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 :)