Installing Forte under win XP

After some more investigation and reading the Troubleshooting section of the Getting Started Manual I attempted the following:

From the Manual:

"The Sun ONE Studio 4 IDE installer exits

without installing the product. No messages

are displayed.

Here are the possible causes and solutions:

The file you have downloaded from the Sun ONE Studio 4 product download page is not complete. Download the file

again, and check that the size of the downloaded file is the

same as the file size specified on the product download page.

Run the IDE installer again.

You have specified an invalid command-line parameter in the

installer.sp file. Check the file and correct any incorrect

command-line parameter setting. Run the IDE installer again.

Run the installer launcher (<installer>.exe file or

<installer>.bin file) with the option <installer>.exe/bin -

is:log log.txt. Check log.txt for possible errors

I attempted:

ffj_ce_win32.en.exe -is:log log.txt

In the resulting log.txt file the following errors were outputted:

Found matching JVM at C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1

Matching JVM home is C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1

Matching JVM file is c:\DOCUME~1\mjd\LOCALS~1\Temp\LRE2F.tmp

Executing launch script command: "C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1/bin\java.exe" -cp "c:\DOCUME~1\mjd\LOCALS~1\Temp\LRE30.tmp\ffj_ce_en.jar" -Dtemp.dir="c:\DOCUME~1\mjd\LOCALS~1\Temp" -Dis.jvm.home="C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1" -Dis.jvm.temp="0" -Dis.media.home="c:\DOCUME~1\mjd\LOCALS~1\Temp\LRE30.tmp\ffj_ce_en.jar" -Dis.launcher.file="d:\devResources\Java\SunFortePackage\ffj_ce_win32_en.exe" -Dis.jvm.file="c:\DOCUME~1\mjd\LOCALS~1\Temp\LRE2F.tmp" -Dis.external.home="d:\devResources\Java\SunFortePackage" -Djh=C:/Java/j2sdk1.4.1 -Xms20m -Xmx60m run in working directory d:\devResources\Java\SunFortePackage

Output from the launch script execution

StdOut:

ErrOut:

The wizard cannot continue because of the following error: could not load wizard specified in /wizard.inf (104)

I--

I researched the Manual again and saw the following option:

Issue:

The -is:tempdir command-line parameter

is not working.

Ensure that you are using the correct syntax for the commandline

parameter for the installer. For example, in a Solaris

environment, the syntax is as follows:

ffj_ce_solsparc_en.bin -is:tempdir temporary-directory

I attempted:

ffj_ce_win32.en.exe -is:tempdir ffjTemp

Results: a file LRE43.tmp is quickly created but when the Wizard step fails it is flushed. So I copied/pasted it quickly to the desktop and here are its contents. Hope this helps:

DESC: Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4.X by Sun Microsystems

JVM_EXE: bin\java.exe

CLASSPATH: "-cp "

CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR: ;

SYSTEM: -D

SYSTEM_SEPARATOR: =

JVM_PROPERTIES:

java.vendor=Sun Microsystems...

java.version=1.4...

/:

PLATFORM_HINT: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.4\JavaHome

PATH_HINT: \j2sdk1.4.0

VERBOSE: -verbose

VERBOSE_GC: -verbose:gc

VERBOSE_CLASS: -verbose:class

VERBOSE_JNI: -verbose:jni

VERSION: -version

BOOT_CLASSPATH: -Xbootclasspath:

NO_CLASS_GC: -Xnoclassgc

INIT_JAVA_HEAP: -Xms

MAX_JAVA_HEAP: -Xmx

REDUCE_OS_SIGNALS: -Xrs

CHECK_JNI: -Xcheck:jni

RUNHPROF_HELP: -Xrunhprof:help

RUNHPROF_OPTION: -Xrunhprof

DEBUG: -Xdebug

FUTURE: -Xfuture

SEARCH_ALL: 0

JVM_HOME: C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1

JVM_FILE: ./ffjTemp\LRE43.tmp

JVM_TEMP: 0

I'm about to just download the entire package and reinstall the VM and Tomcat, etc..

Marc Driftmeyer at 2007-7-1 14:26:17 >

I do not know why, but this installation does not work with the latest j2sdk1.4.1_02 on Windows 2000.

To get around this I did the following:

1) I installed an older jdk1.3.1_07 I had.

2) I ran the installation as follows:

ffj_ce_win32.exe -is:javahome C:\jdk1.3.1_07

3) During the installation, it did detect my j2sdk1.4.1_02 and the jdk1.3.1_07 and gave me the option to choose which to use with the IDE at runtime. I selected the j2sdk1.4.1_02 and the IDE did come up functioning using this newer JDK, which is what I wanted.

Hope this helps,

Gary

moore.g@charter.net at 2007-7-1 14:26:17 >