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Quick-Hit: JOTM on Tomcat for LiveCycle

If you’ve tried to set up a Tomcat Server to run LiveCycle Data Services you may know that it can be quite a bit more difficult than you anticipated, especially if you’re familiar with BlazeDS.

I thought things were going well until I tried to update the data that I had received from LiveCycle. At that point I received the infamous “Unable to access UserTransaction in DataService” error.

Adobe has some great information on fixing it, available here.

I followed their advice, but it still wasn’t working. Finally, one of my friends suggested that instead of putting the jar files in the {CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib folder that we put them in our WEB-INF/lib folder. We restarted our Tomcat Server, and thankfully it worked like a charm.