After doing some googleing, I found a post with a similar problem. Apparently, the IBM JRE creates a folder in /tmp called .com_ibm_tools_attach. This folder was created after I installed the JRE and ran "java -version" to test the installed version. Apparently, the permissions on the folder were root as I ran "java -version" as root.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 2 10:45 .com_ibm_tools_attach I have now removed the folder and it has been recreated with permissions associated with the user running the application (i.e. me)... drwxrwxrwt 2 me me 4096 Feb 3 11:00 .com_ibm_tools_attach Unfortunately, now I am receiving a different error... Exception in thread "Attachment 60134" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: cannot get the capability, performing dispose of the retransforming environment at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.loadAgentLibraryImpl(Native Method) at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.loadAgentLibrary(Attachment.java:243) at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.parseLoadAgent(Attachment.java:221) at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.doCommand(Attachment.java:140) at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.run(Attachment.java:101) 430 HSQLDBTest INFO [main] openjpa.Runtime - OpenJPA dynamically loaded the class enhancer. Any classes that were not enhanced at build time will be enhanced when they are loaded by the JVM. 489 HSQLDBTest INFO [main] openjpa.Runtime - Starting OpenJPA 2.0.1 599 HSQLDBTest INFO [main] openjpa.jdbc.JDBC - Using dictionary class "org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.HSQLDictionary". I also attempted to supply the "-Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no" argument to the IBM JRE and received the same exception described in the first post. Argh... -- View this message in context: http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/Error-com-ibm-tools-attach-AttachNotSupportedException-tp5989284p5989379.html Sent from the OpenJPA Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.