At 10:56 12/4/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> blackdown JVM aswell as IBMs ones now ship with jars that will fubar >> ant > >They do? I was just about to install newer VMs, what's the deal?
They "help" you by preinstalling jars in ext/ path. Unfortunately these are xml jars (interfaces/implementations) - which of course cause half you servers to fall down and other tools like ant. The problem basically is that users are not aware that incompatible DOM/SAX/JAXP jars are loaded as they are not on classpath. That sends em scratching their head for ages trying to figure out all these wierd errors. You would think that the vendors would have a little bit of a clue and look at similar events in history of computing ... dll hell, library hell, elc mayhem. Oh well ;( Guess we'll have to fix it with CJAN ;) Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
