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Bug 321804

Summary:	Jetty cannot be started in Eclipse if its installation path has a space in it
Product:	[RT] Jetty	Reporter:	Ben Arnold <ben.arnold.spam>
Component:	other	Assignee:	Michael Gorovoy <mgorovoy>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gregw, mgorovoy
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	7.1.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Ben Arnold

2010-08-04 19:37:14 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

The stack trace is...

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Files/jetty-6/1/25
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Files.jetty-6.1.25
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Exception in thread "main" 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unzip Jetty to C:\Program Files\jetty-6.1.25
2. In Eclipse's "Servers" view create a new Jetty 6 server, pointing to that Jetty directory.
3. Right-click on the server and choose "Start"

Eclipse pops up a dialogue box that says "Could not find the main class: Files/jetty-6.1.25. Program will exit"

Comment 1 Greg Wilkins

2010-08-05 07:35:44 EDT

How are you trying to start jetty?

Comment 2 Michael Gorovoy

2010-08-06 12:00:36 EDT

What version of the Eclipse IDE are you using? 

There are no Jetty classes in the exception stack trace that you have provided. Therefore the CNFE has happened while the Eclipse IDE was attempting to load Jetty's bootstrap classes. As a result this is likely to be an issue with the way Eclipse IDE launches servers on Windows platform. An obvious work-around is to use an installation path for Jetty that does not contain spaces.

-Michael