Re: Ant build in Eclipse fails with ClassCastException

From: Shrisha Radhakrishna (shrish..ffigent.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 02:26:01 EDT

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    Hi Ulrich,
    After much hair pulling, I found out that it was my CLASSPATH setting in my
    .bash_profile. Didn't strike me that this would be the problem; but, all is
    well now.

    Thanks for your help.

    --Shrisha

    > From: Ulrich Köster <ulric..bjectstyle.org>
    > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:14:04 +0200
    > To: Shrisha Radhakrishna <shrish..ffigent.com>
    > Cc: <woproject-de..bjectstyle.org>
    > Subject: Re: Ant build in Eclipse fails with ClassCastException
    >
    > Hi Shrisha,
    >
    > please verify that the entries under Windows->Preferences->Ant->Runtime
    > are correct. Ther should point to ant.jar and optional.jar.
    >
    > Sometimes jars contain more then expected. ReportMill for instance
    > comes with xerces.
    >
    > Ulrich
    >
    > On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003, at 16:14 Uhr, Shrisha Radhakrishna wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Ulrich,
    >>
    >> I did. I only have a few non-XML jars in my ext directory. I also
    >> checked
    >> the System ext directory; nothing there either.
    >>
    >> As I said, now that I don't have any XML related jars in ext, I now get
    >> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/SAXException
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >> Shrisha
    >>
    >>> From: Ulrich Köster <ulric..bjectstyle.org>
    >>> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:28:48 +0200
    >>> To: Shrisha Radhakrishna <shrish..ffigent.com>
    >>> Cc: <woproject-de..bjectstyle.org>
    >>> Subject: Re: Ant build in Eclipse fails with ClassCastException
    >>>
    >>> Hi Shrisha,
    >>>
    >>> could you remove all xml stuff from the extension folder.
    >>>
    >>> Ulrich
    >>>
    >>> On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003, at 19:59 Uhr, Shrisha Radhakrishna wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Hi Ulrich,
    >>>>
    >>>> I first tried without jdom.jar in /Library/Java/Extensions. It
    >>>> complained
    >>>> of:
    >>>> BUILD FAILED: Unable to load default ProjectHelper due to
    >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/SAXException
    >>>>
    >>>> Now, if I rmeove jdom.jar I get a ClassCastException.
    >>>>
    >>>> BTW, you helped me figure out earlier that presence of xerces.jar in
    >>>> /Library/Java/Extensions was preventing Eclipse from even coming up.
    >>>>
    >>>> Thanks,
    >>>> Shrisha
    >>>>
    >>>>> From: Ulrich Köster <ulric..bjectstyle.org>
    >>>>> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:59:54 +0200
    >>>>> To: Shrisha Radhakrishna <shrish..ffigent.com>
    >>>>> Cc: <woproject-de..bjectstyle.org>
    >>>>> Subject: Re: Ant build in Eclipse fails with ClassCastException
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Hi Shrisha,
    >>>>>
    >>>>> this seems to be version mismatch. Remove xerces, jdom and other xml
    >>>>> stuff from the classpath. Take a look in extension foldes of the
    >>>>> jvm.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Ulrich
    >>>>> On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003, at 18:39 Uhr, Shrisha Radhakrishna
    >>>>> wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>>> Hi,
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> This is my first attempt at getting my WOApp to build (and run) in
    >>>>>> Eclipse.
    >>>>>> When I run ant, it aborts with:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> BUILD FAILED: java.lang.ClassCastException:
    >>>>>> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> I'm using Eclipse 2.1.1 and WOLips 1.0.4.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Any ideas what I might be missing? I do see xerces.jar installed
    >>>>>> in
    >>>>>> the
    >>>>>> plugins directory. Some kind of version mismatch?
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Thanks,
    >>>>>> Shrisha
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>
    >

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