Hi! It is not possible to start xxe via a symlink. This is a bit annoying, as every scheme to install software by hand in a somewhat ordered way involves something like symlinks from /usr/local/bin/xxe to /usr/local/stow/xxe/bin/xxe or similar.
The reason for the problem is that the ../bin/xxe start script tries to determine its own loction in order to find the jars and such, but it doesn't account for symlinks. So there's a quite simple fix: In .../bin/xxe find the line that reads dist=`dirname $0` and replace it by something like dist=`readlink -e $0` dist=`dirname $dist` That's all, it seems to works well for me. But maybe you should check the availability of readlink -e before you incorporate the fix into your distribution. S.M.
