Thanks Matt,

I figured I'd give this OpenJDK workaround a try first and lo and behold it
worked for me:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4712#c14

Don't know why, but happy to be able to return to blissful ignorance.

-Jason




On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Jason Blum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lots of variations on solutions - the consensus seems to be that you have
> to
> > workaround by installing OpenJDK.
> >
> > But since I have zero confidence with stuff like this, figured I'd ask
> > others whether they've run into this and whether they've resolved it?
>
> Well bear in mind (if this helps the confidence factor) that
> "installing" Java is really just putting files on your machine and
> then you basically set a default for the machine (JAVA_HOME
> environment variable on Linux and Windows, and I think Mac does this
> via symlinks from some Default directory to the version of Java you
> want to use IIRC). On Linux I just throw every new Java update under
> /opt/java and change JAVA_HOME, and I can still point specific apps to
> specific JVMs if necessary.
>
> So don't worry that you're going to screw something up by grabbing
> another version of Java, particularly if you're only pointing
> jetty/gae to it. Java's just files on disk.
>
> Can you not just repoint the Mac "default" symlink directory or
> however they do that back to the previous version of Java?
>
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