Silk workbench cannot be started on Windows

[RinkeHoekstra]

The silk-workbench.bat script in silk-workbench-2.7.1 tries to set the classpath to a very long list of jars. This line is too long as windows will complain "input line too long". Using a wildcard instead does not solve the issue.

Also, when setting the classpath in multiple lines, the line where the workbench is actually started fails too since it cannot find the main class.

[mit2nil]

Hi Silk Devs,

Even I am having this issue. Long list of class names can be resolved by simply adding new line char. However, it fails in finding the class, play.core.server.NettyServer.

Can someone please suggest a workaround? I tried 2.6.x and I am getting same issue.

Nilay

[robertisele]

Hi,

this is an issue of the sbt native packager that is used by the Play
framework to build the package [1]. As far as I know it only occurs on
Windows. You can workaround by starting the Play Server manually, e.g.:

java -cp "lib/*;" play.core.server.NettyServer .

Cheers,
Robert

[1] sbt/sbt-native-packager#72

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Nilay Chheda notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi Silk Devs,

Even I am having this issue. Long list of class names can be resolved by
simply adding new line char. However, it fails in finding the class,
play.core.server.NettyServer.

Can someone please suggest a workaround? I tried 2.6.x and I am getting
same issue.

Nilay

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[mit2nil]

Thanks Rob. This seems to be working. I also have one more query. After starting play server, how do I actually start a silk workbench application?

In the documentation, only information available is to run command sbt "project workbench" run

However, that is resulting in the following error:
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
[info] Set current project to silk-workbench-2-7-1 (in build file:/C:/stuff/Git/museum-link-curation/record_linkage/datasets/silk-workbench-2.7.1/)
[error] Not a valid project ID: workbench (similar: silk-workbench-2-7-1)
[error] project workbench
[error]

I am not sure what I am missing here. Thanks for the help.

[mit2nil]

By the way, same error I am observing on my virtual machine running latest Fedora distro. So this issue seems to be platform agnostic.

[Gautamshahi]

Did you solve the issue? I am getting the same problem.