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?