Put the new commons configuration jar first in the classpath or, if you don't have control of what goes first (such as when arbitrary jars are loaded from a lib directory, such as in WEB-INF/lib in a webapp), then try renaming the newer commons configuration jar to come, alphabetically, first. Finally, you might try simply opening the jar file in some Zip utility and deleting the offending packages (or extract and re-jar with only the packages you want). They shouldn't be packing it up in their own jar anyway unless they wrap the package up in their own package namespace.
Jake At 10:20 AM 12/28/2005 -0600, you wrote: >Oliver, > >I have finally found out what was causing me to pick up old classes - a >vendor package I use, has an old version of Configuration package >embedded in it! What a pain!!! > >My code works great now but the vendor stuff doesn't because they are >calling org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalXMLConfiguration >with the old initProperties method (without the boolean elemRefs >parameter). > >Can you think of an easy way around this? Is there a way this class can >be made backwards compatible? > >Regards >Bill > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Oliver Heger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:52 AM >To: Jakarta Commons Users List >Subject: Re: XMLConfiguration load problem - External Entity not found > >William Evans wrote: > >>Yes, I did check there. I even did a search for all occurences on my >>machine. I assure you that I have double-checked several times. I can >>only infer that the incompatibility is in the 1.2 jar itself. Are you >>certain this is not the case? >> >>Regards >>Bill >> >> >> >To be sure I downloaded the 1.2 jar again (both from ibiblio and from >the main download site) and even decompiled the affected classes. They >are correct. > >I have no more ideas what could cause you such a trouble. Perhaps you >can try building 1.2 from source (see >http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/building.html). I wonder >if this will work. > >Oliver > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
