ColdFusion Webservice gotcha on OS X

September 25, 2008 · 2 Comments

As I was getting my presentation on ColdSpring ready for A Wee Dram of Scotch, I come across the following problem, that none of my webservices would work! I started getting the following error:

coldfusion.jsp.JavaCompiler$UnknownCompiler: Unable to run the internal Java compiler: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/tools/StandardJavaFileManager.

Following a bunch of blogs and thanks to Peter Freitag, the answer was simple, move the tools.jar from your <ColdFusion Install>/lib (or <JRUN Install>servers/cfusion/cfusion-ear/cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib ) and restart the server. Bam... back to webservices working fine again. I am just putting this either to help other people, or to help me next time I forget about this

Tags: coldfusion · coldspring

2 responses so far ↓

1 Sana // Sep 25, 2008 at 11:28 PM

Hi Mark

Cool tip, but (tools.jar should be removed or rename).
just a small correction :)
2 Mark Drew // Sep 26, 2008 at 10:16 AM

That is what I meant, move it out of that folder, put it anywhere else or delete it.

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