Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Hi all developers reading this thread,

to speed up development/error tracking and help in solving the current jbidwatcher-issues,
I was trying to use Eclipse to compile jbidwatcher.

But there were dozens of “The import com.stevesoft.pat.Regex cannot be resolved” thrown at me.
I changed the class-folder several times in the project-properties/Libraries tab, but still no luck.

Any help would be appreciated, but maybe it’s better to do it by mail to

yesitshans at gmail.com

as not to fill this thread with developer questions.

Thanks,

Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Thanks husk, cyberpip, L Smith and all the others,

keep them success reports coming! My guess is the “Exception”-guys are running a really outdated Java engine?

Keep on jbidwatchin’ ! Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Solution for MAC ? (and other pre-1.6 Java versions?)

one of my machines was still running Java 1.5, to be exact it is
“java version “1.5.0_06”

So I rebuilt the .jar and it’s available here: http://tinyurl.com/2vpbrq

PLEASE: Can someone verify this, maybe even on a MAC, so other people know it works?
And add instrucions for MACians on how to use it?

Thanks, Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Hi Jaz,

you are right, in this case Java 1.6 was chosen just because “it’s there”. But things like that
always hapen with a solution that is called “a hack”.

The objective was to get a working solution ASAP, not to get a solution that works everywhere;
that will be done in an official release version.

A little hint from my side to you and all the people that would like to have this quick
fix working on there special environment:

- download a Java JDK version for your operation system from java.sun.com, it’s as complicated as downloading the runtime-Java ;-)

- download the source code of the wonderful jbidwatcher, unpack it

- apply the patch I offered

- recompile the .jar file. This is done as easy as saying “make jar” on the command line

- share your success story on http://forum.jbidwatcher.com/

- you may even offer your .jar file online so other people can benefit from your work

What’ya think? Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Hi Morgan,

thanks for your quick action on this topic. It’s a major work to get a new version out that satisfies everybody on every OS.
The solution I offered earlier was just to keep things up and running for some people (including me ;-) )

I’ll add two more posts here in reply to others that might help more people in using my temporary hack version.

Anyway I would like to thank you, Morgan, for your excellent work! I love to use jbidwatcher and I’m happy if I can be
of any help in this situation.

BR Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Hi mikethebike and all,

although I did do some downloading before, I’m confused of all the different JAVA, JRM, J2EE and you know what versions they offer there as well.
So here’s a (hopefully) simple recipe to get you your latest Java version:

go to java.sun.com

click on “Downloads” at the top

select the “Java SE” branch (click on the ”+”)

choose “Java SE (JDK) 6 Download”

in the upcoming list, scroll down to “Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 2”
and click on the Download button

choose your operating system in the list, there’s Linux, Solaris and Windows to choose from
don’t forget to select the “Accept” radio-button at the top

—> I’m not a Mac guy, can someone please add info for the Apple-people?

Download the binary/exe, then install it

now you should be able to run the “hacked” .jar just by clicking on it in your file-browser.

HTH, Hans

Topic: Announcements / JBidwatcher 1.0.1 is not currently working.

just a hint: you might want to take a look at the topic “Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07) last” in the “JBidwatcher Help” forum. There’s a quick fix available until the next official version is out.

bye, Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

ok everybody, here’s the one really important step you have to do if you want to run the “hacked” .jar:

you have to download the latest JAVA from java.sun.com

if you don’t download the latest java, you will run into errors, no matter what operating system!

go to java.sun.com and download Java™ SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 2

Good luck, Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

For the source-code/patch guys: I’ve udated the patch file to be a context-diff, patch will like it more now. Just do a patch -p0 < jbidwatcher-1.0.1.1.patch
It works here, so give it a try.

For the .jdk people: Unlike most other times I used a quite new java version, it says java version “1.6.0_02”
here.
Please go to java.sun.com and download the latest version for your favorite OS.
Maybe someone else wants to post other java version .jdks here?

..Hans

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

one more thing: I’ve tested the .jar on Linux only, no idea if it works on Mac and the other operating system as well ;-)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

Hi again,

the quick hack earlier today was just a fix for the smaller problem. The bigger problem of adding new auctions needed some more work. Reason: ebay changed the title of the auctions from “ebay.*: (item) (No.) (end-date)” to just “(item)”. The information for the end-date was read from the title-info until today.
Again I’ve made some source-code changes to jbidwatcher, the end-date is read from the HTML now. I sent a mail to Morgan so he can include them into a new
version.
Until the new version is out, you can get the patch file agains 1.0.1 from http://tinyurl.com/35u3kt
Note: You need to download the sourcecode and compile jbidwatcher for yourself to use the patch file.

For people without a compiler, the new hack-jar file can be found at http://tinyurl.com/3dvkf8.

AGAIN, please note this is a quick fix, not a fully tested version. You can add auctions now, bidding works, sniping should work. If you say “update auction” on red-eye auctions, the red-eye should be gone.

Please give it a try and report problems here. Thanks.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07)

HACK, not a solution:

ebay stopped using the word “ebay” in the title of auctions. This broke some title-check-code
inside jbidwatcher. A quick workaround for this is to eliminate the title check, sniping will work
without it as well. (I have to figure out why we need this check in jbidwatcher at all)

To do so, just change the “return false” at the end of checkTitle() in file ebayServer.java to say
“return true” (around line No. 1930)

Please note again: This is just a hack to save your snipes today, until 1.0.2 (or somthing) is out.
You will not be able to add new auctions, there are more changes needed for that.