Experienced guys might laugh at my comments but just a couple of months 
ago, I went through the process that you are trying.

I used Eclipse as well.
I did not have a repository.xml so Jackrabbit creates one that works if 
it does not find a repository.xml. This is a nice touch for a beginner. 
You can tweak it later.

I am not sure what you mean by "Start the server"
The first hop program (Hop1) starts an embedded server. You can only 
have one server running at a time.

Which Hop did you die on?
Did you do anything NOT in the instructions? You just have to copy the 
code into a project and run it.

Ron

On 18/12/2012 1:00 PM, Pramod Talekar wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to JackRabbit and have downloaded the jackrabbit setup and the
> stand alone server.
> Currently, I'm trying to run the first hop program. Once I start the
> server, it creates the jackrabbit folder on my Win7 machine which had
> .LOCK and repository.xml file. After this, when I run the first hop
> program as is in Eclipse, I get an error ' could not create index on
> workspace.'
>
> Is there anything I need to change in the repository.xml or any other place ?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Pramod Talekar
>


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