Thursday, January 10, 2013

CruiseControl 2.8.4 and JDK7

Upgraded system JDK to Java 7 and noticed that the dashboard in your CruiseControl stays gray?
Well there is even an official bug CC-1049 in the JIRA (currently it seems to be down, I used Google cache to access it).

With -debug switch on there is a hint error message:

Cannot construct net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.BuildLoopInformation as it does not have a no-args constructor.

The root of the problem: Oracle changed the vendor name from "Sun Microsystems Inc." to “Oracle Corporation”. The solution is really simple, either add

-Djava.vm.vendor="Sun Microsystems Inc." -XX:+OverrideVMProperties

to your java call in cruisecontrol.sh , or replace xstream-1.2.2.jar and xpp3_min-1.1.3.4.O.jar files both in lib/ and webapps/dashboard/WEB-INF/lib/ with xstream-1.4.1.jar and kxml2-2.3.0.jar respectively.

12 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 30, 2013 at 3:16 AM

    Replacing the two files worked for me. Thanks!

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  2. Bhaskar ReddyMay 10, 2013 at 4:41 PM

    I am using Cruisecontorl 2.8.3 and after my jdk7 upgrade it is not working Dashboard, Can you give me some suggestion

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  3. atarMay 10, 2013 at 4:58 PM

    I think it's the same as with 2.8.3. Have you tried what is described above?

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  4. FrancoJune 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM

    Brilliant - replacing the two jars solved this problem for me. Thank you for sharing!

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  5. michaelAugust 16, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    i tried the first option on Solaris 10 and got an error from JVM: Unrecognized JVM option: OverrideVMProperties

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  6. AnonymousAugust 20, 2013 at 3:05 PM

    I do confirm - this fix is working for CruiseControl 2.8.2 also.
    Artem - you saved my day!

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  7. CHANDRASeptember 11, 2013 at 12:48 PM

    Thank you for the fix.

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  8. Muhammad Ahmad RazaOctober 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    Thanks for the fix. Replacing file works.

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  9. AnonymousMay 22, 2014 at 1:08 AM

    Thanks for the fix.

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2015 at 12:49 PM

    Perfectly working after removing the xstream-1.2.1 and pasting your 1.4.1

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  11. p@vlosklDecember 22, 2015 at 9:57 AM

    Thanks!! It worked for me having cruisecontrol 2.8.3!!!

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  12. BradFebruary 2, 2018 at 8:42 PM

    Thank you! I tried the first option. However, I modified it to only add the following:

    -Djava.vm.vendor="Sun Microsystems Inc."

    as using the entire string didn't work.

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