Jetspeed Argh!
I can't believe it is over a month since my last post. That shows what two weeks of vacation followed by two weeks of attending/hosting large meetings at work will do for you. Part of catching up from vacation is putting the pictures on the site for my family. This is a less tedious process since I wrote my automatic photo album, but it does still require renaming the picture files so that they make some sense. I thought I was all caught up when I renamed the last file.
I of course failed to reckon with my latest problem with Jetspeed. Lately I've been using the Maven Jetspeed plugin to develop a customized portal based on Jetspeed 1.5. I had it up and running for at least a month, and thought everything was fine. Once I'd uploaded the latest set of pictures, I tried to add an account for a family member so that they could get to the pictures. Boom: big exception stack trace. After much screaming and whining on my part, I finally tracked the problem down. I converted Jetspeed to run with MySQL 4.0.20 when I brought up this Weblog, because Roller doesn't work with Oracle. I had problems at first, because the mysql script distributed with Jetspeed doesn't work with Mysql 4.0.20. I found a mysql-4 script in current CVS head, and thought I was good to go. I was until the first time I tried to add a user! It turns out (after hours of investigation), that this script doesn't have the AUTO_INCREMENT keyword, and the exception stack trace that occurs when this problem happens is less than helpful.
Anyway, I'm back up now. All's well that ends well, I guess.