Thank you all. I went with Option 3 since the problem didn't seem to be bubbling into our Dev environment and I am only seeing it on my local box. For completness sake, I did notice that the line d.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread.getContex > > tClassLoader())
should be Thread.currentThread(), but again thank you very much for the help. Michael On 4/14/06, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > I think James is probably right. > > By default, Digester will look for classes using the same Classloader > that loaded the Digester class. This means that if the > commons-digester.jar file is in some container-level dir (rather than in > WEB-INF/lib or similar) then it can't see that class. > > Option 1: put commons-digester.jar in the WEB-INF/lib (or equivalent) of > your project. This is the cleanest solution, but it does require that > "child-first" classloading is selected. > > Option 2: Tell digester to use the context classloader: > Digester d = new Digester(); > d.setUseContextClassLoader(true); > > Option 3: Set the classloader explicitly: > Digester d = new Digester(); > d.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread.getContextClassLoader()) > // this is equivalent to the above, assuming that the current > // class is from the webapp/ejb > // d.setClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader()); > > Regards, > > Simon > > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:42 -0500, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > That line of code appears to be working properly. I do not get a > > ClassNotFoundException on the call to the below code. Any thoughts on > why > > this might be occurring? More information on my environment > > > > IBM JDK 1.3 WebSphere 5.0 > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > > On 4/14/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Try this: > > > > > > Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass( > > > "mycompany.service.ups.dto.UPSResponseDTO" ) > > > > > > Digester, by default, uses the thread context classloader. So, if it > > > can't > > > find the class, then Digester can't instantiate it. You can > optionally > > > tell > > > Digester what classloader to use by calling setClassLoader(). Hope > that > > > helps! > > > > > > James > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:49 PM > > > To: commons-user@jakarta.apache.org > > > Subject: ClassNotFound [digester] > > > > > > Hello, > > > I am working with digester and when executing this line of code > > > > > > upsResponseDTO = xmlDigester.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream( > > > upsResponse.getBytes())); > > > > > > I get a ClassNotFoundException in digester > > > > > > org.apache.commons.digester.Digester TRAS0014I: The following > exception > > > was > > > logged java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > > > mycompany.service.ups.dto.UPSResponseDTO > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java(Compiled > > > Code)) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java(Compiled > Code)) > > > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java > (Compiled > > > Code)) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java(Compiled > Code)) > > > at org.apache.commons.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin( > > > ObjectCreateRule.java:204) > > > at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:152) > > > at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java > > > :1286) > > > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement( > > > AbstractSAXParser.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.startElement( > > > XMLNamespaceBinder.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement( > > > XMLDTDValidator.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at > > > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement > ( > > > XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at > > > > > > > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElem > > > entHook > > > (XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:929) > > > at > > > > > > > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc > > > her.dispatch > > > (XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument( > > > XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java(Compiled Code)) > > > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse( > > > StandardParserConfiguration.java:525) > > > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse( > > > StandardParserConfiguration.java:581) > > > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147) > > > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse( > > > AbstractSAXParser.java:1158) > > > at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1591) > > > at mycompany.service.ups.client.UPSXmlDigester.parse( > > > UPSXmlDigester.java > > > :84) > > > > > > > > > I can execute the following line in the same JVM instance with no > > > problems. > > > > > > UPSResponseDTO upsRp = new UPSResponseDTO(); > > > > > > I have verified that the import is the same as the ClassNotFound > > > > > > import mycompany.service.ups.dto.UPSResponseDTO; > > > > > > Is it possible that digester uses a different classpath or classloaded > for > > > the classloading it does? I'm a little confused here (Actually very > > > confused) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > >
