tc Server is unable to start if specifying multiple org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.PROPERTY_SOURCE

Products

• VMware Tanzu tc Server

Issue/Introduction

From your tc Server instance configuration you are used

 Listener classname="com.springsource.tcserver.properties.SystemProperties" 

as described here.

Then on catalina.properties you also added more than one property source:

org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.PROPERTY_SOURCE = com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder,org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.EnvironmentPropertySource

as described on tomcat docs you can specify multiple classes separated by comma but this throws an error:

source[com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder,org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.EnvironmentPropertySource].

    java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder,org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.EnvironmentPropertySource

 

You checked and made sure classes specified in PROPERTY_SOURCE is existing.  If you only put one class instead of 2 classes the error/exception above is not thrown.

 

Environment

tc Runtime Version: 9.0.87.B.RELEASE and earlier versions
tc Runtime Version: 10.1.20.A.RELEASE and earlier versions

Resolution

This is a known bug with com.springsource.tcserver.properties.SystemProperties and are fix on the following tc Server versions:

• tc Server version 4.1.33 onwards
• tc Server version 5.0.12 onwards