I wish I got an email to alert me when new posts were added to this thread...
Anyway, I downloaded the Jar and had the following experience.
When I clicked on it, nothing happened at all. I brought up Task manager, and Java wasn't even executed... I don't get that much at all. The icon was Java, if I right-click and select "Open with" it wants to open it with Java SE Runtime, and if I select "Ok" to let that happen, it doesn't do anything. No .minion directory is created.
So, I went to a command line, and tried to execute the Jar from there manually. Nothing happened. Then I tried "java -jar Minion-jfx.jar" and finally at least I got something back, so I wasn't just crazy and somehow not able to execute a java program...
Here's what happened in the command line, including the first "null" attempt at executing the Jar directly.
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Eric>cd \Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion
C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is E8BF-103A
Directory of C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion
03/01/2015 10:22 AM <DIR> .
03/01/2015 10:22 AM <DIR> ..
03/01/2015 10:22 AM <DIR> lib
03/01/2015 10:22 AM 678,127 Minion-jfx.jar
1 File(s) 678,127 bytes
3 Dir(s) 16,324,083,712 bytes free
C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion>Minion-jfx.jar
C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion>java Minion-jfx.jar
Error: Could not find or load main class Minion-jfx.jar
C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion>java -jar Minion-jfx.jar
Exception in Preloader start method
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflec*****thod.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(Unk
nown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(Unknown Sou
rce)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflec*****thod.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Preloader start method
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(Unknown So
urce)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$147(
Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$$Lambda$58/752848266.run(Unkn
own Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected IOException while starting JUn
ique/Server for id "com.zam.minion.MinionPreloader"
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.Server.start(Unknown Source)
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.acquireLock(Unknown Source)
at com.zam.minion.MinionPreloader.start(MinionPreloader.java:40)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$151
(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$$Lambda$60/506854615.run(Unkn
own Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$166(Unknown
Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$45/584634336.run(Unkn
own Source)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$164(Unknown Sourc
e)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$47/1353688761.run(Unk
nown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$165(Unknown S
ource)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$46/501263526.run(Unkn
own Source)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$null$141(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$$Lambda$37/96639997.run(Unknown S
ource)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: JVM_Bind
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.bind0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
... 17 more
Exception running application com.zam.minion.Minion
Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.NullPointerException
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.Server.stop(Unknown Source)
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.releaseLock(Unknown Source)
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.access$300(Unknown Source)
at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique$ShutdownHook.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
C:\Users\Eric\Downloads\Minion>
Hopefully that helps!