-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Sisson wrote, On 1/7/2006 10:46 PM: > FYI.. We need to be careful of resulting file path lengths on Windows > when creating web applications that may result in long file paths in > Geronimo due to a JDK 1.4 bug ( > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6182812) that has > only been fixed in JDK 1.5_06. > > Fom reading the bug and related bugs' descriptions it appears the > Windows JDK will only allow file names less than 260 bytes, otherwise a > FileNotFoundException is thrown. > > I initially ran into this JDK bug whilst building geronimo under a long > directory name (see GERONIMO-1428 for details). > > On a related note (not due to the JDK bug) I found that if I installed > geronimo from a zip distribution using WinZip (version 10.0 6685) into a > long directory path, WinZip also has problems: > > Error: The system cannot find the path specified. > Cannot create > C:\test\this\is\a\really\long\install\directory\name\to\demonstrate\jdk\bug\6182812\geronimo-1.0-SNAPSHOT\config-store\28\geronimo-console-standard-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war\WEB-INF\classes\org\apache\geronimo\console\jmsmanager\JMSConnectionFactoryManagerPortlet.class > > > Regards, > > John
We can mitigate this problem by mapping the unpacked war name to something smaller, i.e. war_001. WDYT? Regards, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDwUDD1xC6qnMLUpYRArvsAJ0WCeI4ndmqyx4B84Uo1yWiWp1gdgCeKC+Z 831EwbUu/DomYsoNd4NLoY8= =9MNW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
