A Portal to a Portal

During that project, I hit a related problem whereby we were unable to get the sample portlets to render properly - we were attempting to render a portlet from a remote Webform server.

To cut a long and painful (!) story short, the problem was that we were trying ( unbeknown to me ) to run the Java APIs on a 64-bit JVM. Given that the Java byte code interacts with some native OS binaries, this was never going to work.

The key message ( in SystemOut.log ) was: -

Did not realize init() exception thrown by servlet Translator: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: pe_cc (/usr/lib/libpe_cc.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32.)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithPath(ClassLoader.java:981)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithClassLoader(ClassLoader.java:950)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:453)
at com.PureEdge.DTK.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:194)

This Technote: -

describes a similar symptom.

The solution - it's not possible to use the Lotus Forms Server products on a 64-bit JVM - this MAY change in a future release, but it ain't going to work in the short-term.