Re: Encountering Java errors with BEAUti

[Andrew Rambaut]

Dear Isaac,

Despite our best efforts it looks like a Java 6 dependency has crept into the BEAST code. What this means is that v1.7.3 of BEAUti will only run with Java 6 installed (although, as you note, BEAST itself will run in Java 5).

Java 1.6 is not available for Mac OS 10.4 so your alternatives are to upgrade the Mac OS X version to at least 10.5 (this will only work if it is an Intel-processor Mac). Or use another computer to run BEAUti on and then run BEAST on your Mac. 

Andrew

  

On 28 Aug 2012, at 16:56, Isaac <isaac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear community, 

I am a new user to BEAST encountering a similar issue to the one defined in this post. I can run BEAST v1.7.3 with no issue, but BEAUti v1.7.3 results in a box showing the error message "Uncaught exception in main method: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/filechooser/FileNameExtensionFilter." I am running Mac OS 10.4.11 on a machine with 2GB of RAM. When I try to run it from the command line, I get the following:

eeb-yqlabmac2:~/Desktop/BEAST yq$ java -jar lib/beauti.jar

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/filechooser/FileNameExtensionFilter

        at dr.app.beauti.BeautiApp$1.createDocumentFrame(Unknown Source)

        at jam.framework.MultiDocApplication.createDocumentFrame(Unknown Source)

        at jam.framework.MultiDocApplication.doNew(Unknown Source)

        at dr.app.beauti.BeautiApp.main(Unknown Source)

The post indicates that this is the result of using the wrong (or no) virtual machine. However, this page on the BEAST website has instructions only for solving this issue in a linux environment. All apple machines in the lab yield the same results. I would greatly appreciate any assistance! 

Additional information:

eeb-yqlabmac2:~/Desktop/BEAST yq$ java -version

java version "1.5.0_19"

Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing)

eeb-yqlabmac2:~/Desktop/BEAST yq$ 

Thank you,

-Isaac

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 Institute of Evolutionary Biology       University of Edinburgh
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[Isaac]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you very much for your response. I will use BEAUTi on other available units. 

Best,

Isaac