java.awt.AWTError:Assistive Technology Not Found

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anna rouben

2001-06-28 22:24:30 UTC

Hi, I tried to build netbeans using Ant. I downloaded NetBeans-release32-src
and extra binaries NetBeans-release32-src. Unfortunately, at the end of the
build procedure the following error appeared java.awt.AWTError:Assistive
Technology Not Found: jaccessHelper...
Any ideas how I can fix it?

Thank You

Jesse Glick

2001-06-29 17:26:02 UTC

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Post by anna rouben
Hi, I tried to build netbeans using Ant. I downloaded NetBeans-release32-src
and extra binaries NetBeans-release32-src. Unfortunately, at the end of the
build procedure the following error appeared java.awt.AWTError:Assistive
Technology Not Found: jaccessHelper...

Do you have a standard JDK? Do you have some accessibility stuff in your JRE's
lib/ext/ dir that might not be working? I'm sure you would not get such an
error in a clean environment, at least I've never heard of it before.

-Jesse

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Maya Venkatraman

2001-06-29 18:20:59 UTC

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Hi anna -

Perhaps you can look at your jre/lib directory and see what is in the
accessibility
properties file. You might have -
assistive_technologies= jaccesshelper.embedded.EmbeddedHelper
in there - which makes it look for the jAccessHelper (which it seems it
cannot find.)
Removing the "jaccesshelper.embedded.EmbeddedHelper" part (or the
entire file in case this is all you have in there - should get rid of this
problem. (Or making sure that you have a copy of the jAccessHelper in
a location where it can be located should also work).

hope this helps

maya

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Dusan Pavlica

2001-07-02 20:40:17 UTC

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Hi Anna,
I obtained the same error, when I upgraded jdk and JaccessHelper to
Version 0.3.
You should set this row:
assistive_technologies=jaccesshelper.embedded.EmbeddedHelper
in file: jdkhome/jre/lib/accessibility.properties
and file jaccesshelper-embedded.jar has to be placed in directory
jdkhome/jre/lib/ext/
Then it's working OK.

Dusan