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I am currently having huge issues installing HermesJMS (1.14 or 1.15) on OSX 10.9.2

Downloading the dmg file from their site fails with an error saying the .app file is damaged

So I download the jar file, with the installation being successful.

I downloaded the jar files from here: 1.14 1.15

I then switch to the terminal and run the hermes.sh in the bin directory and I get the following error

~$ ./hermes.sh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at com.jidesoft.swing.SplashScreen.create(Unknown Source)
    at hermes.browser.HermesBrowser.main(HermesBrowser.java:224)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.HashMap cannot be cast to     java.awt.RenderingHints
    at com.jidesoft.swing.JideSwingUtilities.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    ... 2 more

Here are my java versions:

~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_55-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.55-b03, mixed mode)

Does anyone have a clue as to why this is so?

I am basically wanting to use it to view a ActiveMQ topic

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Andrew Kew
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  • No clue on the Hermes issues (same on my machine). However, you cannot "view" a topic. There is nothing to view, you can just subscribe from it and have a copy of each message passing through. I wrote a small command line utility for ActiveMQ that you can subscribe to topics with - https://github.com/northlander/a. You can also give ActiveMQ Browser a try if you want something graphical. http://sourceforge.net/projects/activemqbrowser/ – Petter Nordlander Aug 12 '14 at 06:29
  • Thanks Petter will give them both a go. Yup I realise I can't view a topic, but with HermesJMS you can subscribe to the topics and view the JMS messages sent to it, which is all I am after. Let me take a look at your command line utility, thanks for the help. – Andrew Kew Aug 12 '14 at 07:21
  • Hey Petter, tried installing your cmd utility, a, and get the following errors when trying to install it with maven OSTML0205036:a ank25$ mvn install ... Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/activemq/activemq-all/5.6.0/activemq-all-5.6.0.pom http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/activemq/activemq-all/5.6.0/activemq-all-5.6.0.pom (4 KB at 15.1 KB/sec) ... [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [ERROR] /opt/a/src/main/java/com/libzter/a/A.java:[28,29] error: package org.apache.commons.cli does not exist ... [INFO] 24 errors [INFO] BUILD FAILURE – Andrew Kew Aug 12 '14 at 07:27
  • Can't see your error. There is a prepacked release that can be started with java -jar a-..jar This is perhaps not the correct forum to handle that trouble shooting though. – Petter Nordlander Aug 12 '14 at 07:31
  • Thats fine thanks, probably a problem with my maven repo as I have been build other projects too which depend on internal artefact repos, activemq included. I will try get it to pull the jars locally and see if that works. thanks – Andrew Kew Aug 12 '14 at 07:45

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The problem has to do with Java not enabling web plug-in and Web Start features. I ran into this problem with Java versions 7 & 8 (jdk1.7.0_21.jdk, jdk1.8.0.jdk).

Java 6 is required.

Getting Java 6

fyi - Installation locations

These are typical install locations for Java for OSX:

  • Apple-installed Java for Mac OS X install location: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
  • Oracle Java install location: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home

Running HermesJMS with Java 6

To use Java 6 for the life of your terminal window: 

~$ export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

then run

~$ ./hermes.sh
user2317901
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  • ~$ JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home ./hermes.sh I need other things to run on other types of Javas – Totoro Jan 18 '16 at 18:27
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If your goal is to "monitor" a JMS Topic within ActiveMQ, you can use JMSToolBox on sourceforge
You only need a JRE 8 on the path

titou10
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The first answer did work for me.

The JAVA_HOME variable issue could be fixed by using jenv utility.

  • download Java 1.6 as mentioned above;
  • install jenv;
  • add Java 1.6 to the list of versions managed by jenv:

jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/

  • Add the following lines to hgermesjms.sh file, # Setup the Java VM section:

jenv local 1.6

export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/.jenv/versions/jenv version-name"

jenv version-name should be quoted by backticks (`), Markdown stole them.

  • That is how it worked for me. The fix is displayed in more details in this answer.
Oleksii Tymofieiev
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  • I put the information from different sources into one place so that a person who is searching for an answer gets everything in one place and does not have to search more like I had to. Sorry that you do not understand this. – Oleksii Tymofieiev Jan 10 '17 at 20:23