IllegalAnnotationsException, JAXB when running demos

[syg6]

I'm trying to get both the gui demo and the interactive tutorial to work using the supplied sample-configurations.xml and gui-demo-cache-config.xml and I am getting this error:

IllegalAnnotationsException: org.infinispan.loaders.CacheLoaderConfig is an interface, and JAXB can't handle interfaces.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? If I run the interactive tutorial without specifying the config.xml file everything works fine. And I have written other little demos that also work fine, as long as I do everything programmatically, without using a config.xml file.

But as soon as I try to use a config.xml file, or run the gui demo (which uses a config.xml file ...) I get this error.

Something tells me this is a JAXB problem. I have JWSDP 1.1, 1.6 and 2.0 all installed, but no JWSDP_HOME defined. Which version of JWSDP / JAXB should I be using?

Thanks,
Bob

[manik]

Are you on JDK 5 or 6?

[syg6]

I've got a whole bunch of JDKs installed by my JAVA_HOME currently points to 1.6.

Infinispan should work with both 1.5 and 1.6, no?

[manik]

yes, it's just that JDK6 comes with its own JAXB libs. Try removing the JAXB libs from your Infinispan classpath and try again, since JDK6 already provides this.

[syg6]

Just wanted to give you a little more info. I had both JWSDP 1.6 and 2.0 installed on my pc, and 1.6 was in my path.

I got rid of them as it seems they are ancient and furthermore JAXB comes bundled with JDK 1.6 anyway, so I imagine it's best to use the JDK version.

But the problem persists, I can't run the gui demo, interactive tutorial or any demo at all that tries to load an xml config file.

Thanks for any help,
Bob

[syg6]

yes, it's just that JDK6 comes with its own JAXB libs. Try removing the JAXB libs from your Infinispan classpath and try again, since JDK6 already provides this.

Hmmm ... I can see where when you launch the guiDemo it creates a 'my_classpath' that has a whole bunch of jars in it. But none of them seem to have anything to do with JAXB.

In order to run the interactive tutorial the instructions say to copy the following jars to <hom_dir>/.groovy/lib:

infinispan-core.jar
jboss-common-core-2.2.14.GA.jar
jboss-transaction-api-1.0.1.GA.jar
jcip-annotations-1.0.jar
jgroups-2.8.0.CR2.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar
marshalling-api-1.2.0.CR4.jar
river-1.2.0.CR4.jar

None of these have any JAXB references either.

And in my demo app I am using those same jars, nothing else.

So how is some alternate JAXB creeping into my classpath?

[syg6]

In the end it was (seemingly) a problem with my version of JDK 6. I had a rather ancient version installed, perhaps the first release (though not beta) and it just wasn't working.

So I downloaded and installed JDK 1.6 u16 and now the demo works.

FYI, for anyone else suffering with this problem.

Cheers,
Bob

[manik]

Thanks for letting us know the workaround; it is a really weird problem though, and no wonder I couldn't recreate it.

[girishadat]

Thanks Robert. I also faced this problem with JDK 1.6 update 2 and it is got solved when I tried with update 20.