How to Install Bruce Eckels Annotated Solutions Guide code examples

I recenlty bought Bruce Eckels book/pdf "Thinking in Java Fourth Edition" and The Annotated Solutions Guide code examples.
The installation instructions for the code examples are not written for OS X and that is where the trouble starts..

First the CLASSPATH has to be set to the code examples directory.
I can add the CLASSPATH to the bashrc but decided to add the paths to the DefaultClassPath in /System/Library/Java/JavaConfig.plist

Then some jar files have to be copied to a created directory,
javassist.jar, swt.jar, tools.jar, javaws.jar, xom.jar, and added to the CLASSPATH.

So after this the DefaultClassPath looks like this:

Code:

        DefaultClasspath = "$HOME/Library/Java:$NEXT_ROOT/Library/Java:$NEXT_ROOT/System/Library/Java:$NEXT_ROOT/Network/Library/Java:$NEXT_ROOT/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Classes/classes.jar:$NEXT_ROOT/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Classes/ui.jar:/Users/peter/Documents/Java\ training/TIJ4-Solutions-code:/Users/peter/Documents/Java\ training/jars/javassist.jar:/Users/peter/Documents/Java\ training/jars/javaws.jar:/Users/peter/Documents/Java\ training/jars/swt.jar:/Users/peter/Documents/Java\ training/jars/xom-1.1.jar";

Installing ant was easy, so building the code could start using ant...
But it fails

Code:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/peter/Documents/Java training/TIJ4-Solutions-code/build.xml:70: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/peter/Documents/Java training/TIJ4-Solutions-code/net/build.xml:68: You must install the Javassist library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/

I installed the javassist jar file in the same directory as defined in DefaultClassPath so have no clue what is wrong. Hints / tips ??

Also tools.jar is not available in the JDK installed with OS X wherefore i have not found a workaround. Does somebody have a workaround for this ? Or better complete instructions for installing the code examples from Bruce Eckels Annotated Solution Guide for Thinking in Java. I cannot imagine that i am the first to install this on OS X, and googled ont his subject but have not been able to find any instructions.

Any help is welcome !

 

How to Install Bruce Eckels Annotated Solutions Guide code examples {solution}

Finally worked it out and sent it to Bruce himself.

Now even Bruces supports !

http://www.petervannes.nl/files/category-java.php
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/TIJ4/Solutions/Index.php

 

BUILD FAILED J2SE5 required

Hi TheCodec,

The build.xml i have used does not check for java version 1.5 but for 'NOT (Java 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4)'. The ''BUILD FAILED C:\TIJ4\code\build.xml:59:J2SE5 required" error is printed unless the following condition is met.

Code:

  <condition property="version1.5OrGreater">
    <not>
      <or>
        <equals arg1="${ant.java.version}" arg2="1.1"/>
        <equals arg1="${ant.java.version}" arg2="1.2"/>
        <equals arg1="${ant.java.version}" arg2="1.3"/>
        <equals arg1="${ant.java.version}" arg2="1.4"/>
      </or>
    </not>
  </condition>

Since the line number printed is 59 is assume that this is also the run target in your build.xml ? This target depends on the build target which compiles all build.xml files in the child projects/examples. So i think there occurs an error in the subant build.xml files which are called. Can you check the errors.txt file and see what is printed there ? I also checked some subant build.xml files but could not find odd code there.