When trying to build the Collada refinery, I got an error complaining about a missing manifest file (…/…/src/refinery/manifest.txt). There was indeed no manifest file (why?!) so I created one that has this in it:
I downloaded the refinery installer, installed with the “source” option, and built the refinery project with visual studio 2005. I’m using JDK 1.6.0_03 (as indicated in the manifest file). The exact error message is in my original post.
There’s something screwy if you don’t have manifest.txt in src/refinery. If you look at the folder here, you’ll see that the file does exist in that folder. It looks like it’s always been there.
You might want to try the latest code in SourceForge.