Re: What does this mean?

[Bryce Alcock]

Ok,
I got down to a root cause.  here you go:
   [java] Deployer location : 
C:\apache\incubator-geronimo/applications/jmxdebug/target/geronimo-jmxdebug.war

Therefore:
   return new File(".").toURI().resolve(location).toURL();
will cause an exception.
I am not sure how to solve this because apperently on unix, the location 
url is relative,
and on Windows it is absolute.  Or maybe because my ant exists in e: and 
my geronimo in c:
well anyway,  This is definately an issue that need to be fixed in the code.

I will try to look at it somemore tomorrow.   Any Ideas, that would make 
for an slick solution?

Here is the root cause code from
org/apache/geronimo/deployment/Deployer.java
(I added the System.out.println just before the suspect line 212)
   private static URL getURL(String location) throws 
MalformedURLException {
       File f = new File(location);
       if (f.exists() && f.canRead()) {
           return f.toURI().toURL();
       }
   System.out.println("Deployer location : " + location);
       return new File(".").toURI().resolve(location).toURL();
   }

The exact error is indicating that:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
     at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:838)
     at java.net.URI.resolve(URI.java:1024)
     at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.getURL(Deployer.java:212)
     at 
org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.parseArgs(Deployer.java:195)
     at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:69)
     at 
org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer$$FastClassByCGLIB$$734a235d.invoke(<gener