bin/client script cannot be run on IBM JVM

Issue

• When trying to execute the ./bin/client script on a machine using the IBM JVM the following error occurs:

$ ./client --help
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux ppc64-64 jvmxp6460sr8ifx-20100609_59383 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.InterpolationHelper.performSubstitution(InterpolationHelper.java:58)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.loadLayout(Properties.java:355)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.load(Properties.java:128)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.load(Properties.java:124)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.load(Properties.java:108)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.<init>(Properties.java:102)
        at org.apache.felix.utils.properties.Properties.<init>(Properties.java:95)
        at org.apache.karaf.client.Main.main(Main.java:57)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:423)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:653)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:346)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:619)
        ... 8 more