[protege-discussion] Running Protégé from a Windows Command Line

[Thomas Russ]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:03 AM, O'Neill, Dennis wrote:

> I am trying to run Protégé from the command line under Windows XP so  
> that I can specify a larger heap size; but I am having a problem. If  
> I try either of the forms documented in the FAQ (http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/faq.html#02.03 
> ), I get the following error message:
>
> C:\Program Files\Protege_3.4_beta>java -jar protege.jar -Xmx500M
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ 
> jgoodies/looks/plastic/PlasticTheme
>         at edu.stanford.smi.protege.Application.main(Unknown Source)
>
> I can run protégé.exe just fine from the protégé directory, but  
> there doesn't seem to be any way to pass Java VM params from that  
> command line.
>
> There are other reasons why I cannot just make the desired change in  
> the Protege.lax file, so that method will not work.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

You can't execute protege using the "-jar" flag, because the  
protege.jar is not complete.

Instead, you will need to include more jar files on the classpath and  
then specify the startup class directly.

At a minimum, you will need all of the jar files in the Protege  
directory on the path.

Try
    java -classpath protege.jar:looks-2.1.3.jar:unicode_panel.jar - 
Xmx500m edu.stanford.smi.protege.Application

Actually, since you seem to be running windows, I think you will need  
to use the semi-colon version instead:

    java -classpath protege.jar;looks-2.1.3.jar;unicode_panel.jar - 
Xmx500m edu.stanford.smi.protege.Application

> Thanks,
>
> Dennis M. O'Neill
> SAIC
> Room 2848B
> doneill at marathonoil.com
> (281) 236-5690
>
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