Re: James / Excalibur ThreadPool conflict

Stephen McConnell wrote:

>
> Pete:
>
> Have finally got to a point where I'm running James inside Merlin again.
>
> But I'm gettig a rather odd exception.  The execution occurs after 
> James is established and running (about 30 seconds after).  The 
> exception (listed blow) is a NoSuchMethodError - raised when the 
> JamesSpoolManager invokes excecute, passing itself as an argument. I 
> looked into the sources and CVS history and discovered that 
> org.apache.avalon.excalibur.thread.ThreadPool.execute() interface was 
> changed by you about three months ago - retracting Runnable as a valid 
> argument in favour of Executable.  It appears that this breaks James 
> (based on the James HEAD and the current ThreadPool source.  What I 
> don't understand is how James could be running inside Phoneix without 
> problem unless nobody from James has executed a clean checkout of 
> Excalibur in the last 3 months.


Some additional observations:

Phoneix is using an old version of the excalibur-thread-1.0.jar (July 2002)

   James is runing againt excalibur-thread-1.0.jar (size 22k) from the 
Phoenix distribution
   Excalibur current build of excalibur-thread-1.0.jar (size 32k) 
appears to be incompatible

Phoneix gump is based on the current excalibur-thread-1.0.jar (size 32k)

No concrete conclusions from these observations other than the following:

   (a) the current excalibur-thread-1.0.jar does not appear to be 
backward compatible
       with the 22k version
   (b) getting James in sync should be a number 1 Avalon priority in 
order to get
       concrete feedback on changes we are making (across Cornerstone, 
Excalibur
       and Phoenix)

Cheers, Steve.

>
> Can you or anyone else (Avalon or James) shead any light on this?
>
> Chee rs, Steve.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
>   org.apache.avalon.excalibur.thread.ThreadPool.execute(
>     
> Ljava/lang/Runnable;)Lorg/apache/avalon/excalibur/thread/ThreadControl;
>  at org.apache.james.transport.JamesSpoolManager.initialize(
>    JamesSpoolManager.java:246)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>

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