ActiveMQ standalone sever does not start in Windows

• Key: AMQ-953
• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Hiram Chirino
• Reporter: Hiram Chirino
• Component/s: Broker
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.2
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.2

Description

When you use the activemq.bat file in the bin directory of the 4.0.2 distribution you get one of the following errors:

C:\incubator-activemq-4.0.2\bin>activemq
ACTIVEMQ_HOME: .
Failed to execute main task. Reason: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.activemq.console.command.ShellCommand

and

ACTIVEMQ_HOME: .
Loading message broker from: xbean:activemq.xml
ERROR: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to execute start task. Reason: org.springframework.beans.factory.Bea
nDefinitionStoreException: Error registering bean with name 'org.apache.activemq.xbean.XBeanBrokerService' def
ined in class path resource [activemq.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'activemq.home'
ERROR: java.lang.Exception: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error registering
bean with name 'org.apache.activemq.xbean.XBeanBrokerService' defined in class path resource [activemq.xml]: C
ould not resolve placeholder 'activemq.home'

Comments

[Hiram Chirino]

Fixed in 4.0 branch Committed revision 452107
Fixed in trunk revision 452108

[Hiram Chirino]

As a simple workaround, users can either:

1. Replace thier activemq.bat with this one: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/activemq/branches/activemq-4.0/assembly/src/release/bin/activemq.bat
2. Run this before you execute the existing activemq.bat:

   set ACTIVEMQ_CLASSPATH=""