Thanks for the tip, Gulli! I put xerces.jar in
$BEA_HOME/jdk130/jre/lib/ext, restarted the server, and the application
runs fine now. I dunno how that will fly with my customer but I'll pass it
on. If they have a problem with the approach, we'll get hold of their BEA
tech support POC for resolution.
At 20:14 8/6/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Thad,
>
>I have no experience with Weblogic in particular,
>but it's a known phenomenon that servlet engines
>sometimes botch up their custom classloaders,
>especially with respect to loading non-class stuff
>(i.e. resources, such as HTMLEntities.res) ... uh,
>regardless of their reputation! :) You could try
>moving the xerces.jar from your servlet lib
>directory to the servlet engine's lib directory,
>or vice versa if it's there already, so that it's
>being loaded by another classloader instance. In
>a pinch you could also try loading it as a Java
>extension, i.e. from your JVM's lib/ext directory.
>
>Cheers,
>
> - Gulli
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thad Humphries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 6. agust 2001 19:40
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Xerces and WebLogic
>
>
>We have an application that we have developed with Apache and Tomcat
>(current versions 1.3.20 and 3.2.2 respectively). Among other things, the
>application allows for querying a database and returning the result set in
>XML, filterable with XSLT. We are using Xerces 1.4.2 and Xalan 1.2.3.
>
>All works fine with Apache-Tomcat on Linux and Solaris; with IIS-Tomcat on
>NT; and IIS-JRun 3.1 on NT. Based on a customer's request, I've been
>trying it out with WebLogic 6.0 (SP2) on Solaris. In this environment,
>Xerces fails.
>
>The error I am seeing comes from inside Xerces when my servlet is
>attempting to build the query result XML:
>
>...
><Aug 6, 2001 3:32:42 PM EDT> <Error> <HTTP>
><[WebAppServletContext(4818707,emma3)] Servlet failed with Exception
>java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: java.lang.RuntimeException: SER003
>The resource [HTMLEntities.res] could not load: java.lang.RuntimeException:
>SER003 The resource [HTMLEntities.res] could not be found.
>HTMLEntities.res
>HTMLEntities.res java.lang.RuntimeException: SER003 The resource
>[HTMLEntities.res] could not be found.
>HTMLEntities.res
> at org.apache.xml.serialize.HTMLdtd.initialize(HTMLdtd.java:418)
> at org.apache.xml.serialize.HTMLdtd.<clinit>(HTMLdtd.java:560)
> at
>org.apache.xml.serialize.HTMLSerializer.startElement(HTMLSerializer.java:529
>)
>...
>
>I looking at the source code to HTMLdtd.java, it seems that
>HTMLEntities.res is being requested correctly. HTMLEntities.res is in the
>JAR file and certainly it works in enough environments that one would
>expect it to work in WebLogic (*especially* given it's Rolls Royce
>reputation).
>
>Does anyone have any experience with WebLogic and Xerces? Any ideas how I
>might resolve this problem or whom to turn to?
>
>Thanks!
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