{"id":3724,"date":"2011-01-19T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:52:22","slug":"groovy-startup-error-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3724","title":{"rendered":"Groovy startup error on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/groovy.codehaus.org\">Groovy <\/a>on my laptop running Windows XP and kept getting the errormessage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>error: could not find client or server jvm under C:\\apps\\IBM\\SDP\\jdk\\bin<br \/>\nplease check that it is a valid jdk \/ jre containing the desired type of jvm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>JAVA_HOME was set, tried to add the path to the jdk, but still did not help. Then found the solution at <a href=\"http:\/\/groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com\/startup-error-td343246.html\">&#8230;startup-error-&#8230;.html<\/a>. Problem was that when issuing the command &#8216;groovy&#8217; alone it runs the groovy.exe, but the .exe-file does not handle the paths correct for some reason. Running groovy.bat fixes the problem since it handles the paths correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out Groovy on my laptop running Windows XP and kept getting the errormessage: error: could not find client or server jvm under C:\\apps\\IBM\\SDP\\jdk\\bin please check that it is a valid jdk \/ jre containing the desired type of jvm JAVA_HOME was set, tried to add the path to the jdk, but still did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}