Error when manually uploading plugin in crowd 2.3.4

[venkat patchigolla]

Hi,

We tried uploading plugin manually in crowd (..\plugins\installed-plugins) and started the crowd. We got an error in log files saying

2012-03-08 12:19:35,949 main ERROR [atlassian.plugin.loaders.ScanningPluginLoader] Unable to deploy plugin 'null', file Unit: E:\ToolSet\Data\CrowdData\plugins\installed-plugins (1329978562541)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The artifact URI file:/E:/ToolSet/Data/CrowdData/plugins/installed-plugins/ is not a valid plugin artifact
at com.atlassian.plugin.DefaultPluginArtifactFactory.create(DefaultPluginArtifactFactory.java:38)
at com.atlassian.plugin.loaders.ScanningPluginLoader.deployPluginFromUnit(ScanningPluginLoader.java:112)
at com.atlassian.plugin.loaders.ScanningPluginLoader.loadAllPlugins(ScanningPluginLoader.java:89)
at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.init(DefaultPluginManager.java:136)
at com.atlassian.crowd.plugin.CrowdPluginManager.init(CrowdPluginManager.java:67)
at com.atlassian.crowd.plugin.CrowdPluginManager.onApplicationStartedEvent(CrowdPluginManager.java:80)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:36)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$2.run(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:60)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$1.execute(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:28)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.dispatch(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:56)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.invokeListeners(EventPublisherImpl.java:151)
at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.publish(EventPublisherImpl.java:70)
at com.atlassian.crowd.console.listener.StartupListener.contextInitialized(StartupListener.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:675)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1315)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

From the log life, what does the below error mean

ERROR [atlassian.plugin.loaders.ScanningPluginLoader] Unable to deploy plugin 'null', file Unit: E:\ToolSet\Data\CrowdData\plugins\installed-plugins (1329978562541)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The artifact URI file:/E:/ToolSet/Data/CrowdData/plugins/installed-plugins/ is not a valid plugin artifact.

Appreciate if some one look into it and reply us.

Regards,

venkat

[venkat patchigolla]

yes , it's a custom plugin to provide the links to other applications (jira, confluence ...) from crowd.

Actually we provided links to other applications in jira and confluence, in the same way we are trying for crowd.

The main intention is when a user is logged in to crowd, he should be able to navigate to other applications from the Application dropdownsome thing like this

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Is it a custom plugin? Looks like the plugin is not valid!