PM76060: EGLSDK not complient with RTC API's to lacate ccubldc.exe

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 5 (8.0.1.5) for 8.0.1
Rational Business Developer 9.0
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack (8.5.1.1) for 8.5.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Environment:
  Rational Business Developer 8.5
  
  
  Problem description
  
  The EGLSDK can't work together with the RTC Client plainJavaLib.
  
  
  
  When we call the EGLSDK like this:
  
  
  
  com.ibm.etools.egl.util.EGLSDK eglsdk = new
  com.ibm.etools.egl.util.EGLSDK();
  
     eglsdk.process(newArgs);
  
  
  
  The lookup for the Install Bin Directory don't work if the the
  RTC      Client plainJavaLib was call before the EGLSDK. So the
  ccubldc.exe will not be located and the prepare step failed. The
  reason is that   eclipse/OSGi demon is still running.
   The current implementation of the  EGLSDK are using the  bun =
  Platform.getBundle('com.ibm.etools.egl.distributedbuild'); to
  check for Eclipse/not Eclipse but this is not   stable if you
  want to integrate with RTC.
  
  
  Have decompiled the code that give us the problem:
  
  
  
  The class BuildUtilities have this method:
  
  
  
   public static String getInstallBinDirectory()
  
      {
  
          String installBinDirectory = '';
  
          Bundle bun = null;
  
          try
  
          {
  
              bun = Platform.getBundle('com.ibm.etools.egl.
  
  distributedbuild');
  
          }
  
          catch(NoClassDefFoundError _ex)
  
          {
  
              return installBinDirectory;
  
          }
  
          try
  
          {
  
              String pathBin = 'executables';
  
              boolean isWindows = System.getProperty('os.name',
  '').
  toLowerCase().indexOf('windows') != -1;
  
              if(isWindows)
  
                  pathBin = (new
  StringBuilder(String.valueOf(pathBin))).
  append('/Win').toString();
  
              else
  
                  pathBin = (new
  StringBuilder(String.valueOf(pathBin))).
  append('/Linux').toString();
  
              URL defaultTemplateDirURL =
  FileLocator.resolve(bun.getEntry
  (pathBin));
  
              installBinDirectory =
  defaultTemplateDirURL.getPath();
              if(isWindows ??
  (installBinDirectory.startsWith('\\') ||
  installBinDirectory.startsWith('/')))
  
                  installBinDirectory =
  installBinDirectory.substring(1);
          }
  
          catch(IOException _ex) { }
  
          return installBinDirectory;
  
      }
  
  
  
  
  
  Ths problem is in this construction:
  
  
  
    try
  
          {
  
              bun = Platform.getBundle('com.ibm.etools.egl.
  
  distributedbuild');
  
          }
  
          catch(NoClassDefFoundError _ex)
  
          {
  
              return installBinDirectory;
  
          }
  
  
  
  When Eclipse/Osgi was in the 'air' before this code block the
  demon is  still running,
  so the   bun =
  Platform.getBundle('com.ibm.etools.egl.distributedbuild'); do
  not throw an exception, but the bun value is
  null because the eclipse with RBD is not running.
  
  
  
  Sugested change is the the code validate for bun = null. If this
  is   true the methos also  return installBinDirectory;
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• A Null Pointer Exception is thrown during the distributed build
  process if ceratin RTC methods are invoked prior to using EGLSDK
   (Such as com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform.startup())
  

Problem conclusion

• The distributed build code has been changed to check for Null
  and to monitor for ANY exception that is thrown when determining
   if the eclipse workspace it running.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSY

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