It seems that GShell is currently unable to run without the sun.* packages in the classloader. The reason is that it uses xstream advanced mode which make use of these packages. If these packages are not on the classpath, xstream will default to the pure java reflection provider which will cause exceptions like the following:
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: Cannot construct org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.model.CommandNode as it does not have a no-args constructor ---- Debugging information ---- message : Cannot construct org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.model.CommandNode as it does not have a no-args constructor cause-exception : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException cause-message : Cannot construct org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.model.CommandNode as it does not have a no-args constructor class : org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.model.Layout required-type : org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.model.CommandNode path : /layout/nodes/command ------------------------------- I'm not sure if this is a good idea or if we should support that pure java mode... -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
