Forge 2.16.1.Final fails to start in windows 7 command mode

[gerry.matte]

Today I downloaded the ZIP version of Forge 2.16.1.Final

I extracted the ZIP file into folder c:\s\jboss-forge-2.16.1.Final and updated my windows environment variable FORGE_HOME to be that folder

My PATH environment variable automatically uses FORGE_HOME\bin

when I opened a command window and executed forge.bat I saw the normal opening text from forge then on a new line I saw the spinning / and \ characters

After two minutes, I realised that forge was not going to start up so I forced a cancellation of forge.bat using Ctrl+C

Has anyone else managed to successfully run this version in a DOS window ?

My commands are below:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Gerry\Documents\$develop\$code>set FORGE_HOME

FORGE_HOME=C:\s\jboss-forge-2.16.1.Final

C:\Users\Gerry\Documents\$develop\$code>forge

Using Forge at C:\s\jboss-forge-2.16.1.Final

    _____

   |  ___|__  _ __ __ _  ___

   | |_ / _ \| `__/ _` |/ _ \  \\

   |  _| (_) | | | (_| |  __/  //

   |_|  \___/|_|  \__, |\___|

                   |__/

JBoss Forge, version [ 2.16.1.Final ] - JBoss, by Red Hat, Inc. [ http://forge.jboss.org ]

-Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y

C:\Users\Gerry\Documents\$develop\$code>

[gerry.matte]

It appears that this version of forge requires Java 8.

On my secondary development machine running that java version, forge starts ok.

If this dependency is intentional, it might be a good idea to update the documentation at Documentation | JBoss Forge to indicate that jdk8+ is required.

[gastaldi]

Hi Gerry,

That's weird. It seems to be a memory setting issue. Forge runs on JDK 7 minimum, although we recommend JDK 8 as JDK 7 is EOL'ed and has a better memory management architecture.

I'll update the docs to recommend JDK 8.

Thanks!

[gerry.matte]

Today I downloaded Forge 2.17.0-Final and observed the same behavior.

The only change I made recently is to install update 51 of java 8.

Forge-2.16.2-Final also would not start.

When i deleted the .forge folder within my windows user directory both forge versions worked immediately.

Apparently something within my .forge profile was preventing forge from starting.

I'm posting this in case anyone else encounters the problem.  If anyone knows of a downside to this solution, please post your comments.