Re: Nightmarish XML Classloader issue with Tomcat
flarosa wrote:
Hi,
I'm dealing with an unknown version of Tomcat running under JDK 1.6.
While I'm sure I can figure out what version of Tomcat I have,
altering it is not an option because I am a developer in a large
organization and the code I write must deploy correctly on many other
machines, all of which are running the same instance of Tomcat. I am
not able to change this environment.
I wrote some XML parsing code that uses the normal classes defined in
JDK 1.6, such as javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory, etc. When I
compile the code against JDK 1.6 it seems fine, but when I deploy it
to Tomcat I get java.lang.NoSuchMethod errors when calling functions
such as Node.getTextContent().
My guess is that the classpath in Tomcat contains some pre-JDK 1.4
definition of the javax.xml classes that don't conform to what I'm
compiling against. I have never done XML parsing with anything less
than JDK 1.4 or anything other than the interfaces provided by Sun in
the standard JDKs. So I have no idea what it is I'm dealing with here.
How can I change my source code in such a way that I get the JDK 1.6
classes instead of these old versions from Tomcat?
Assuming that Tomcat is running under Java 1.6 (if not, there's no hope of
finding the 1.6 classes), what's happening is that the logic in
DocumentBulderFactory.newInstance() that looks for a DocumentBulderFactory
implementation isn't finding the implementation you're expecting. See its
javadoc for how it finds one. You can either
1. Modify your application so that you one you're expecting is found first,
or
2. Use the one you want explicitly instead of going through
DocumentBulderFactory.newInstance()
Note that there are some issues with doing 1. For instance, setting a
system property will affect every application in Tomcat, since system
properties are JDK-wide, so that's not a good idea.
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