J2EE app server won't start on Windows XP Pro

Question

Greetings --
I have been trying to get the J2EE SDK up and
running on my Portable computer but have been
unable to get the application server up and
running. Whenever I try to run it using
j2ee -verbose
I get
Error executing J2EE server ...
(I have included the entire error output below).
If anyone has encountered this problem and has
a fix -- I'd most appreciate it!
Thanks in advance!
NN
Relevent information follows...
******* MY ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES *********
I have set the following environment variables:
1. JAVA_HOME (set to the J2SE installation directory)
2. J2EE_HOME (set to J2EE installation directory)
3. PATH (set to include JAVA_HOME\bin and
J2EE_HOME\bin).
******* MY SYSTEM INFO *********
The following is my OS and system info:
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: x86 Family 15 Model
2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel
~ 997 Mhz
Total Physical
Memory: 511 MB
******* j2ee -verbose ERROR OUTPUT *********
C:\myjava>j2ee -verbose
No local string for j2ee.listenPort
J2EE server listen port: 1050
No local string for j2ee.naming
Naming service started: 1050
No local string for enterprise.log.logging.serverversion.started
No local string for enterprise.log.using.vm.name.version.from
No local string for enterprise.log.vm's.classpath
No local string for enterprise.log.j2ee.homedirectory
No local string for enterprise.log.logging.serverversion.started
No local string for enterprise.log.using.vm.name.version.from
No local string for enterprise.log.vm's.classpath
No local string for enterprise.log.j2ee.homedirectory
No local string for idle_resource_threshold_error
No local string for binding.datasource
No local string for binding.datasource
No local string for binding.datasource
No local string for binding.datasource
No local string for binding.datasource
No local string for binding.datasource
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.pointbase.xa.xaDataSource
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:198)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:262)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:322)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:130)
at com.sun.enterprise.repository.JdbcXAResource.createDataSource(JdbcXAR
esource.java:65)
at com.sun.enterprise.resource.ResourceInstaller.installJdbcXADataSource
s(ResourceInstaller.java:458)
at com.sun.enterprise.resource.ResourceInstaller.installJdbcDataSources(
ResourceInstaller.java:349)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.run(J2EEServer.java:264)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.main(J2EEServer.java:972)
No local string for poolmgr.datasourceerror
Error in creating data source object
No local string for jms.start
Starting JMS service...
No local string for enterprise.log.logging.serverversion.started
No local string for enterprise.log.using.vm.name.version.from
No local string for enterprise.log.vm's.classpath
No local string for enterprise.log.j2ee.homedirectory
No local string for enterprise.log.logging.serverversion.started
No local string for enterprise.log.using.vm.name.version.from
No local string for enterprise.log.vm's.classpath
No local string for enterprise.log.j2ee.homedirectory
No local string for enterprise.log.logging.serverversion.started
No local string for enterprise.log.using.vm.name.version.from
No local string for enterprise.log.vm's.classpath
No local string for enterprise.log.j2ee.homedirectory
No local string for jms.start.failed
Couldn't start JMS service...
javax.jms.JMSException: unable to locate resource bundle: com.sun.jms.service.Lo
calStrings
at com.sun.jms.service.JMSManagerImpl.startJMSService(JMSManagerImpl.jav
a:91)
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsUtil.startJmsService(JmsUtil.java:169)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.run(J2EEServer.java:268)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.main(J2EEServer.java:972)
javax.jms.JMSException: unable to locate resource bundle: com.sun.jms.service.Lo
calStrings
at com.sun.jms.service.JMSManagerImpl.startJMSService(JMSManagerImpl.jav
a:91)
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsUtil.startJmsService(JmsUtil.java:169)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.run(J2EEServer.java:268)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.main(J2EEServer.java:972)
java.lang.RuntimeException: unable to locate resource bundle: com.sun.jms.servic
e.LocalStrings
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.run(J2EEServer.java:346)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EEServer.main(J2EEServer.java:972)
J2EE server reported the following error: unable to locate resource bundle: com.
sun.jms.service.LocalStrings
Error executing J2EE server ...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: COM/cloudscape/core/AbstractDataSource
at com.sun.jms.service.JMSServiceImpl.stop(JMSServiceImpl.java:1334)
at com.sun.jms.service.JMSServiceImpl.stop(JMSServiceImpl.java:1313)
at com.sun.jms.service.JMSServiceImpl$1.run(JMSServiceImpl.java:107)
C:\myjava>

Answer 1

I found the answer (thanks to Aaron Walsh) to this so I'll go ahead answer my own question for posterity (just in case someone else with the same problem stumbles across this post). The problem was that I had copied the j2ee.jar file to JAVA_HOME\jre\lib\ext. Evidently, it was this jar that the Reference Implementation was using and likely it could not find resource files relative to that context.
BOTTOM LINE: DON'T COPY j2ee.jar TO THE EXTENSIONS DIRECTORY OF YOUR JAVA RUNTIME.
Cheers,
NN