Hello.

I'm trying to programatically start and stop JBoss server, but I'm having some problems. Actualy, my code to start/stop is as follows:

import org.jboss.*;

...

private void startJBoss() {
 try {
 String str[]={};
 Class c = Class.forName("org.jboss.Main");
 Main ob = (Main)c.newInstance();
 ob.main(str);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
}

private void stopJBoss() {
 try {
 String str[]={"-S"};
 Class c = Class.forName("org.jboss.Shutdown");
 Shutdown ob = (Shutdown)c.newInstance();
 ob.main(str);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
}

In the classpath I have added the run.jar and shutdown.jar from the bin directory of JBoss. Now the problem comes when I start JBoss where I receive the following exceptions:

[Server] Starting General Purpose Architecture (GPA)...Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/Element
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.mx.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBeanInstantiator.instantiate(RequiredModelMBeanInstantiator.java:37)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.<init>(MBeanServerImpl.java:205)
 at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerBuilderImpl.newMBeanServer(MBeanServerBuilderImpl.java:56)
 at javax.management.MBeanServerFactory.newMBeanServer(Unknown Source)
 at javax.management.MBeanServerFactory.createMBeanServer(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:349)
 at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:310)
 at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:195)
 at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:463)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

If I remove the shutdown.jar from the classpath, I can start JBoss without problems, but then, I don't have any option to stop it.

Any other way to start/stop JBoss programatically.

Thanks,
Miguel