Visual Composer - Error with Portal Connection

[Former Member]

Hi!

we have an EP 6.0 SP9 and Visual Composer SP4 on Win2000. When I

try to connect Visual Composer to the Portal I get the following

Error Message

<i> Portal Runtime Error

An Expection ocurred while processing a request for:

iview: N/A

Componente Name: N/A

com/sapportals/htmlb/Container.

Exception id: 08:36_04/05/05_0010_8854550

See the details for the Exception ID in the log file</i>

The corresponding part from the log file:

<i>#

#1.5#000D601CB13300510000000300000D980003F64213D4BF0E#1115188591125#com.sap.portal.portal#sap.com/irj#com.sap.portal.portal#Guest#18####d9cd3250bc6611d9bb67000d601cb133#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_14##0#0#Error#1#/System/Server#Java###Exception ID:08:36_04/05/05_0010_8854550

[EXCEPTION]

#1#com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentException: Error in init method

Component : com.sap.portal.guimachine.portalconnector.Login

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContext.init(PortalComponentContext.java:251)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentContextItem.refresh(PortalComponentContextItem.java:267)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentContextItem.getContext(PortalComponentContextItem.java:312)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentRequest.getComponentContext(PortalComponentRequest.java:385)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.PortalRequest.getRootContext(PortalRequest.java:435)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.runRequestCycle(PortalRequestManager.java:607)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.ServletConnection.handleRequest(ServletConnection.java:232)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher$doService.run(Dispatcher.java:522)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher.service(Dispatcher.java:405)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:153)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:385)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:263)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:340)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:318)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:821)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:239)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:147)

at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:37)

at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.UnorderedChannel$MessageRunner.run(UnorderedChannel.java:71)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:94)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:162)

Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentInstantiationException: Could not instantiate implementation class com.sap.guimachine.portalconnector.Login of Portal Component com.sap.portal.guimachine.portalconnector.Login because: Linkage error while loading implementation class

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentItemFacade.getInstanceInternal(PortalComponentItemFacade.java:234)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentItemFacade.getComponentInstance(PortalComponentItemFacade.java:160)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentItem.getComponentInstance(PortalComponentItem.java:732)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContext.getComponent(PortalComponentContext.java:103)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContext.init(PortalComponentContext.java:242)

... 26 more

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sapportals/htmlb/Container

at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalComponentItemFacade.getInstanceInternal(PortalComponentItemFacade.java:228)

... 30 more</i>

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated,

Alexander Schulz

[Former Member]

Alexander,

I imagine that this happens to you when you are trying to login to the portal from the Visual Composer. Have you already installed the appropriate add-ons to the portal via the SDM? With the Patch 4 installation you downloaded there is a folder in the archive called add-ons, inside this folder are some archive files:

BIUDISystems.sda

com.sap.visualcomposer.BIKit.sda

com.sap.visualcomposer.BIKitQV.ear

com.sap.visualcomposer.portalcontent.sda

com.sap.visualcomposer.sda

Deploy these files to the portal and try to login to the portal again.

Cheers,

Scott

[Former Member]

hello Scott,

the problem occured with VC SP4 and EP SP9. This combination doesn't work. We patched the portal to SP11 and re-deployed VC add-ons and now the connection works fine.

thanks,

Alexander