Could not find the OffLine WLST class (WL 10.3)

Question

Hi,
I am confused about this scenario, please help me.
I keep getting the below when I run the wlst.sh script.
Problem invoking WLST - java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not find the OffLine WLST class
So what I did was add weblogic.jar to the classpath in the script. But I still get the same error. However, if I run it from the command line without the -D option, I no longer get that error, but get one about abother missing class.
Here is my wlst.sh
# cat wlst.sh
#!/bin/sh
# set up WL_HOME, the root directory of your WebLogic installation
WL_HOME="/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/bea/wlserver_10.3"
# set up common environment
. "${WL_HOME}/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh"
CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}:${WL_HOME}/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbembedded57.jar:${WL_HOME}/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbtools57.jar:${WL_HOME}/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbclient57.jar:${WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.jar"
echo
echo CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}
"${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java" -Dprod.props.file=${WL_HOME}/.product.properties weblogic.WLST $*and here is the properties file it is using
# cat ${WL_HOME}/.product.properties
#Mon Nov 30 13:34:33 CET 2009
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java6_64
WLS_JAVA_HOME=/usr/java6_64
JAVAHOME=/usr/java6_64
PLATFORMHOME=/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/wlserver_10.3
WLS_INSTALL_DIR=/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/wlserver_10.3
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl
java.vm.version=2.4
LOCALE=en
CONFIGWIZ_HOME=/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/wlserver_10.3
java.vm.vendor=IBM Corporation
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
WLS_JAVA_VENDOR=Unknown
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
DOCSWEBROOT=http\://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs103
NODEMGR_PORT=5556
BEAHOME=/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/bea
WL_HOME=/exec/products/weblogic/v10.3/bea/wlserver_10.3So to sum up, when after adding weblogic.jar to the classpath, I still get the same error if I run the script where it uses the properties file.
However, if I run it without using the properties file, then I get
# java weblogic.WLST
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorClassLoader
        at weblogic.WLST.main(WLST.java:19)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorClassLoader
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:421)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:652)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:346)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:618)
        ... 1 moreSo any ideas on how to get this working would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
If you need access to WebLogic container code on top of WLST scripting API such as the scenario where a plain SE Java class needs to call a remote method on a Stateless/Stateful session bean for example - I find it is easier to include the generated wlfullclient.jar - just don't use this jar in an application managed servlet context.
For non-EE/ejb/web contexts (SE) use wlfullclient.jar generated from
$WLS_INSTALL\wlserver_10.3\server\lib>java -jar wljarbuilder.jarThen run your client with the above jar in the classpath like
java -cp .;wls/wlfullclient.jar org.eclipse.persistence.example.distributed.Clientthank you
/Michael O'Brien
http://www.eclipselink.org