Getting started with archiva

[Dirk Olmes <di...@xanthippe.ping.de>]

Hi,

I wanted to take a look at archiva for some time now, finally I found
the time to do so. I did a fresh svn checkout and issued "mvn compile"
from the commandline - no success. I had to define the codehaus snapshot
repo and the apache plugin snapshot repo in my settings.xml in order to
get archiva built. Shouldn't these two repositories be listed in
archiva's toplevel pom to avoid these annoyances for normal users?

Now I'm trying to start archiva as per "Getting Started" from the
generated site. I have unpacked the plexus package, started the
bin/plexus.sh and get the following error when I access the front page:

WARNUNG: /:
Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

I have taken a brief look at the plexus.sh and verified that the
variable TOOLS_JAR is setup correctly. Now I'm stuck.

-dirk

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Re: Getting started with archiva ... still

[Dirk Olmes <di...@xanthippe.ping.de>]

Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
>>> Now I'm trying to start archiva as per "Getting Started" from the
>>> generated site. I have unpacked the plexus package, started the
>>> bin/plexus.sh and get the following error when I access the front page:
>>>
>>> WARNUNG: /:
>>> Unable to find a javac compiler;
>>> com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
>>> Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
>>>
>>> I have taken a brief look at the plexus.sh and verified that the
>>> variable TOOLS_JAR is setup correctly. Now I'm stuck.
>>
>> How would I proceed from here? What do I have to to in order to make
>> plexus/archiva find my tools.jar?
> 
> You need to add tools.jar in the classpath in plexus.sh.
> File an issue about it and we'll add it later in plexus.sh generation

Indeed, if I patch plexus.sh to have tools.jar on the classpath that's
plassed to the java command everything works as expected.

See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-209

-dirk

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A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: Getting started with archiva ... still

[Emmanuel Venisse <em...@venisse.net>]

Dirk Olmes a écrit :
> Dirk Olmes wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
> [... first part deleted to focus on my main stumbling point ...]
> 
>> Now I'm trying to start archiva as per "Getting Started" from the
>> generated site. I have unpacked the plexus package, started the
>> bin/plexus.sh and get the following error when I access the front page:
>>
>> WARNUNG: /:
>> Unable to find a javac compiler;
>> com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
>> Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
>>
>> I have taken a brief look at the plexus.sh and verified that the
>> variable TOOLS_JAR is setup correctly. Now I'm stuck.
> 
> How would I proceed from here? What do I have to to in order to make
> plexus/archiva find my tools.jar?

You need to add tools.jar in the classpath in plexus.sh.
File an issue about it and we'll add it later in plexus.sh generation

Emmanuel

RE: Getting started with archiva ... still

["Mohni, Daniel" <da...@ch.unisys.com>]

Hi Dirk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Olmes [mailto:dirk@xanthippe.ping.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:02 AM
> To: archiva-users@maven.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Getting started with archiva ... still
> 
> Dirk Olmes wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> [... first part deleted to focus on my main stumbling point ...]
> 
> > Now I'm trying to start archiva as per "Getting Started" from the
> > generated site. I have unpacked the plexus package, started the
> > bin/plexus.sh and get the following error when I access the 
> front page:
> > 
> > WARNUNG: /:
> > Unable to find a javac compiler;
> > com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
> > Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
> > 
> > I have taken a brief look at the plexus.sh and verified that the
> > variable TOOLS_JAR is setup correctly. Now I'm stuck.
> 
> How would I proceed from here? What do I have to to in order to make
> plexus/archiva find my tools.jar?
> 
> -dirk
> 

looking at the plexus.sh I found a source of problem...

<snip>
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
  if [ -e /etc/gentoo-release ] ; then
    JAVA_HOME=`java-config --jre-home`
  fi
fi
</snip>

as I only have a windows machine I can not check that part but
you defenitly need JAVA_HOME to be set to the JDK and not the JRE.

The JRE doesn't have the tools.jar in windows... 

<snip>
if [ -z "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
  if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME"  ] ; then
    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
      # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
    else
      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
    fi
  else
    JAVACMD=java
  fi
fi
</snip>

this may also be a problem depending on the java.sh used
-> maybe '$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java' is setting another classpath
   as '$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java'

HtH 

Daniel

Re: Getting started with archiva ... still

[Dirk Olmes <di...@xanthippe.ping.de>]

Dirk Olmes wrote:
> Hi,

[... first part deleted to focus on my main stumbling point ...]

> Now I'm trying to start archiva as per "Getting Started" from the
> generated site. I have unpacked the plexus package, started the
> bin/plexus.sh and get the following error when I access the front page:
> 
> WARNUNG: /:
> Unable to find a javac compiler;
> com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
> Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
> 
> I have taken a brief look at the plexus.sh and verified that the
> variable TOOLS_JAR is setup correctly. Now I'm stuck.

How would I proceed from here? What do I have to to in order to make
plexus/archiva find my tools.jar?

-dirk

-- 
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?