JSF 1.1 and JDK 6

Today I tried to run an application developed with JSF 1.1 on Tomcat 6 running over JDK 1.6.
When I started the application, I got the following exception:

javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: [Ljava.lang.String;

After a short search in the Web, I found this thread on java.net foruns:

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=15823

The proposed solution was put a -D argument on Java startup, as follows:

-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true

If you're running your application on Eclipse, open "Run -> Open Run Dialog", and in the
Arguments tab of Apache Tomcat (or any other app server that you use), put the above parameter
in the field VM Arguments. The image below shows the configured Open Run Dialog:

VMWare and Ubuntu 64 bits

Hello everybody!

Just a quick note for those who installed VMWare 64 bits on Ubuntu Hardy 64 bits.
If you are trying to start a virtual machine and gets an error like this one: "Cannot connect to peer process" or something like this, try to run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

For some reason, VMWare wants to run something related to 32 bits libraries. This worked
fine for me, and now I can start virtual machines normally.

I think this solution works for any 64 bits distribution.

See you!