Problem while Starting up Jboss 2.4.3

[nsdeonia]

Hi

I am a new user to jboss 2.4.3 (previously i have worked with jboss 2.0).
I have downloaded and extracted the jboss 2.4.3 binary files. But when i give command run.bat to start the Jboss it is throwing following exception

[Default] ERROR! Shared library ioser12 could not be found.
[NamingService] Stopped
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Can't find SerialContextProvider
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.getProvider(SerialContext.java:60)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.(SerialContext.java:79)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory.getInitialContext(SerialInitContextFac
tory.java:54)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:668)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:246)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:222)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.(InitialContext.java:178)
at org.jboss.naming.NamingService.startService(NamingService.java:154)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:107)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.configuration.ConfigurationService$ServiceProxy.invoke(ConfigurationService.jav
a:836)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceControl.start(ServiceControl.java:81)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:221)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:127)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:123)

I am using NT 4.0 machine
using jDK 1.3
and ioser12.dll is very much in the system path....
can anybody help me finding what the problem is ??

Thanks in advance for any help

Narinder.

[adrian.brock]

What is your value of JAVA_HOME?
Does this have ioser12.dll in jre\bin?

Regards,
Adrian

[nsdeonia]

i have defined following

JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.3
My system path contains C:\jdk1.3\bin;C:\jdk1.3\jre\bin;
Also if i give the command 'java -jar run.jar' the JBoss shows

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/SAXException
at java.lang.Class.getConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructors(Class.java:775)
at com.sun.management.jmx.Introspector.testCompliance(Introspector.java:95)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MetaData.testCompliance(MetaData.java:132)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.createMBean(MBeanServerImpl.java:507)
at javax.management.loading.MLet.getMBeansFromURL(MLet.java:523)
at javax.management.loading.MLet.getMBeansFromURL(MLet.java:369)
at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:193)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:127)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:123)
[Default] javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: DefaultDomain:service=Configuration
[Default] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.getMBean(MBeanServerImpl.java:1678)
[Default]
[Default] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1522)
[Default]
[Default] at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:213)
[Default]
[Default] at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:127)
[Default]
[Default] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
[Default]
[Default] at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:123)

[adrian.brock]

Have a look at run.bat

You have to configure JAXP with some -D parameters
for your second method.

Regards,
Adrian

[nsdeonia]

I have solved it..

I had to make an environment variable
JBOSS_CLASSPATH=C:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar;C:\jdk1.3\jre\bin\ioser12.dll

Thanks for your valuable suggestions Adrian

Can you also tel me how to configure a database pool
in JBoss 2.4.3
I want to use Oracle 8.0.5


Regards
Narinder.

[juergenheidak]

Even though your problem is solved I've got another hint.

I get this error when a use the j2ee.jar file supplied from Sun in the j2ee sdk instead of the j2ee.jar file from jboss.

Using the right jarfile solves this problem without the need to set an enviroment variable.

[nsdeonia]

yes you are right Juergen.....
that also solve the problem and that too without defining a variable...
Thanks for your help

Regards
Narinder.