Question

I am trying to run Selenium Server using a network path as follows:

java -jar "\\my-remote-computer-name\Software\selenium-server-2.5.0\selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar"

and how can I avoid this exception:

Sep 6, 2011 11:15:48 AM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
11:15:48.460 INFO - Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 16.3-b01
11:15:48.462 INFO - OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.logVersionNumber(SeleniumServer.java:275
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.logStartupInfo(SeleniumServer.java:678)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.<init>(SeleniumServer.java:229)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.main(SeleniumServer.java:200)
        at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher.main(GridLauncher.java:40)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component
        at java.io.File.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.openqa.selenium.internal.BuildInfo.loadBuildProperties(BuildInfo.java:46)
        at org.openqa.selenium.internal.BuildInfo.<clinit>(BuildInfo.java:38)
        ... 5 more

Answer 1

Actually I did a lot of tests, changing paths and parameters… and I figure out that:

Under Windows 7 I cannot run Command Prompt locally to call java command calling this selenium server jar which by its turn is in another computer.

I had to put selenium server’s jar in the same computer:

java -jar C:\temp\selenium-server-2.5.0\selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar

Doing this, the java exception is gone.