[Exist-commits] problems with exist

[abayomi k. <aba...@ya...>]

MY name is Abayomi King.  I downloaded your application for use in my MSc 
project which was to build a system on a flexible workflow architecture with an 
XML database on the back-end.  Machine is an IBM PIII operating on Windows 2000. 
 I encountered some difficulties and have documented them for you.
1.  After the installation of eXist was completed, two shortcuts were placed on 
the Desktop.  One to start the database, and the other to start the client.  By 
double clicking the shortcuts, the user was suppose to start the database and 
the client.  However this did not work.  When it was attempted to start the 
database using the shortcut, a command prompt appeared, but before execution was 
complete it disappeared, indicating that a command was not accurately carried 
out.  It was attempted to identify the command in the startup batch file that 
caused the error.  This was done by editing the startup file by placing a 
'pause' command after each command in the file.  No visible error was thrown 
until a particular  line was attempted to be executed.  This line was:
set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms64000k -Xmx256000k -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-Djava.endorsed.dirs="%JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS%"
While executing the edited batch file (the one with the 'pause' commands), the 
prompt "Press any key to continue" appeared on the command prompt reflecting the 
'pause' statement just before the above executable line.  When a key was pressed 
the command prompt disappeared, indicating an error in the above line.  The 
attached file labeled "startup.bat" contains the original startup file with the 
added 'pause' commands.  The error thrown is as shown below.
Press any key to continue . . .
Press any key to continue . . .
Press any key to continue . . .
Press any key to continue . . .
Invalid initial heap size: -Xms64000k -Xmx256000k -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-Djava.endorsed.dirs
="C:\Program
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
C:\>
In order for the batchfile to workit was necessary to replace the variables with 
their values in the batchfile.  This resulted in the following file
set EXIST_HOME=C:\Progra~1\eXist
C:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin\java -Xms64000k -Xmx256000k -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-Djava.endorsed.dirs="C:\Program Files\eXist\lib\endorsed" 
-Dexist.home="C:\Program Files\eXist" -jar "C:\Program Files\eXist\start.jar" 
jetty %1
Double clicking this file started the database succesfully.  The same occured 
for the client file.
2.  In the documentation for eXist, on the 'quick start.htm' page, a page 
'xadmin.xsp' which provided simple administrative access to eXist via the url 
'http://exist.sourceforge.net/xadmin.xsp.html' did not reveal the desired page.  
No page was revealed. 'Error 404, Not Found', was generated.  It read:
Not Found
The requested URL /xadmin.xsp.html was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.26 Server at exist.sourceforge.net Port 80
A similar situation with a similar error message occured for all the references 
made mentioned in Section 8 (Sample pages) on the 'quick start.htm' page.
The Shutdown sequence was not succesfull when it was attempted to shutdown the 
database via 'start' menu.  This shutdown option was located in the start, 
programs, eXist XML Database, Shutdown Database.  However, shuting down the 
database from the command prompt via the line 'C:\PROGRA~1\eXist>java -jar 
start.jar shutdown' does.

		
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