Problem starting cougaar using communities

[Andreas]

I just went through the mesh demo and I am trying to convert some of my 
earlier test code to startup using runtime and society xml files.  
Before I made things work by copying files into various subfolders of 
the cougaar_install directories.

The following applies to my environment

    * Java 1.6
    * Cougaar 12.4
    * Windows 2000

I have installed cougaar to c:/cougaar and I have created a separate 
location for my test application APPA which is c:/cougaar_apps and 
c:/cougaar_apps/appa respectively.

When I run the application the community information cannot be loaded.  
I have included the trace at the end of this email.

I have copied the communities.xml to the c:/cougaar_apps/appa/config 
directory.

I seems as if the -Dorg.cougaar.config.path does not work.  I have used 
several different combinations in the BasicRuntime.xml file none of 
which worked.

Examples:
    
<vm_parameter>-Dorg.cougaar.config.path=c:/cougaar/configs/common\;C:/cougaar_apps/appa/config\</vm_parameter>
    
<vm_parameter>-Dorg.cougaar.config.path=c:/cougaar/configs/common;C:/cougaar_apps/appa/config</vm_parameter>
    
<vm_parameter>-Dorg.cougaar.config.path=c:/cougaar/configs/common</vm_parameter>
    
<vm_parameter>-Dorg.cougaar.config.path=C:/cougaar_apps/appa/config</vm_parameter>

I have attached a zip of all the directories in c:/cougaar_apps.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here.

Thanks,
Andreas




C:\cougaar_apps\appa\run>cougaar 
c:/cougaar_apps/appa/config/DirMonAgent.xml BasicRuntime.xml
C:\DOCUME~1\amundin\LOCALS~1\Temp\cougaar_exec055.bat
COUGAAR 12.4 built on Thu Sep 27 12:19:45 PDT 2007
Repository: B12_4 on Thu Sep 27 12:17:21 PDT 2007
VM: JDK 1.6.0_03-b05 (mixed mode)
OS: Windows 2000 (5.0)
2008-01-21 23:08:16,848 SHOUT [XMLComponentInitializerServiceProvider] - 
Initializing node "APPA" from XML file "c:/coug
aar_apps/appa/config/DirMonAgent.xml"
2008-01-21 23:08:21,625 WARN  [CommunityPlugin] - DirMonAgent: Unable to 
obtain community information for agent DirMonAg
ent
2008-01-21 23:08:21,625 FATAL [SuicideService] - Suicide from DirMonAgent
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.findMyStartupCommunities(CommunityPlugin.java:150)
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.joinStartupCommunities(CommunityPlugin.java:176)
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.setupSubscriptions(CommunityPlugin.java:99)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.blackboard.BlackboardClientComponent.precycle(BlackboardClientComponent.java:329)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.blackboard.BlackboardClientComponent$2.trigger(BlackboardClientComponent.java:245)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl.runInnerTrigger(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:233)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl.access$000(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:56)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl$2.trigger(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:98)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.agent.service.scheduler.SchedulerServiceProvider$WorkerBase.runTrigger(SchedulerServiceProvi
der.java:217)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.agent.service.scheduler.SchedulerServiceProvider$NormalScheduler$Worker.run(SchedulerService
Provider.java:313)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.SchedulableObject.run(SchedulableObject.java:118)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.ThreadPool$PooledThread.continuationLoop(ThreadPool.java:94)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.ThreadPool$PooledThread.run(ThreadPool.java:122)
2008-01-21 23:08:21,635 WARN  [CommunityPlugin] - DirMonMgr: Unable to 
obtain community information for agent DirMonMgr
2008-01-21 23:08:21,635 FATAL [SuicideService] - Suicide from DirMonMgr
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.findMyStartupCommunities(CommunityPlugin.java:150)
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.joinStartupCommunities(CommunityPlugin.java:176)
        at 
org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin.setupSubscriptions(CommunityPlugin.java:99)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.blackboard.BlackboardClientComponent.precycle(BlackboardClientComponent.java:329)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.blackboard.BlackboardClientComponent$2.trigger(BlackboardClientComponent.java:245)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl.runInnerTrigger(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:233)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl.access$000(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:56)
        at 
org.cougaar.util.SyncTriggerModelImpl$2.trigger(SyncTriggerModelImpl.java:98)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.agent.service.scheduler.SchedulerServiceProvider$WorkerBase.runTrigger(SchedulerServiceProvi
der.java:217)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.agent.service.scheduler.SchedulerServiceProvider$NormalScheduler$Worker.run(SchedulerService
Provider.java:313)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.SchedulableObject.run(SchedulableObject.java:118)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.ThreadPool$PooledThread.continuationLoop(ThreadPool.java:94)
        at 
org.cougaar.core.thread.ThreadPool$PooledThread.run(ThreadPool.java:122)

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