Trouble getting off the ground with JBoss 5.1

Hi,

I'm just downloaded and installed JBoss 5.1.0.GA for Mac 10.5.6. "java -version" resolves to 1.5.0_16. When I start my server, I'm getting this error in my stdout file ...

16:10:28,543 INFO  [ProfileServiceBootstrap] Loading profile: ProfileKey@4d0cd5[domain=default, server=default, name=dev-jboss-web-5.1.0]
16:10:31,855 WARN  [ClassLoaderManager] Unexpected error during load of:org.jboss.resource.deployers.RARParserDeployer
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:675)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.access$200(BaseClassLoader.java:63)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:572)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:532)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:530)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:507)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseDelegateLoader.loadClass(BaseDelegateLoader.java:134)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.filter.FilteredDelegateLoader.loadClass(FilteredDelegateLoader.java:131)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoadingTask$ThreadTask.run(ClassLoadingTask.java:452)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.nextTask(ClassLoaderManager.java:251)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.process(ClassLoaderManager.java:150)        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:265)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:1119)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassFromDomain(BaseClassLoader.java:798)
        at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClass(BaseClassLoader.java:441)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
        at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.deployer.kernel.BeanMetaDataFactoryVisitor.addBeanComponent(BeanMetaDataFactoryVisitor.java:63)
        at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.deployer.kernel.BeanMetaDataFactoryVisitor.deploy(BeanMetaDataFactoryVisitor.java:126)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployerWithInput.deploy(AbstractRealDeployerWithInput.java:125)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployerWithInput.internalDeploy(AbstractRealDeployerWithInput.java:102)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractComponentDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractComponentDeployer.java:78)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:361)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.activateProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:306)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:271)
        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
        at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
        at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

Anyone know what this means and how to resolve it? Thanks, - Dave

JBoss AS comes in two variants - one compiled with JDK-1.5 and other with JDK-6. You probably downloaded the JDK-6 version and are using against 1.5. This won't work. You will either have to download the JBoss for JDK-1.5 variant or upgrade the JDK to 1.6.

When you say "using against 1.5", what do you mean? How do I use against 1.6, which I have installed? - Dave

Dave Alvarado wrote:When you say "using against 1.5", what do you mean?

I mean you are running it using JDK 1.5, as you mentioned:

"java -version" resolves to 1.5.0_16

Dave Alvarado wrote:
How do I use against 1.6, which I have installed? - Dave

You will have to set JAVA_HOME to point it to the location where you have installed JDK 1.6. For example, if you have installed it at /home/me/jdk-1.6 then set it as:

Ok, let me throw you a real curve ball. I have another application server (Resin) installed on my machine that currently relies on Java 1.5, so I want to keep JAVA_HOME where it is. Can I define "JAVA_HOME" in the jboss run.sh script, or is there a more stable way to define Java as 1.6 for the JBoss instance only?

- Dave

Dave Alvarado wrote:Can I define "JAVA_HOME" in the jboss run.sh script,

Yes, you can do that. Infact in some of my local instances, i keep doing that or keep passing the correct JAVA_HOME through the command prompt while launching the server.