Hermes works, but no longer maintained

Juergen Weber — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:51:37 -0000

Steps to get Hermes to work under Windows 11:

Hack the installer jar, to remove the need for Admin rights for the start menu entry: res/shortcutSpec.xml keep only an empty <shortcuts></shortcuts>

Use a 32 bit Java 8

run the installer.jar

replace lib/xercesImpl.jar with a current one

hermes.bat

set JAVA_HOME=C:\util\jdk\jdk8u352-b08_x86
set HERMES_HOME=C:\util\HermesJMS
set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

to see possible exceptions, at the end replace start javaw with
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java"

Hermes works, but no longer maintained

Dan Richter — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:09:35 -0000

It seems that maintenance on Hermes stopped around 2011, which is a shame, because it’s great software. You can still download it and use it. Solace sort of endorses Hermes.

The domain names [hermesjms.com] and [hermesjms.org] are no longer registered.

Some tips on getting started

Dan Richter — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:57:05 -0000

Hermes was designed for Java 6, and technology changes fast. Here are some pointers on getting it to work on Java 8:
1. Only use a 32-bit JVM, otherwise you'll encounter this problem.
2. As explained here, you need to edit the start script (hermes.sh or .bat) to add the following JVM args:
-Dorg.xml.sax.parser=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl

Also, in case you haven't guessed, the download is an executable jar. You run it like this:
java -jar hermes-installer-1.14.jar
On Windows, you need to run it as administrator, and the only way I know to do that is to start the DOS prompt as administrator and then execute the above command.

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Hermes works, but no longer maintained

Hermes works, but no longer maintained

Some tips on getting started