This post simply details the caveats related to running apache tomcat + apache axis 1.3 on Mac OS 10.5.

Thanks to this blog post, I figured out that this exception:

java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character ‘*’ near index 0
*.local
^
at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1650)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1787)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1687)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1397)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1124)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:817)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.matches(Pattern.java:919)
at java.lang.String.matches(String.java:1921)

Was caused by broken regular expressions in the proxy configurations for both the ethernet and airport network interfaces. Removing those entries fixed the problem.

More caveats probably to come.

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