With recent updates of Cocoon 2.1-dev from CVS I haven't been able to get the embedded Jetty to start up (Windows ME, j2sdk1.4.0). Turning echo on I discovered 2 endless loops in cocoon.bat. Initially there were duplicate gotPort and gotWebapp labels; I changed the duplicate names.
I then received an error of: "The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect." Checking out the file again I was confused by the following code to set EXEC:
if not "%EXEC%" == "" goto gotExec set EXEC=start "Cocoon" /D. /MAX :gotExec
ah, right, the above works with 'cmd.exe' (NT/2k/XP) not with 'command.com' (95/98/ME)
I have no idea what this is supposed to do but it just didn't look right.
this means
start -> start a window /D. -> with directory '.' /MAX -> maximize the window
but this only works on NT/2k/XP, I forgot to add a check for that.
Forward slashes in a .bat file?
Oh, yes. almost all DOS commands used forward slashes as command line parameters.
So I deleted the code and references to %EXEC in doServlet, doServletAdmin, and doDebug and everything seemed to work fine. Any clues for me?
I've included my first Cocoon patch, generated with Eclipse. I didn't submit to Bugzilla--let me know if I should--but I wanted feedback on the EXEC issue before I went that far.
I just patched it but I won't be able to test it now that I don't have a win95/98/ME machine to test it on. So tell me if it worked.
Stefano.
