property>
        <name>java.naming.factory.initial</name>
        <value>weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory</value>
      </property>
      <property>
        <name>java.naming.provider.url</name>
        <value>t3://127.0.0.1:7001</value>
      </property>
    </jndi>
  </messenger>
</manager>

SendMessage.java
----------------

package messengertest;

import org.apache.commons.messenger.*;
import javax.jms.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import org.apache.commons.logging.*;

public class sendMessage {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // sending
    //Log log = logFactory
    Log log = LogFactory.getLog("Tester");
    try {
      // --- NOTE: Change path!!!
      MessengerManager.configure("file:c:/dev/messengertest/messenger.xml");
      log.info("Messenger configured");
      // get a Messenger and Destination
      Messenger messenger = MessengerManager.get("WLS_queue");
      log.info("WLS_queue initialized");
      Destination destination = messenger.getDestination
("weblogic.examples.jms.exampleQueue");
      log.info("Destination found");
      // now lets send a message
      TextMessage message = messenger.createTextMessage("testi");
      log.info("Message created");
      messenger.send( destination, message );
      log.info("Message sent");
    } catch (JMSException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      log.error("Sending error", e);
    }
  }
}

ReadMessage.java
----------------

package messengertest;

import org.apache.commons.messenger.*;
import javax.jms.*;
import org.apache.commons.logging.*;

public class ReadMessage {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // sending
    //Log log = logFactory
    Log log = LogFactory.getLog("Tester");
    try {
      // --- NOTE: Change path!!!
      MessengerManager.configure("file:c:/dev/messengertest/messenger.xml");
      log.info("Messenger configured");
      // get a Messenger and Destination
      Messenger messenger = MessengerManager.get("WLS_queue");
      log.info("WLS_queue initialized");
      Destination destination = messenger.getDestination
("weblogic.examples.jms.exampleQueue");
      log.info("Destination found");
      // now lets read a message
      Message message = messenger.receive(destination);
      log.info("Message received");
      System.out.println("Got text: "+((TextMessage)message).getText());
      log.info("Message parsed");
    } catch (JMSException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      log.error("receiving error", e);
    }
  }
}

If any of you needs straightforward message receiving and sending facade
this one is easy to understand and gives some extras too..

- Jukkis

-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
Lähettäjä: James Strachan [mailto:james_strachan@yahoo.co.uk]
Lähetetty: 6. joulukuuta 2002 20:16
Vastaanottaja: Jukka Nikki; commons-user@jakarta.apache.org
Aihe: Re: [messenger] problem running messenger


From: "Jukka Nikki" <Jukka.Nikki@Kolumbus.fi>
> Hi James,
>
> I'm sorry to disturb you, but I do have problem with nightly build of
> messenger. I think I do have all needed libraries, but system halts within
> first test to "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError" message..
>
> ..
>
> 2002-12-06 07:41:40 - Ctx( /mestest ): Exception in: R( /mestest +
> /sendmessageservlet + null) - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError at
> org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:607) at
> org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1338) at

The problem appears to be in digester performing a SAX parse, rather than in
messenger per-se. So it seems like you've an old SAX jar on the classpath
somewhere?

It might be worth trying the xml-apis-1.0b2.jar instead as thats actually
more recent (the 2.0.* versions are wrong).

http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/xml-apis/jars/

Unless someone else has any bright ideas?


>
org.apache.commons.messenger.MessengerManager.load(MessengerManager.java:57)
> ..
>
> I'd like to know if 5.12.2002 build is stable enought or should I try some
> other and if these dependencies are still correct.
>
> commons-logging  1.0  commons-logging-1.0.jar
> commons-beanutils  1.3  commons-beanutils-1.3.jar
> commons-collections  2.0  commons-collections-2.0.jar
> commons-digester  1.2  commons-digester-1.2.jar
> servletapi  2.3  servletapi-2.3.jar
> jms  1.0.2b  jms-1.0.2b.jar
> xml-apis  2.0.0  xml-apis-2.0.0.jar
> ant  1.4.1  ant-1.4.1.jar
> junit  3.7  junit-3.7.jar
>
> I had some problems finding xml-apis, which is the correct place to look
for
> them?
>
> I am testing with WLS 7.0+SP1 - is there any mysteries with it?
>
> I'm glad if you have time to help me, this is quite nice abstraction and
it
> deserves to become widely used..

Thanks!

James
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