how to run jbossas4 under maverick?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  replying to my own post from earlier:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   asking from a position of massive ignorance of how jboss works, all
> i want to do is install and invoke the jboss server on my maverick
> system so:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get install jbossas4
>
> after which:
>
> $ dpkg -L jbossas4
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/jbossas4
> /usr/share/doc/jbossas4/README.Debian
> /usr/share/doc/jbossas4/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/jbossas4/changelog.Debian.gz
> /usr/share/java
> /usr/share/java/jboss-run-4.2.3.GA.jar
> /usr/share/java/jboss-shutdown-4.2.3.GA.jar
> /usr/share/java/jboss-run.jar
> /usr/share/java/jboss-shutdown.jar
> $
>
>   ok, i'm used to seeing things like service scripts under /etc/init.d
> but, in this case, there is none so, what the heck:
>
> $ java -jar /usr/share/java/jboss-run.jar
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/getopt/LongOpt
> 	at org.jboss.Main.processCommandLine(Main.java:242)
> 	at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:106)
> 	at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:508)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.getopt.LongOpt
> 	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
> 	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> 	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
> 	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
> 	... 4 more
> $
>
> and, apparently, i'm not the only one:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jbossas4/+bug/367984
>
>   so ... what am i doing that's trivially stupid?

  after a bit of googling, i tracked down the ubuntu package
libgetopt-java which i thought would solve the problem but, sadly,
same error.  still confused ...

rday

-- 


========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================