Unfortunately I'm not able to attach the video that demonstrates the problem, so here is the steps to reproduce:

1. Start the HermesJMS
2. Try to create a new session
3. The destinations for an existing session are displayed

Hi Colin,

Improperly set classpath seems to be the problem.
hermes.bat file tries to set quickfixj.jar in the classpath although there is quickfixj-all-1.5.0.jar in the lib directory.

When I have changed hermes.bat to look like this

{code}
...
:setOtherVars
set HERMES_LIBS=%HERMES_HOME%\lib
set HERMES_BIN=%HERMES_HOME%\bin
rem set JAXB=%HERMES_LIBS%\jaxb-api.jar
rem set JIDE=%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-action.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-common.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-components.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-dialogs.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-dock.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jide-grids.jar

rem set CLASSPATH=%JAXB%;%HERMES_LIBS%/jta-spec1_0_1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\xml-apis.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jms.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\relaxngDatatype.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jaas.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\activation.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-digester.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-codec-1.1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\log4j-1.2.15.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\j2ee.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-logging.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jlfgr-1_0.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-lang-2.1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\xercesImpl.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\namespace.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\xsdlib.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\datatips.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\derby.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-dbutils-1.0.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\ant.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\db2cc.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\hermes-selector.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jms-jmx.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\selector-1.1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\asm-all-4.0_RC1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\quickfixj-all-1.5.0.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jython.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\ArtTk.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\JyConsole.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\mina-core-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\slf4j-jdk14-1.6.1.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-collections.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\jsyntaxpane-0.9.1.jar
set CLASSPATH=%HERMES_LIBS%\*;
rem set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HERMES_LIBS%\hermes.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\cglib-nodep-2.2.2.jar;%HERMES_LIBS%\commons-beanutils.jar;%JIDE%;%HERMES_LIBS%\forms-1.3.0.jar
rem set CLASSPATH=%HERMES_LIBS%;%CLASSPATH%
..
{code}

everything starts to work fine.

So the following classpath configuration is enough for hermes to work fine under java 6
{code}
...
:setOtherVars
set HERMES_LIBS=%HERMES_HOME%\lib
set HERMES_BIN=%HERMES_HOME%\bin
set CLASSPATH=%HERMES_LIBS%\*;
..
{code}

I forgot to mention that exceptions (ClassNotFoundException, NoClassDefFoundError) were not displayed by hermes in this case and it were possible to find the error though the debugging.

The previous comments are invalid. I have attached the patch that fixes this issue.