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August 27, 2014 at 12:10 pm #675

roald

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After installing either version 2.1.4 or the recent development version (without error messages), I get the following error screen after running either “CompendiumNG.bat” or “CompendiumNG-portable.bat”:
Java Virtual Machine Launcher
Could not find the main class:
com.compendium.ProjectCompendium. Program will exit

I have different Java versions installed, which is needed as our financial systems require the old Java versions
Installed Java versions:
Java Version 7 Update 67 (=most recent version)
Java(TM) 6 Update 31
Java(TM) 6 Update 31 (64-bit)

What I already tried:
Adding this line to the .BAT file:
PATH=c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64;%APPDATA%;%PATH%
did not do the trick.

Also changing this line
start /b javaw -Dlogback.configurationFile=”C:\Users\roagra\apps\CompendiumNG\logback.xml” -Dcompendiumng.config.dir=”%USERPROFILE%\compendiumng_config” -Ddir.data=”%USERPROFILE%\compendiumng_data” -Xmx512m -jar CompendiumNG.jar %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
to this
start /b “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe” -Dlogback.configurationFile=”C:\Users\roagra\apps\CompendiumNG\logback.xml” -Dcompendiumng.config.dir=”%USERPROFILE%\compendiumng_config” -Ddir.data=”%USERPROFILE%\compendiumng_data” -Xmx512m -jar CompendiumNG.jar %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
does not solve it.

August 27, 2014 at 12:48 pm #676

roald

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BTW: OS is Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1, 64 bits

September 7, 2014 at 8:06 am #689
maiklos

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I assume that your issue is the path to java runtime (java.exe and javaw.exe)

if you have path like this:

PATH=c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64;%APPDATA%;%PATH%

then java which is copied into c:\Windows\system32 will be always found first – which I assume is java 6. Compendium need java 7 – java 6 is officially EOL.

You can have only one java runtime on path (strictly speaking you can have as many as you want but only the first will be used).

I see 2 possibilities:
a) modify your financial system startup script so it uses java6
b) modify compendium script to use java 7 and let java 6 be the default.

choice a) is IMO better one since it is basically your financial system what is broken here (no offence – interestingly many banking or financial system made in java are strictly bound to some old unsupported version of java). However since I don’t know too much about your financial system I can’t give you exact instructions how to do it.

choice b)
1) identify where is your java7 javaw.exe located
2) modify compendium startup script to use absolute path to javaw.exe
disclaimer: it will probably bind your startup script to your particular system/configuration and as a result it will become effectively “unportable”
- This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by maiklos.
September 23, 2014 at 10:12 am #724

roald

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Is your second suggestion not what I had already tried, as described in my question?
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