Jpype on RHEL v3

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I have been trying out jpype for python to java work and love it. It
works great on my gentoo box with the java 1.4.2 blackdown sdk.

I am now trying it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for access to business
intelligence tools (JasperReports, Mondrian, Pentaho, etc) for which we
don't have analogous tools in cpython yet. My idea it to use jpype in
a cherrypy application server to tie these java BI tools into a website
interface without having to delve into the more complex java J2EE
application servers and lose all the python libraries that I know and
love.

Here is my problem.

When trying to start the jvm with the sun jre I get this error.

[root@servername root]# python2.4
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Dec 1 2005, 05:44:04)
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import jpype
>>> jpype.startJVM( '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so')[/color][/color][/color]
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

and then python dies.

When I try to start the jvm with the ibm jre I get this error.

[root@servername root]# python2.4
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Dec 1 2005, 05:44:04)
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import jpype
>>> jpype.startJVM( '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.2/jre/bin/classic/libjvm.so')[/color][/color][/color]
Unable to find UTE, path used libjava.so/libute.so
JVMCI170: Please check the path to shared libraries
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jpype/_core.py", line 25, in
startJVM
_jpype.startup( jvm, tuple(args), True)
RuntimeError: Unable to start JVM at src/native/common/jp_env.cpp:54

but the python interpreter is still running.

Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can fix this?

Thanks

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Re: Jpype on RHEL v3

I found the problem. So if anyone else has it here is the fix.

In the documentation distributed with JPype 0.5.1 in the examples/linux
directory, there is a file that describes a problem with loading the
jvm on linux. So one needs to modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable to fix it.

I did that after changing one line in
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jpype/_linux.py line 37 to

return "/etc/alternatives/java_sdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so"

so that jpype.getDefaul tJVMPath() would return the correct libjvm.so
path for my install.

Then I did

export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH =/etc/alternatives/java_sdk/jre/lib/i386:/etc/alternatives/java_sdk/jre/lib/i386/client

after doing that the sun 1.4.2 jre loaded just fine with:
[root@servername root]# python2.4
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Dec 1 2005, 05:44:04)
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import jpype
>>> jpype.startJVM( jpype.getDefaul tJVMPath())
>>>[/color][/color][/color]