[WICKET-3014] unable to launch StartExamples from IDEA (eventually other IDE's as well)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.10, 1.5-M1
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.11, 1.5-M2.1
• Component/s: wicket-examples
• Environment: OS X, java 6, IDEA
• Assignee: Igor Vaynberg
• Reporter: Peter Ertl
• Created: 26/Aug/10 15:01
• Updated: 17/Sep/10 14:49
• Resolved: 26/Aug/10 19:48

Description

When trying to run

org.apache.wicket.examples.StartExamples

as a Java application trough my IDE (using IntelliJ IDEA) the class loader complains that it can't find the jetty JARs.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/mortbay/jetty/HandlerContainer
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mortbay.jetty.HandlerContainer
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)

These JARs are using maven scope 'provided' which means the container has to provide the JARs. As you might expect IDEA has no jetty JARs in the classpath when running a class. An easy fix is to move StartExamples from src/main/java to src/test/java so the dependencies are found.

Patch for 1.4 and 1.5 will follow.