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Tomcat & Windows XP Troubleshooting SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.0

This post is about Russell Beech in discussion on the SAP Forum. SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise was installed on a machine running Windows XP. It was being used for development, POC and sales demo purposes. Windows XP was a constraint imposed by the standard build of the organisation that he was working for. Russell identified that the issue was a clash between Java components and Windows XP. This issue was becoming very time consuming and the solution was looking more and more like it needed a Java customisation. Not wanting to pursue that route Russell finally got permission to install Windows Server 2003. The problems were instantly solved. The forum thread is reproduced below as it gives useful insights into troubleshooting or go to http://forums.sdn.sap.com/message.jspa?messageID=6076352 to view it on the forum.

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Russell Beech

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Registered: 8/26/08

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XI 3.0 Tomcat Service Will Not Start

Posted: Aug 26, 2008 4:23 PM

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I have installed Enterprise XI 3.0 from the Business Objects ESD site. I took the option to install Tomcat. The Tomcat service installed but will not start from the CCM or the .bat file.

I expected that as in previous releases Tomcat would be configured through the install. All other Business Objects services are running.

Has anyone had the same experience? Does anyone have a fix?

Best regards

Russ

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SAP Business Objects Designer

 

Universe Designer is a graphical design tool used to create the rich “semantic layer” (metadata) that makes SAP Business Objects products intuitive for non-technical users. It’s a graphical abstraction of the dimensional models that exist in your data warehouse. It auto-generates the Structured Query Language that interrogates the database tables so that business users do not need to understand this language or even know that it exists.

When the SAP BusinessObjects SAP Integration Kit is installed you can also create a universe based on your SAP Business Information Warehouse data using Universe Designer. This XML based universe will use the MDX language. You can combine the SAP data with your relational data (e.g. Teradata) by synchronisation within Web Intelligence.

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Business Objects Universe Builder

Universe Builder is the SAP Business Objects software application that allows you to generate a universe from XML metadata sources and Oracle Analytic Services.

After opening Universe Builder and connecting to a metadata source, a universe creation wizard maps the metadata structures to equivalent classes, objects, dimensions, and details used in a standard SAP BusinessObjects universe. When the mapping is complete the universe auto-generates.