Re: rmic/classpath issues

> I recently installed JDK 1.4.2-07 on my linux box. I've been trying
> to get a stub from my RMI server using rmic withouth any success.
>
> What I've got basically is a server class in a directory called
> 'bin' and some libraries it depends on, in a diferent directory
> called 'lib', both directories inside my application dir.
>
> What I had been doing in windoze is something like this:
>
> rmic -classpath "bin:lib/xxxx.jar:lib/xxxx.jar:..." -d bin Server
>
> This worked on win with no problems. However in linux I get a
> beatiful:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while
> resolving class: Server
> [...]
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration not found in
> [file:/usr/java/j2se/jre/lib/rt.jar, file:./, core:/]
> [...]
>
> Obviously rmic is not findind my jars. I've tried everything without any
> result.

How sure are you that you are using the rmic tool from Sun's JDK?

The Sun JDK's rmic does not load application classes into its VM with
class loaders[*]-- it uses an internal library to read and process
application class files, like javac does-- so that exception does not
make sense.  It would be helpful if you provided the complete stack
trace of the exception.

> I recently noticed however, from the output of 'rmic --help', that
> rmic is ignoring the -classpath option, which is weird enough.

I don't understand that statement-- the usage message for rmic tool
from Sun's JDK (1.4.2, Linux or otherwise) should not say anything
about ignoring the -classpath option; it should list it as supported:

...
  -classpath <path>      Specify where to find input class files
  -bootclasspath <path>  Override location of bootstrap class files
  -extdirs <path>        Override location of installed extensions
...

> This must be a linux-only issue :?  Any clues?

It seems to me that you must be executing some other rmic tool on this
Linux machine, not the one from the Sun JDK (1.4.2 or otherwise).

-- Peter

[*] at least not when none of the CORBA options, like -iiop or -idl,
are used

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