Problem starting JMeter under WindowsXP Shell

[Mike Smith <Mi...@starbucks.com>]

I have run older versions (a year ago) of JMeter on WindowsNT with no
problem, but am attempting to run v1.8 on XP and am having problems.

I have extracted the v1.8 release of JMeter onto my WindowsXP machine
and opened up to the command line with the following PATH setting (and
no CLASSPATH set):

C:\apps\JMeter\jakarta-jmeter\bin>echo %PATH%
C:\apps\jdk1.3.1\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\
Wbem

As you can see, I'm using Sun's jdk1.3.1.

I run JMeter and after a minute or two get the following exception (and
no GUI opens up):

C:\apps\JMeter\jakarta-jmeter\bin>jmeter
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerErr
or: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.Help.<clinit>(Help.java:51)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:115)
        at
org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.populateCommandMap(ActionRo
uter.java:185)
        at
org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.getInstance(ActionRouter.ja
va:220)
        at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.startGui(JMeter.java:185)
        at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:237)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:165)

Do I need to run an older version...or are there known JMeter problems
on XP?

Any help would be great.  Thanks, - Mike

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