Classes in the starter kit are compiled with jdk 1.5, in particular I was getting an error when running 1.4.2_09:
6:13:52,334 ERROR [MainDeployer] could not create deployment: file:/home/shea/tmp/jbpm-test/jbpm-starters-kit-3.0.1/jbpm-server/server/jbpm/deploy/jbpm.sar/
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Unexpected error during load of: org.jbpm.db.jmx.JbpmService, msg=org/jbpm/db/jmx/JbpmService (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0); - nested throwable: (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unexpected error during load of: org.jbpm.db.jmx.JbpmService, msg=org/jbpm/db/jmx/JbpmService (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0))
After switching to the 1.5 jdk, it started up just fine. We'll see if everything works :)
Gary
You are right. This was a glitch since it should have been compiled with 1.4/1.5 but generating 1.4 compliant code.
(btw, this has been mentioned several times before in this forum ;-) )