jboss-4.2.3.GA startup problem

[rvenki]

I have recently installed jboss-4.2.3.GA in my system (Windows-XP SP2). I have been using jboss for a while now. My previous version of jboss-4.0.3 runs fine on my machine. I have a jdk150_12 installed on my computer and my JAVA_HOME is set to that.

After unzipping the jboss-4.2.3 binary, i started up the default server by issuing run.bat command. I saw lot of errors in my server.log, I can't even access the jmx-console. I am sure the server didn't come up properly.

I got several errors. I am listing them one by one here.

2008-10-12 21:24:13,656 ERROR [org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean] Exception invoking method addChild
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/Resource

2008-10-12 21:24:13,672 ERROR [org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean] Exception invoking method init
javax.management.RuntimeErrorException: Error invoking method addChild

Caused by: javax.management.RuntimeErrorException: Error invoking method addChild

and MORE.......

All of these errors are seems to caused a missing class javax/annotation/Resource.

Is this a known bug or is it something to do with my JDK.

Can someone help me here.

Thanks
Venki

[jaikiran]

There are 2 versions of JBoss-4.2.3 GA. One for JDK6 and one for JDK5. You probably downloaded the JDK6 version which cannot be used with a JDK5. You have two options - either to use JDK6 or to download the JDK5 version of JBoss-4.2.3 GA

[rvenki]

Yes you are absolutely right. I grabbed the wrong version (i.e. jdk1.6). That fixed the problem.

Again thanks a lot.