Cannot start MARY in standalone (non-server) mode

[masc01]

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I have MARY_TTS running in client-server mode without problem but when I try the server=false option I get the exception below. I cannot find the missing class in the jar files down-loaded. The log file with debug shows no error (see below)

The content of the input file for the dump below was the word 'hello', but the same error occurs with a '<maryxml ...' file.

Any suggestions would be very welcome?

Jon Wise University of Gloucestershire

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unknown MaryDataType `null'
	at de.dfki.lt.mary.MaryDataType.get(MaryDataType.java:217)
	at de.dfki.lt.mary.Mary.main(Mary.java:459)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: de.dfki.lt.mary.datatypes.null_Definer
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
	at de.dfki.lt.mary.MaryDataType.get(MaryDataType.java:215)
	... 1 more

Log file :

2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] INFO  main       Mary starting up...
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] INFO  main       Specification version 3.0.2
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] INFO  main       Implementation version 20060704
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] INFO  main       Running on a Java 1.5.0_07 implementation by Sun Microsystems Inc., on a Windows 2000 platform (x86, 5.0)
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       Full dump of system properties:
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.version = 1.5.0_07
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc.
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vendor.url = http://java.sun.com/
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.home = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.specification.version = 1.0
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.specification.vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc.
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.specification.name = Java Virtual Machine Specification
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.version = 1.5.0_07-b03
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc.
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.vm.name = Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.specification.version = 1.5
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.specification.vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc.
2006-09-06 10:51:43,246 [main] DEBUG main       java.specification.name = Java Platform API Specification
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.class.version = 49.0
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.class.path = d:\MARY_TTS\java\mary-common.jar;d:\MARY_TTS\java\mary-english.jar;d:\MARY_TTS\java\mary-freetts.jar;d:\MARY_TTS\java\log4j-1.2.8.jar
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.library.path = C:\WINNT\system32;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;d:\MARY_TTS\lib\windows;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\WBEM;C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.5.0_04\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\ROXIOS~1\DLLSHA~1;D:\GTK\2.0\bin;D:\Python24;C:\PROGRA~1\OpenSSH\bin
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.io.tmpdir = d:\DOCUME~1\s2100779\LOCALS~1\Temp\
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.compiler = null
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       java.ext.dirs = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\lib\ext
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       os.name = Windows 2000
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       os.arch = x86
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       os.version = 5.0
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       file.separator = \
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       path.separator = ;
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       line.separator = 

2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       user.name = s2100779
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       user.home = d:\Documents and Settings\s2100779
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       user.dir = D:\MARY_TTS\bin
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       Mary-specific system properties:
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       mary.base = d:\MARY_TTS
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       shprot.base = d:\MARY_TTS\lib\modules\shprot
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       server = false
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       XML libraries used:
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       Xerces-J 2.4.0
2006-09-06 10:51:43,261 [main] DEBUG main       Xalan Java 2.5.0
2006-09-06 10:51:43,417 [main] INFO  main       Startup complete.

[masc01]

Indeed, I have not tried the non-server mode in a long time. It probably is not a good idea in most situations, because of the system startup time which can be many seconds. Nevertheless, if we claim this should work, we should make it work.

[masc01]

fixed: start synthesis module early also in non-server mode, but delay the actual allocation of the voices until when they are needed. This way, only the voice(s) that are actually used will take time to load.

Also, be more lenient as to input spec: provide default values for -Dinput.type, -Doutput.type and -Daudio.type.