I have also come across the same issue when running junit tests in
ant. Setting fork to yes helps.

Is it the xml api's that are at issue or the ant class loader?
Is crimson one version of xml and xml-apis another?

Ta.
Stuart.

At 21:08 17/05/02 +0100, Ara Abrahamian wrote:

>We also had lots of problems with AntClassLoader in xdoclet. It's a
>super-messy piece of code. See below some of the thoughts (not mine,
>anyway) in this regard:
>
><problem-with-getProtectionDomain/etc-1.1/1.2>
>The correct approach is for ant's classloader to extend
>SecureClassLoader, and specify the correct defineClass method with the
>right CodeSource.
>I'm surprised and disgusted by the ugliness of ant's classloader. Using
>reflection to keep 1.1 compatibility is particularly ugly, and it also
>means that now it's that much harder to fix the codesource bug given the
>way the whole protectiondomain stuff is currently done in
>AntClassLoader. A more sensible approach would be to define two
>classloaders, a 1.1 and a 1.2 one, with a helper delegate class to hold
>common functionality.
></problem-with-getProtectionDomain/etc-1.1/1.2>
>
><problem-with-xml-validation>
>We had to do the same thing as XmlValidateTask to work with xml parser
>(class.forName/hardcoding). It throws LinkageException if you do normal
>jaxp style coding. It somehow became super-slow when classes where
>loaded with AntClassLoader's intervention instead of system class
>loader.
></problem-with-xml-validation>
>
>I hope you find some time to refactor it a bit :-)
>
>Ara.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 12:06 AM
>> To: Ant Developers List
>> Subject: FW: Problem with ANT classloader?
>>
>> Don't any of the ANT experts out there have any clue what's going on
>here?
>> --DD
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:07 PM
>> To: 'Ant Users List'
>> Subject: RE: Problem with ANT classloader?
>>
>> I'm not creating any class loader, just using Class.forName(). I used
>to
>> do
>> it Class.forName(classname, false, getSystemClassLoader()), but then
>when
>> run in-ant-process, this failed because I was running under the
>> AntClassLoader, not the system class loader (Does ant install it's
>class
>> locader as the Thread context class loader?). I changed my code to use
>the
>> same loader as the one that loaded the class that does the
>Class.forName
>> call (the AntCL in my case), and that's when the LinkageError crops
>in.
>>
>> Of course I run with fork="true" to turn around that, but it's just
>> slower.
>> I'd like to understand why I get this behavior in-ant-process!!!! --DD
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Atkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:02 PM
>> To: Ant Users List
>> Subject: Re: Problem with ANT classloader?
>>
>> i get different but similar problems:-
>> - doing XSLT transforms with extension elements in them
>> - get similar complaints but it's a SAX class that offends
>>
>> i think this is down to non-Ant code doing it's own class loading
>> - Ant has already loaded the class, client or 3rd party code then goes
>> and loads it again
>> - if in-process this changes the loaded class, so when it's next used
>> the JVM throws a LinkageError
>> - but i'm not sure so I'm going to read the lang spec again
>>
>> i've always simply used fork=true on the <javac> to get round these
>> troubles
>>
>> must have run it in-process?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:09 AM
>> To: '[email protected]'
>> Subject: Problem with ANT classloader?
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have a problem with ANT 1.4.1 running a Java class without forking
>that
>> does Class.forName calls. I include 3 outputs (while I'm at it, I also
>> include the build.xml which is simple) of the register target running
>with
>> fork="false" (FAILS), with fork="true" (SUCCEEDS), with fork="false"
>> (FAILS)
>> in ANT debug mode for the gory details. The Java program I'm using
>uses
>> the
>> DOM to load XML resource files. When running in-process with ANT, it
>> generates the following LinkageError:
>> java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking
>> org/w3c/dom/Document class
>> I'm running JDK 1.4 on Win2K, which now contains plenty of XML stuff.
>I
>> thus
>> checked %ANT_HOME%\lib to see if I didn't have duplicate XML stuff,
>and I
>> did (parser.jar, jaxp.jar, crimson.jar). I checked the JDK's rt.jar,
>and
>> it
>> seems to contain all the classes in these other jars, so I just plain
>> removed them from %ANT_HOME%\lib. ANT seems to work fine, except I
>still
>> get
>> the same linkage error. Isn't AntClassLoader properly delegating to
>it's
>> parent classloader, ultimately going down all the way to the bootstrap
>> class
>> loader to find the DOM's Document in rt.jar????
>> At this point, I'm stumped. ANT experts out there, please HELP.
>Regards,
>> --DD
>>
>> ========== build.xml ===========
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <project name="mowi" default="jar" basedir=".">
>>   <property environment="env" />
>>   <property name="lib"     location="lib" />
>>   <property name="classes" location="${lib}/classes" />
>>   <property name="jarfile"
>> location="${lib}/com_lgc_${ant.project.name}.jar"
>> />
>>   <path id="classpath-default">
>>     <pathelement location="${classes}" />
>>     <fileset dir="${lib}" includes="**/*.jar" />
>>     <fileset dir="${env.DS_HOME}" includes="**/*.jar, **/*.zip" />
>>   </path>
>>   <target name="init">
>>     <mkdir dir="${classes}" />
>>   </target>
>>   <target name="classes"
>>           depends="init"
>>           description="Compiles all Java sources">
>>     <javac srcdir="src"
>>            source="1.4"
>>            destdir="${classes}"
>>            deprecation="on"
>>            classpathref="classpath-default" />
>>   </target>
>>   <target name="register"
>>           depends="classes"
>>           description="Registers all Appworks components">
>>     <mkdir dir="${classes}/META-INF" />
>>     <java
>classname="com.lgc.infra.pres.services.RegistrationInfoCreator"
>>           fork="false">
>>       <classpath refid="classpath-default" />
>>       <sysproperty key="com.lgc.infra.pres.ignoreRegistrationInfo"
>>                    value="true" />
>>       <sysproperty key="reginfo.filename"
>>
>value="${classes}/META-INF/AppworksRegistration.xml" />
>>       <sysproperty key="reginfo.searchpath"
>>                    value="${classes}" />
>>     </java>
>>   </target>
>>   <target name="compile" depends="register" />
>>   <target name="jar"
>>           depends="compile"
>>           description="Jars up all classes into mowiai.jar">
>>     <jar jarfile="${jarfile}" basedir="${classes}" />
>>   </target>
>>   <target name="clean"
>>           description="Deletes Java classes and jar file">
>>     <delete dir="${classes}" quiet="true" />
>>     <delete file="${jarfile}" quiet="true" />
>>   </target>
>> </project>
>>
>> ========== fork="false" ===========
>> P:\com_lgc\acme>%DS_HOME%\tools\ant\bin\ant -emacs register
>> Buildfile: build.xml
>> init:
>> classes:
>> register:
>> Scanning searchpath for components to register...
>> Found 5 components (1406 ms)
>> BUILD FAILED
>> P:\com_lgc\acme\build.xml:39: java.lang.LinkageError: loader
>constraints
>> violated when linking org/w3c
>> /dom/Document class
>> Total time: 7 seconds
>> P:\com_lgc\acme>gvim build.xml
>>
>> ========== fork="true" ===========
>> P:\com_lgc\acme>%DS_HOME%\tools\ant\bin\ant -emacs register
>> Buildfile: build.xml
>> init:
>> classes:
>> register:
>> Scanning searchpath for components to register...
>> Found 5 components (1047 ms)
>> REGISTER SERVICE name  TetMeshAppletAdapter
>> RenderAction
>> REGISTER SERVICE class com.lgc.mowi.viz.acme.TetMeshAppletAdapter
>>
>> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>> Total time: 19 seconds
>> P:\com_lgc\acme>
>> ========== fork="false" -debug ===========
>> [snip]
>>
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