Re: Simple Embedded Merlin App

Sukhvinder Gill wrote:

> I finally got my embedded app working by including many libraries. 

Not a good idea!

> After
> further investigation
> I think this was probably not the correct way to resolve  the issue, rather
> the avalon-repository bootstrapping should actually taken care of this, 

Yep - you should have only one rather small jar file in you classpath.

   avalon-repository-main-2.0.0.jar

In the tutorial pack you will find the tutorials/main example.  If you 
update the source to reference 3.3.0 everything should work just fine. 
Also your own example should be ok as well but after updating your 
bootstrap classpath - if you have any problems yell out and we will sort 
things out.  Things to keep in such an event are:

1. the source to your embedder
2. the command line your using to bootstrap with
3. contents of ${user.dir}/merlin.properties
4. the stacktrace

> The class java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError seems to suggest that it cannot
> find the avalon-framework artifcats from the repository. 


This suggests a classloader stack conflict which is almost certainly a 
result of putting extra jars into the bootstrap classpath.

My local repository
> is h:\merlin\system which does seem to contain
> avalon-framework artifact.
> 
> below is contents of the meta file for merlin artifact and all the files
> held in the respositry h:\merlin\system.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing the point here, I thought it would simply loads in the
> jars it was dependent on at runtime. Is there any override critera I need to
> pass to merlin when it is bootstrapping it self on the
> location of the repostory ?

Yes - but to provide a proper answer could you post the details of the 
inital context creation from your example?  Also, have you created a 
merlin.properties file and set the following property values:

merlin.info = true
merlin.debug = true

This can be very useful to figure out what is happening.

Cheers, Stephen.

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