Network Programming in .NET

When building a Webworks / Phonegap app for BlackBerry, I got the following error message from ANT:

build:
[exec] [INFO] Parsing command line options
[exec] [INFO] Parsing bbwp.properties
[exec] [INFO] Validating application archive
[exec] [INFO] Parsing config.xml
[exec] [INFO] Populating application source
[exec] [INFO] Compiling BlackBerry WebWorks application
[exec] I/O Error: Cannot run program “C:\Program”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
[exec] [ERROR] RAPC exception occurred

This happened just after updating Java on my computer, so I assumed that it was something to do with Java, and that it was cutting off “Program Files” to “Program”.

After hunting around for the reference to Java that ANT uses, I spotted the file C:\BBWP\bin\bbwp.properties, which containted the following XML:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<wcp>
<additional>-quiet</additional>
<extension_repository>ext</extension_repository>
<jar>lib\net_rim_api.jar</jar>
<java>C:\Program files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25</java>
<rapc>bin\rapc.exe</rapc>
<wcp_template>device_templates</wcp_template>
</wcp>

So, using the old DOS hack, I changed Program files to “Progra~1”

<java>C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.6.0_25</java>

And re-ran ANT BUILD, and it worked!