Hi Lars,
Attached is a screenshot of the classpath on Windows environment. The
icon in this environment is slightly different. I have added this
through Advanced -> Add Folder option.
Cheers,
Henrique
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>
> Am 15.10.2008 um 22:03 schrieb Henrique Prange:
>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>> when trying to launch a Maven based WOApplication inside Eclipse 3.4
>>> / WOLips 3.4.5503 on a Windows XP machine which HASN'T WebObjects
>>> installed at first I got some null pointer exception which had
>>> something to do with not being able to read certain environment
>>> variables (I had a stacktrace on it inside the error log view in
>>> Eclipse but my co-worker did hit the clear button when trying to work
>>> the problem out while I was at lunch :-( After that I could never
>>> reproduce it, even when deleting the environment variables and
>>> restarting the machine). Before I went to lunch we tried to set the
>>> environment variables mentioned in
>>> <http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Installing+WebObjects-WOLips+on+Windows>
>>> to the following values to see what happens:
>>> NEXT_ROOT=C:\Apple
>>> WEBOBJECTS_JAVA_EXTENSIONS=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\ext
>>> WEBOBJECTS_JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME%
>>
>> This is not required.
>>
>>> However, the NPE went away and the following came up:
>>> [2008-10-14 16:58:1 CEST] <main> <WOResourceManager> Unable to locate
>>> the "JavaWebObjects" bundle
>>> [2008-10-14 16:58:1 CEST] <main> Unable to initialize WOProperties
>>> for reason: Cannot find JavaWebObjects framework !
>>> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to locate the
>>> "JavaWebObjects" bundle
>>> [2008-10-14 16:58:1 CEST] <main> A fatal exception occurred:
>>> <WOApplication>: Cannot be initialized.
>>> [2008-10-14 16:58:1 CEST] <main>
>>> com.webobjects.foundation.NSForwardException
>>> [java.lang.IllegalStateException] Unable to locate the
>>> "JavaWebObjects" bundle:<WOApplication>: Cannot be initialized.
>>
>> Have you added the
>> ${project}/build/${project}.woa/Contents/Resources/Java folder to the
>> classpath when running the application? (You can check in the Run
>> Configurations panel)
>
> the classpath did look like this:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> I then added
> TankDiskServer/build/TankDiskServer.woa/Contents/Resources/Java manually
> as classpath variable like this:
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> but that did not help the cause. Btw, the Maven Classpath Container is
> provided by the Q4E plugin: http://code.google.com/p/q4e/
> http://q4e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite/ if that is of any
> importance
>
>
>>
>>> What makes me wonder is that even when launching a Maven based
>>> WOApplication a static WO installation seems to be required and
>>> referred (environment variables).
>>
>> Believe me, it is not necessary. I've tested an old project right now
>> only with Windows, Eclipse and Java installed.
>>
>>> Shouldn't it work out of the box without any WO installed at the
>>> machine at all (and loading all the dependencies from the local
>>> .m2/repository instead)
>>
>> Yes. Using Maven should be the easiest way to develop WO applications
>> in Windows.
>>
>>> Is this a bug or a misconception on my side?
>>
>> I think the best answer is: lack of documentation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Henrique
>>
>
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
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