Apple

At this point I've actually bumbled my way to getting the Wonder Example projects to build and run within Eclipse, as well as created my own Hello World project, so now I'm on to deployment.

For the deployment effort I've been following:

http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WEB/Your+First+Deployment

This noted that I needed to build and install frameworks first. Since I’m using wonder, I went to:

http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Building+and+Installing+a+Framework+with+Ant

I first tried to do an 'ant build' command in the WonderSource directory as it was after cloning it from the git repository, but got the exception shown at the bottom of this email.

Then I noted the following passage:

When building a Framework project, Ant needs to be able to find WebObjects. WebObjects itself is a set of Frameworks just like the one you are building. They can be installed anywhere using these instructions.
Where Ant will look for WebObjects is specified by the wo.system.frameworks build property. This property can be set in a number of locations, or even passed as a command-line property to Ant.
Where Ant looks for this property is different for each method of building a Framework:

4. Command Line
a. Properties specified in the Ant command: -D<property>=<value>

b. A properties file specified in the Ant command: -propertyfile <name>

c. The build.properties file in the same directory as the build.xml file as specified by <property file="build.properties" /> task in the build.xml file.

So, since I was shooting for option 4.c, I created a build.properties file in the WonderSource main folder and added the following line to mimic what WOLips used in its properties file:

wo.system.frameworks=C\:\\Apple\\System\\Library\\Frameworks

and then I added the following line just under the <project> element in the existing build.xml file:

<property file="build.properties" />

Doing another 'ant build' command resulted in the same exception which is shown below, all of which leaves me stuck and hoping I can get a nudge in the right direction. I've got all the notes about how I got to where I am. If that helps I'll gladly dump all or part of it in a separate message.

------ Output from 'ant build' command -----------------------------------

Buildfile: C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\build.xml

frameworks:

frameworks.all:

patch.frameworks.54:

ERJars.all:

global.environment:

global.properties:

global.prepare:

global.compile:

global.dummy:

BUILD FAILED

C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\build.xml:13: The following error occur

red while executing this line:

C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\Build\build\build.xml:1428: The followi

ng error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\Build\build\build.xml:1419: The followi

ng error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\Build\build\build.xml:58: The following

error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\si454a\GIT Folders\WonderSource\Build\build\generic.xml:270: java.lang.

NullPointerException

at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:542)

at java.util.Properties.setProperty(Properties.java:161)

at org.objectstyle.woenvironment.env.WOVariables.createDefaultProperties

(Unknown Source)

at org.objectstyle.woenvironment.env.WOVariables.init(Unknown Source)

at org.objectstyle.woenvironment.env.WOVariables.<init>(Unknown Source)

at org.objectstyle.woenvironment.env.WOEnvironment.<init>(Unknown Source

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