I’ve been trying to get JBidWatch-0.4.jar to work
with Java 1.2 and now 1.3 on SPARC Solaris – currently Solaris 8. What I get is this:

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JBidWatch-0/4/jar

Is there supposed to be something else that I have to do to get it to run?

Greetings,

Yes, it’s definitely supposed to work cross-platform. However, in order to run .jar files you have to use the command:
/bin/java -jar JBidWatch-0.4.jar

Give that a try, and see if that makes it work for you. PLEASE drop me a line if it does or doesn’t, I’d LOVE to know if it works on a platform I’ve not had the opportunity to test on!

— Cyberfox

When I use /bin/java -jar ./JBidWatch-0.4.jar I
get a grey box with no buttons and a title bar that says Configuration manager.

Any ideas on how to get anything more than that?

Again, the platform is:

SPARC Ultra 5 Solaris 8, with /bin/java -version saying
java version “1.2.1”
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04c, native threads, sunwjit)

Greetings,

Oooh. That’s bad. Yeah, the first thing it’s supposed to do (after the splash screen) is put up a configuration screen with a couple of tabs, and spaces to put things like your eBay username in. If that’s not even displaying… Erf.

If you have the time, try it with Java 1.3?

I presume there aren’t any errors spit out, or anything, just a grey box?

— Cyberfox

No errors, warnings, etc.

Now things get interesting! I tried with java 1.3
(remember, I’m on SPARC Solaris 8, under CDE …).
This time, I see the grey box, with a white ‘bar’ across it with the word disabled inside.

So I start up snapshot to take a picture of what I am seeing. It pops up several boxes during this
process – one of which ends up overtop of jbidwatcher’s empty box. After I do the save,
I notice some text in the jbidwatcher box ! So
I move my mouse into the box and notice that text is appearing and disappearing there. I see 4 click boxes, so I click on a couple of these.
All of a sudden I see the following output going to stdout:

Asking for: proxy.host, returning: null
Asking for: proxy.port, returning: null
Asking for: firewall.host, returning: null
Asking for: firewall.port, returning: null
Asking for: splash, returning: null
Asking for: savefile, returning: null
JBidWatch: Failed to load saved auctions: java.io.FileNotFoundException: auctions.xml (No such file or directory)
JBidWatch: Checking for old-style auction data file.
Asking for: proxy.host, returning: null
Asking for: server.port, returning: null
Asking for: server.enabled, returning: true
Raw server date: Tue Nov 28 09:33:52 EST 2000
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false
Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false

etc.

Does this help? Is there anything else I can do to provide you more diagnostic info?

I am having the same problem as Larry. I am using the jdk v1.3. I’ve tried both the .jar distro and compiling the .java source with the same result. JBidWatch starts up, I configure it, save my changes, then the Mascot logo pops up, goes away, and the debug menu starts scrolling “Asking for: ebay.synchronize, returning: false”. I tried setting sync to true in the config file and that just continues to scroll the same thing except it ends in “true” instead of false. Thats all I can get it to do, even after leaving it for several minutes.

I have not tried it on my linux box (RH7) just yet.

-Ken

oops.. forgot to mention that I am using JDK v1.3 in Windows 98SE.