Get the latest installer from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hermesjms/files/ then run it:
java -jar hermes-installer.jar

Installation is very simple, just few screens: release notes, license agreement, installation path, components (here is only one actually), summary, files copying, shortcuts creation and installation finish.

To start HermesJMS run hermes.bat in your <installation_folder>\HermesJMS\bin. If you got error message “cannot find \bin\javaw”, make sure that you have JAVA_HOME system variable defined to your jre folder.

When Hermes started successfully, click on “Create new JMS session” button, preferences window will appear, select providers tab and right-clik on free space. Then press “Add Group” and enter group name. Right-click on “Library” and press “Add JAR(s)”. Look in <tibco_home>\ems\5.1\lib folder and select all .jar files there. Click “Open”, then let Hermes to scan jars for factories: press “Scan” button. Then press “Apply”. All libraries will be in the list like on my screenshot.

Go to “Sessions” tab and enter name for session: “My EMS” for example, then select “EMS” loader. Next step is select “com.tibco.tibjms. TibjmsConnectionFactory” class and “Tibco EMS” plugin. Order is very important: select loader, then class, then plugin. Right-click on free space in plugin section and press “Add property”. You have to enter all three properties: username, password and serverURL, do the same for Connection Factory, then press “OK” to save and close properties window.

Now we can connect Hermes to our EMS. Let it discover queues and topics, press “Discover queues and topics from the provider” button. Then confirm replacement of the current set of destinations and list will be updated. That’s all.

If you need more information: HermesJMS home.

This has been fixed in Hawk 4.8.1 Hotfix 3:

1-83ZKPM
In the Eventlog microagent, the logging events in the eventlog.out
file kept growing and could not be turned off. This has been fixed.

You can download this or latest hotfix from the TIBCO support ftp server as Hawk hotfixes are cumulative.
To install stop all Hawk services, then just copy these files from the hotfix archive and replace the ones that already exist:

• /hawk/bin/tibhawkhma.exe
• /hawk/lib/agent.jar
• /hawk/lib/console.jar

If you run 64bit Hawk, take /hawk/bin/tibhawkhma64.exe from archive and save it as /hawk/bin/tibhawkhma.exe

By the way, some other important things were fixed in the Hawk 4.8.1 Hotfix 3 and Hotfix 4, so please keep your Hawk agents updated.

On windows this configuration is stored in the registry. Just open regedit and modify three classpath strings under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Tibco Software\TIB/Hawk\<version>.

For TIBCO Rendezvous transport situation can be the same, if path to used jar <Tibco_Root>\tibrv\lib\tibrvj.jar; was changed.

About classpath and Hawk. In general, NoClassDefFoundError is a Java (JVM) error that occurs when a class needed to run a Java program cannot be found. Here are Hawk is Java program and classes (a set of dynamically loadable libraries that Java applications can call at runtime) in the jar files mentioned above. Classpath is an argument that tells the JVM where to look for user-defined classes and packages in Java programs.

On Unix in the startagent startup script for TIBCO Hawk Agent for example, you can find something like this:
# If EMS_ROOT is set, add EMS jars files.
if [ ! -z "$EMS_ROOT" ]; then
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$EMS_ROOT/clients/java/jms.jar"
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$EMS_ROOT/clients/java/tibjms.jar"
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$EMS_ROOT/clients/java/tibrvjms.jar"
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$EMS_ROOT/clients/java/tibcrypt.jar"
fi
# Add jar files for RV.
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$RV_ROOT/lib/tibrvj.jar"
# Add existing CLASSPATH environment variable to class path.
JARFILE="$JARFILE:$CLASSPATH"


Here are the same classes and classpath variable. So, please keep in mind this.