Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Zeller <>]

I thought we required java 6 to build grouper 1.5+, however, our
documentation isn't clear to me.

Try the Grouper API Binary Distribution (from
http://www.internet2.edu/grouper/software.html) to avoid compiling -
you'll need java 6 to run the command line utility gsh.sh.

TomZ

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Dick Visser 
<>
 wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Let me introduce myself, my name is Dick Visser, and I am TERENA's
> system & network engineer. We have decided to use Grouper as the group
> management tool to start our federation attempts. We are just starting
> out and the ideas is to gradually federate some of our webapps.
>
> Grouper seems to rely heavily on Java - which unfortunately I do not
> have too much experience with. Here's how I started out:
>
> I dedicated a separate VM for Grouper, which runs Ubuntu 8.04. This has
> tomcat5.5 and java 1.5.0 in it's repository, which should be good to go
> according to the
>
> To get the source I've checked out
> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/branches/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH, this
> is giving me r6428.
>
> I found https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+Product
> and I can see that I now should follow:
>
>
> 1. API Installation
> 2. UI Installation
> 3. WS Installation
> 4. Initializing Administration of Privileges
>
>
> However the API building step at
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=11076532 is
> already giving problems.
> When I run 'ant dist' I get a huge string of errors:
>
>
>
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> init:
>
> init.conf:
>
> compile:
>    [javac] Compiling 4 source files to
> /usr/local/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH/grouper/dist/build/grouper
>    [javac] ----------
>    [javac] 1. ERROR in
> /usr/local/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH/grouper/src/grouper/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/shibboleth/attributeDefinition/LdapDnPSOIdentifierAttributeDefinition.java
>    [javac]  (at line 24)
>    [javac]     import javax.naming.ldap.LdapName;
>    [javac]            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    [javac] The import javax.naming.ldap.LdapName cannot be resolved
>    [javac] ----------
>    [javac] 2. ERROR in
> /usr/local/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH/grouper/src/grouper/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/shibboleth/attributeDefinition/LdapDnPSOIdentifierAttributeDefinition.java
> (at line 25)
>    [javac]     import javax.naming.ldap.Rdn;
>    [javac]            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    [javac] The import javax.naming.ldap.Rdn cannot be resolved
>    [javac] ----------
>    [javac] 3. ERROR in
> /usr/local/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH/grouper/src/grouper/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/shibboleth/attributeDefinition/LdapDnPSOIdentifierAttributeDefinition.java
>    [javac]  (at line 77)
>    [javac]     public List<Rdn> getRdnsFromStemName(String stemName)
> throws AttributeResolutionException {
>    [javac]                 ^^^
>    [javac] Rdn cannot be resolved to a type
> .......
> .......
>    [javac] The field USDU.grouperSourceAdapterId is never read locally
>    [javac] ----------
>    [javac] 836 problems (31 errors, 805 warnings)
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> THANKS
>
>
> --
> Dick Visser
> System & Networking Engineer
> TERENA Secretariat
> Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> T +31 20 530 44 88 F +31 20 530 44 99
> 
>  | www.terena.org
>
>
>