I was hitting a few issues with Windows 7 (presumably hitting all Windows favors). I was on jdk1.6 (32 bit).
The problems were related to how the xml parser handles DOCTYPE SYSTEM path. Windows JVM doesn't like "file://" prefixes and threw when it see them.
With the patch, I was able to see the login page (login throws NPE) and see most admin page (the "User configuration" page seemed...