Newbie problem with STS, Roo and 'premature end of file'

[Kai_2k]

Hello all,
I am a newbie, please be gentle!
I've been following some tutorials
http://duckranger.com/2012/04/spring...-add-some-jpa/
and I am hitting a problem when trying to set up JPA with STS and ROO.
I'm running Kubuntu / Linux and I'm using
JDK 1.7.0_05
STS 2.9.2

I've tried ROO
1.1.5
1.2.2

I basically open a new roo shell

I've tried the following commands

jpa setup --provider HIBERNATE --database MYSQL
jpa setup --provider HIBERNATE --database H2_IN_MEMORY

Both of which give me

____ ____ ____
/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \
/ /_/ / / / / / / /
/ _, _/ /_/ / /_/ /
/_/ |_|\____/\____/ 1.2.2.RELEASE [rev 7d75659]


Welcome to Spring Roo. For assistance press CTRL+SPACE or type "hint" then hit ENTER.
roo> jpa setup --provider HIBERNATE --database H2_IN_MEMORY
Premature end of file.
roo>

I've read a bit about this but cannot seem to get anywhere.

One post said try Roo 1.1.5, which I have tried (use 'persistence' in command not JPA) - I get the same results.

Nothing of any relevance appears in my Eclipse logs.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated,

Many thanks
Kai

[krimple]

I don't see a project creation command. You'd need project --topLevelPackage...

Can you try this:

mkdir somedir
cd /somedir
roo script wedding.roo

If that works, then I am guessing it's your configuration. Do you have the JDK in your path, or a JRE? Can you do a java -fullversion and give us the complete JDK you're using (openjdk, etc)?

Roo 1.1.5 is old. It will work, but will give you an older Spring configuration and comes with its own bugs. You're better off with a 1.2 code line.

[Kai_2k]

I don't see a project creation command. You'd need project --topLevelPackage...

Can you try this:

mkdir somedir
cd /somedir
roo script wedding.roo

If that works, then I am guessing it's your configuration. Do you have the JDK in your path, or a JRE? Can you do a java -fullversion and give us the complete JDK you're using (openjdk, etc)?

Roo 1.1.5 is old. It will work, but will give you an older Spring configuration and comes with its own bugs. You're better off with a 1.2 code line.

Krimple,
Thank you for your reply and my apologies for the late response.
OK, I've cured this problem, it was er, a schoolboy error. When I ran the command, Roo initially complained that it could not find src/main/resources/META_INF/spring/applicationContext.xml. As per the tutorial (comments at the bottom) I just created it manually, but with no real content (via STS new->xml file). This was the premature end of file. I did it so quickly I dismissed it. When I went back to the file and added the usual header details, the problem went away.

Thanks again for your help
Kai