[Gvsig_english] gvSIG and Java on Mac OS X

Henning Lorenz henning.lorenz at geo.uu.se
Thu Oct 16 16:00:08 CEST 2008 

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Henning

On 2008-10-16, at 15:25 , Benjamin Ducke wrote:

> Hi Agustin,
>
> thanks for those pointers. I will try linking to my JRE as you
> suggested, just to make sure that everything runs OK.
>
> But for a "proper" solution, I would like to avoid anything
> that touches system files, so the installation can be completely
> self-contained and won't require root access.
>
> Awesome that you got gvSIG running on PowerPCs, too.
> I will have to take a look at that. For now, the Intel version
> is giving me enough gray hair ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:
>> Ben,
>> You can force Mac yo use a particular version of Java.
>> All versions reside at
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
>> and there a link point CurrentJDK to the version of your choice.
>> So you only need to point CurrentJDK to your 1.6 JRE.
>> But anyhow if you're in PPC machine you need to take out the crs  
>> folder (this is true after the 913 build including 12xx). I've  
>> prepared a Mac version with sextante and gvSIG mobile for PPC  
>> machines [1].
>> Agustin
>> [1] http://gvsigmac.blogspot.com/2008/08/gvsig-112-running-on-mac-ppcs.html
>> El Oct 16, 2008, a las 2:47 PM, Benjamin Ducke escribió:
>>> Dear developers/list,
>>>
>>> I am currently trying to understand how Java works on Mac OS X.
>>> Since Apple decides what Java gets installed on any version of
>>> Mac OS X, not the user, I would like to be able and bundle my own
>>> 1.6 JRE with gvSIG, so that I can deploy an identical version on
>>> any Mac.
>>>
>>> As a JRE, I am using the Soylatte FreeBSD port and that seems to run
>>> fine, but gvSIG always picks up the system's outdated Java 1.5 (I am
>>> running on Mac OS 10.4 with no intentions whatsoever to update
>>> to 10.5).
>>>
>>> Now, I have tried to recreate the whole Java startup procedure using
>>> a shell script, which I modeled after the one for Linux:
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> # gvSIG.sh: startup script for gvSIG on Mac OS X
>>> PATH_TO_GVSIG="/Users/bartsimpson/Desktop/gvSIG1.1.2.app"
>>> PATH_TO_RES="$PATH_TO_GVSIG/Contents/Resources/gvSIG/gvSIG 1.1.2  
>>> build 1045.app/Contents/Resources"
>>>
>>> export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PATH_TO_RES/NativeLibs"
>>> export PROJ_LIB="$PATH_TO_RES/Java/gvSIG/extensiones/org.gvsig.crs/ 
>>> data"
>>>
>>> cd "$PATH_TO_RES/Java"
>>>
>>> # Setup Java environment and run gvSIG
>>>
>>> # Java tuning settings
>>> MAX_HEAP=512
>>> INI_HEAP=512
>>>
>>> JAVA_VM="/Users/bartsimpson/Desktop/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/bin/java"
>>>
>>> $JAVA_VM -Djava.library.path="../NativeLibs" -cp andami.jar:./lib/ 
>>> gvsig-i18n.jar:./lib/beans.jar:./lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:./lib/iver- 
>>> utiles.jar:./lib/castor-0.9.5.3-xml.jar:./lib/crimson.jar:./lib/ 
>>> xerces_2_5_0.jar:./lib/javaws.jar:./lib/xml-apis.jar:./lib/ 
>>> looks-2.0.2.jar:./lib/JWizardComponent.jar:./lib/kxml2.jar:./lib/ 
>>> jcalendar.jar:./lib/jh.jar -Xms${INI_HEAP}M -Xmx${MAX_HEAP}M  
>>> com.iver.andami.Launcher gvSIG gvSIG/extensiones "$@"
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> This goes almost all the way to starting gvSIG, but eventually  
>>> fails:
>>>
>>> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>>>       at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:997)
>>>       at  
>>> javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(SwingUtilities.java:1323)
>>>       at com.iver.andami.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)
>>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize  
>>> class com.iver.cit.gvsig.fmap.crs.CRSFactory
>>>       at com.iver.cit.gvsig.project.Project.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
>>>       at  
>>> com.iver.cit.gvsig.project.ProjectFactory.createProject(Unknown  
>>> Source)
>>>       at  
>>> com.iver.cit.gvsig.ProjectExtension.loadInitialProject(Unknown  
>>> Source)
>>>       at  
>>> com.iver.cit.gvsig.ProjectExtension.postInitialize(Unknown Source)
>>>       at com.iver.andami.Launcher.postInitializeExtensions(Unknown  
>>> Source)
>>>       at com.iver.andami.Launcher.access$600(Unknown Source)
>>>       at com.iver.andami.Launcher$4.run(Unknown Source)
>>>       at  
>>> java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199)
>>>       at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
>>>       at com.iver.andami.ui.AndamiEventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown  
>>> Source)
>>>       at  
>>> java 
>>> .awt 
>>> .EventDispatchThread 
>>> .pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
>>>       at  
>>> java 
>>> .awt 
>>> .EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java: 
>>> 183)
>>>       at  
>>> java 
>>> .awt 
>>> .EventDispatchThread 
>>> .pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
>>>       at  
>>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java: 
>>> 168)
>>>       at  
>>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java: 
>>> 160)
>>>       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java: 
>>> 121)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone on this list make sense of that error message?
>>> Is the problem with the CRS library? Did I forget to include
>>> something into the Java classpath or the system's linker path?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Benjamin Ducke
>>> Senior Applications Support and Development Officer
>>>
>>> Oxford Archaeology Ltd
>>> Janus House
>>> Osney Mead
>>> OX2 0ES
>>> Oxford, U.K.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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> Benjamin Ducke
> Senior Applications Support and Development Officer
>
> Oxford Archaeology Ltd
> Janus House
> Osney Mead
> OX2 0ES
> Oxford, U.K.
>
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 263 800 (switchboard)
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 980 758 (direct)
> Fax :+44 (0)1865 793 496
> benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk
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