Re: Unable to run OFBiz from Eclipse due to loading VFS configuration.

Posted by Bob Morley on Jul 31, 2009; 5:51am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Unable-to-run-OFBiz-from-Eclipse-due-to-loading-VFS-configuration-tp164499p164501.html

Same problem for me; here is what I have determined ...

- The root cause of the problem is that the classpath that Eclipse uses at runtime contains mutiple definitions of the same vfs-providers.xml file.  The exception below indicates that multiple providers were registered for "ofbiz-home" for example.

- If you remove vfs-providers.xml for your workspace and execute you will get a different variation of this exception (but this one related to "thick" or something like that).  I exploded the webslinger-20090630- ... jar and it indeed had an vfs-providers.xml file that contained a definition for that scheme (in fact there were two).  Not sure if it was this instance of the file or somewhere in my classpath the xml providers file has been included again.

At this point I elected just to run without webslinger (since it is not something I am using right now).  Since this is starting up containers, the easiest thing was for me to comment out the commons-vfs-container and webslinger-container.  I do not understand the entire impact of this, but at least I could run ofbiz and start debugging through Eclipse again.

Perhaps a webslinger expert could weigh in on a way to avoid this problem in Eclipse?

Ashish Vijaywargiya-4 wrote

In past I was able to run OFBiz inside Eclipse.
I tried to start OFBiz from Start.java file with Debug as --> Java
Application option in Eclipse.
But now a days I am getting following error.

Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Multiple providers
registered for URL scheme "ofbiz-home".