JBoss A-MQ 6.2.1 take long time to start for the first time.

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
    • 6.2.1

Issue

  • Starting JBoss A-MQ 6.2.1 on a machine without internet access and a new local repository, induces the stop of the console at 64% and finishes some minutes later.
  • The instance generate the following exception in the log:
2016-03-07 12:01:56,044 | WARN  | pool-3-thread-1  | AetherBasedResolver              | mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver  583 | 5 - org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-log         ging-api - 1.8.4 | Error resolving artifactorg.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-osgi-registry:jar:1.1:Could not transfer artifact org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronim         o-osgi-registry:jar:1.1 from/to maven.central.repo (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/): Connect to repo1.maven.org:80 [repo1.maven.org/185.31.18.209] failed: Connec         tion timed out
shaded.org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-osgi-registry:jar:1.1 from/to ma         ven.central.repo (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/): Connect to repo1.maven.org:80 [repo1.maven.org/185.31.18.209] failed: Connection timed out

Resolution

This is a bug reported in JBoss A-MQ Jira: ENTESB-5111 and it will be resolved in a future releases of JBoss A-MQ.

A possible workaround:

  1. Unzip jboss-a-mq-6.2.1.redhat-084.zip
  2. Add all the missing jars to the system folder of JBoss_A-MQ. (The list of the missing jars is present on root cause section).
  3. Start your JBoss A-MQ: bin/amq

Root Cause

The JBoss A-MQ tries to download a missing jars on his system folder at the first start.

Below the list of identified missing jars:
1. {JBossA-MQ_HOME}/system/org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-osgi-registry/1.1/geronimo-osgi-registry-1.1.jar
2. {JBossA-MQ_HOME}/system/org/apache/servicemix/bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jaxb-xjc/2.2.11_1/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jaxb-xjc-2.2.11_1.jar
3. {JBossA-MQ_HOME}/system/org/apache/servicemix/specs/org.apache.servicemix.specs.jaxws-api-2.2/2.5.0/org.apache.servicemix.specs.jaxws-api-2.2-2.5.0.jar
4. {JBossA-MQ_HOME}/system/org/apache/servicemix/specs/org.apache.servicemix.specs.jsr339-api-2.0/2.5.0/org.apache.servicemix.specs.jsr339-api-2.0-2.5.0.jar
5. {JBossA-MQ_HOME}/system/org/apache/servicemix/specs/org.apache.servicemix.specs.saaj-api-1.3/2.5.0/org.apache.servicemix.specs.saaj-api-1.3-2.5.0.jar

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