We have created a project using the Maven standalone jar archetype:
mvn archetype:generate sling-launchpad-standalone-archetype
When built and launched this results in the following error:
C:\Projects\Jackrabbit\standalone\target>java -jar standalone-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
16.04.2015 12:51:57.714 *INFO* [main] Setting sling.home=sling (default)
16.04.2015 12:51:57.716 *INFO* [main] Starting Sling in sling (C:\Projects\Jackr
abbit\standalone\target\sling)
16.04.2015 12:51:57.734 *INFO* [main] Checking launcher JAR in folder sling
16.04.2015 12:51:57.752 *INFO* [main] Installing new launcher: jar:file:/C:/Proj
ects/Jackrabbit/standalone/target/standalone-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/resources/org.apa
che.sling.launchpad.base.jar, 2.3.0 (org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.jar.1429203
117751)
16.04.2015 12:51:57.764 *INFO* [main] Loading launcher class org.apache.sling.la
unchpad.base.app.MainDelegate from org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.jar.142920311
7751
16.04.2015 12:51:57.782 *INFO* [main] Starting launcher ...
16.04.2015 12:51:57.787 *INFO* [main] HTTP server port: 8080
16.04.2015 12:51:57.845 *ERROR* [main] Failed to Start OSGi framework
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Uncaught Instantiation Issue: java.lang.Arra
yIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.Sling.<init>(Sling.java:245)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.app.MainDelegate$1.<init>(MainDelegat
e.java:159)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.app.MainDelegate.start(MainDelegate.j
ava:159)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.app.Main.startSling(Main.java:244)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.app.Main.<init>(Main.java:107)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.app.Main.main(Main.java:56)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
at java.util.ArrayList.elementData(ArrayList.java:371)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:384)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.getCurrentModule(BundleImpl.jav
a:1046)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.getSymbolicName(BundleImpl.java
:863)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.SlingFelix.getSymbolicName(Sling
Felix.java:32)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.toString(Felix.java:1012)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:128)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Logger._log(Logger.java:181)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Logger.log(Logger.java:114)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ExtensionManager.<init>(ExtensionManager.j
ava:201)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.<init>(Felix.java:374)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.SlingFelix.<init>(SlingFelix.jav
a:39)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.Sling.<init>(Sling.java:235)
... 5 more
16.04.2015 12:51:57.941 *ERROR* [main] There was a problem launching Sling
16.04.2015 12:51:57.945 *INFO* [Sling Terminator] Java VM is shutting down
I've traced it a bit and it seems to be a problem parsing the property
'org.osgi.framework.system.packages'. In sling/sling.properties I see:
org.osgi.framework.system.packages=${osgi-core-packages},
${osgi-compendium-services}, org.apache.sling.launchpad.api;version\=1.0.0,
${jre-${java.specification.version}}
${org.apache.sling.launcher.system.packages}
Any ideas what could be wrong?