Thursday, August 04, 2016

Installing SQLcl on OEL/RHEL

In my previous post I talked about how SQLcl came in handy to work with JavaScript against the database.

The installation of SQLcl is easy... you just download the zip, unpack and run the executable.

But to be fair, before I got SQLcl running (especially the script part) I encountered a number of issues, so hopefully this post helps you be able to run SQLcl with all features in minutes as it's meant to be :)


Those were the error messages I received when running sql (script):

javax.script.ScriptException: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Java class "java.util.ArrayList" has no public instance field or method named "0".

javax.script.ScriptException: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "Java" is not defined. (#1) in at line number 1

The solution for me was to upgrade my Java version to Java 8.

Here're the steps on my OEL/RHEL system to upgrade Java:

$ cd /opt

$ wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u102-b14/jdk-8u102-linux-x64.tar.gz"

$ tar xzf jdk-8u102-linux-x64.tar.gz 

cd jdk1.8.0_102/

alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/java 2
$ alternatives --config java

There are 5 programs which provide 'java'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
   1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
   2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
   3           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
*+ 4           /usr/java/jre1.8.0_101/bin/java
   5           /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/java

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 5

$ alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/jar 2
$ alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/javac 2
$ alternatives --set jar /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/jar
$ alternatives --set javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/javac
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_102"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode)


$ export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_102
export JRE_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_102/jre
$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/jdk1.8.0_102/bin:/opt/jdk1.8.0_102/jre/bin

Now when running SQLcl everything worked like a charm. Hurray :)

1 comment:

RAJESH said...

Got this new version of SQLCI from sqldeveloper.oracle.com but on Windows 7(64-bit) machine, got this error.

Any inputs/help on how to resolve this ?

C:\Users\179818>sql /nolog
Aug 05, 2016 11:08:01 AM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

SQLcl: Release 4.2.0.16.175.1027 RC on Fri Aug 05 11:08:04 2016

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