BW engine fails to start with "Failed to find the start class, "com.tibco.pe.PEMain" - bad classpath" error.

BW engine fails to start with "Failed to find the start class, "com.tibco.pe.PEMain" - bad classpath" error.

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Article ID: KB0094177

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Products Versions
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks -
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Description

Description:
After installing the 64-bit binary for BW, when the bwengine is started from console, the following error may be noticed:
"Failed to find the start class, "com.tibco.pe.PEMain" - bad classpath" error.
Symptoms:
In bwengine.log:

Failed to find the start class, "com.tibco.pe.PEMain" - bad classpath? unable to find the start class

In bwengine.err:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.tibco.pe.PEMain
Cause:
The bwengine.exe under <TIBCO_HOME>/5.x/bin is corrupted.

Issue/Introduction

BW engine fails to start with "Failed to find the start class, "com.tibco.pe.PEMain" - bad classpath" error.

Resolution

Replace bwengine.exe under <TIBCO_HOME>/5.x/bin with wrap64.exe from <TIBCO_HOME>/tra/5.x/bin and rename wrap64.exe as bwengine.exe.