I currently have a 4.2 install. I have an existing version Tomcat and in order to use Konakart I just added "ln -s /where/i/inziped/kona konakart" in the existing webapps folder to a symbolic link to where I inziped the distribution. This worked fine.
However, I've just done the same for 5. Unziped the generic distribution and added a link for my tomcats webapps/konakart to the webapps/konakart in the distribution. I created a new v5 demo database and changed the props to point to that.
when I start I get this error;
20-Jun-2010 13:03:28 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: KonaKartAdminServlet: ERROR: The serialization policy file '/2CBBA8219730A59BACBFD106A0095FA8.gwt.rpc' was not found; did you forget to include it in this deployment?
20-Jun-2010 13:03:28 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: KonaKartAdminServlet: WARNING: Failed to get the SerializationPolicy '2CBBA8219730A59BACBFD106A0095FA8' for module '
http://www.perfectskinshop.co.uk:8080/konakartadmin/'; a legacy, 1.3.3 compatible, serialization policy will be used. You may experience SerializationExceptions as a result.
20-Jun-2010 13:03:29 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.SerializationException: Type 'com.konakartadmin.app.KKAdminException' was not assignable to 'com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.IsSerializable' and did not have a custom field serializer.For security purposes, this type will not be serialized.: instance = com.konakartadmin.app.KKAdminException: Exception Message = The session not set cannot be found
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serialize(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:610)
at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.writeObject(AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.java:129)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter$ValueWriter$8.write(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:152)