Admin console never gets past discovery

Question

trying to run admin console for iMS 5.2, never gets past the "running discovery stage". I get the error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/Jpanel at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Compiled Code)
Any ideas on how to fix this? This is on a Solaris 8 system. Note that the console for the iDS 5.1 runs fine (this is on the same machine).

Answer 1

I also got this one...
the problem is : the .jars used for the iMS 5.2 console work badly with any Iplanet Console V5.x (they are for a console 4.2)
in the other way, the jars used for iDS5.x work wery badly (if not at all) with a server console v4.2
console 4.2 is installed in the server root of iMS 5.x
console 5.x is installed in the server root of iDS 5.x
so indeed, if these server roots are different, you "almost got" no problem (2 different consoles), unless :
both your servers are in the same administration domain, in which case you have a "server Group" and a "server group (2)" in any of the 2 consoles
if you mess things up in console 4.2, ie you try just once to load the jars of iDS 5.x by clicking on a Directory server Instance, then on subsequent startup, your console 4.2 goes no further than the screen "running discovery".
the workaround is somewhere documented, the quick explanation is :
in the jars directory of the console 4.2, find all jars which are used for iDS5.x, and replace them by 0 byte-sized files (nullfiles). This allows the console to reload correctly, and prevents you from further trying to load/use iDS5.x jars on a 4.2 console (you get a red dot in place of the standard icon)