6 Replies Latest reply on Aug 18, 2009 5:09 PM by PhHein

JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

807580 May 14, 2007 11:57 AM

Hi Guys,
while moving to JAVA 6, I encoutered some problems that might be related to compatibility issues between JAVA 6, Castor and Xerces.

The jars am already using and suspecting their compatibility issues with JAVA 6 are:
xercesImpl.jar, castor-0.9.9.1-common.jar, and castor-0.9.9.1-xml.jar.
While trying to marshall my application objects using castor (The thing that was working just fine with JAVA 5) I got the following exception:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl.getXmlStandalone()Z

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.DOM2TO.setDocumentInfo(DOM2TO.java:373)

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.DOM2TO.parse(DOM2TO.java:127)

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.DOM2TO.parse(DOM2TO.java:94)

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(TransformerImpl.java:663)

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:709)

            at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:313)

So I thought to post this issue here and see if I can get some help from anyone of you out there.

Thanks a bunch,

Rawad.

1. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

807580 May 14, 2007 12:29 PM (in response to 807580)

Your suspicions are well founded.

For one, Xerces doesn't support Java 6 yet.

The general rule here is to double-check if the libs that you're using are up-to-date with the newer jdk you want to use, before making the actual shift of Java version.
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2. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

807580 May 14, 2007 1:16 PM (in response to 807580)

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

For one, Xerces doesn't support Java 6 yet.
what should I do then ? Do u know any replacement for Xerces compatible with JAVA 6 ?

Thanks,

Rawad.
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3. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

807580 May 14, 2007 1:22 PM (in response to 807580)

For one, Xerces doesn't support Java 6 yet.
what should I do then ? Do u know any replacement for
Xerces compatible with JAVA 6 ?
No. The reasonable thing to do right now is to revert to Java 5...
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4. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

807580 Aug 18, 2009 5:03 PM (in response to 807580)

I have also faced this same issue ..

following can be resolve this issue for you

In the begining of the application set the following factory.

System.setProperty("javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory","com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImp");

DocumentImpl is refered from the package org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl instead of com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DocumentImpl

org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl.getXmlStandalone()Z
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.DOM2TO.setDocumentInfo(DOM2TO.java:373)

Kindly post if you face any problem with this solution

Regards,
Piyush
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5. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

796447 Aug 18, 2009 5:08 PM (in response to 807580)

vjpiyush wrote:
I have also faced this same issue ..

following can be resolve this issue for you
...
I'm sure after over *2 years* the OP can finally put this to rest now that you've come to save the day.

Please stop resurrecting long-dead topics.
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6. Re: JAVA 6 compatibility with Castor and Xerces

PhHein Aug 18, 2009 5:09 PM (in response to 807580)

Thanks for the contribution, but please don't revive long dead threads. Locking.
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