Hi there
good news and bad news -
I have found the reason why the NoSuchMethodException is being thrown -
I first dug out the source of the Avalon class that was throwing the
exception,
to find out what method was being expected.
Here is the 'offending' method, which is found in the class
org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.DefaultConfigurationBuilder
(inside Avalon version 4.1.2, which is used in Cocoon 2.0.2):
public DefaultConfigurationBuilder( final boolean enableNamespaces )
{
//yaya the bugs with some compilers and final variables ..
try
{
final SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory =
SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
if ( enableNamespaces )
{
saxParserFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
}
final SAXParser saxParser = saxParserFactory.newSAXParser();
this.setParser(saxParser.getXMLReader()); <--- THE PROBLEM
}
catch( final Exception se )
{
throw new Error( "Unable to setup SAX parser" + se );
}
}
Note that the class expects there to be a method 'getXMLReader' available in
the SAXParser object (javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser) - this is logical,
because in
the version of Xerces Cocoon was built against, this method exists.
I then looked at the structure of the SAXParser class that Weblogic 6.0 SP2
uses, and found out that there is no 'getXMLReader' method!!!
So who is to blame?
Well, the offender is BEA - their JAXP API is broken, because it does
not comply with the defacto standard, the one in the Java 1.4.0 API -
whereas
Avalon itself is completely justified in expecting the getXMLReader
method, because it *should* be there according to Sun's API docs.
Oh well, I'll have to work out how to bypass BEA's XML crud until a new
service pack comes out for 6.0, I guess.... pffff....
Thanks to all the folks who tried to help me with my problem :)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Please check that your question has not already been answered in the
FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html>
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
