Raymond,I fear that this isn't really a dom4j issue itself but a Java one. But saying this wouldn't help you much, so I'll try to point you in the right direction.
When you say that the dom4j jar is 'missing' from sitemapMigrator.jar, bear in mind that even if the jar file itself were somehow nested inside sitemapMigrator.jar, the class loader would ignore it. You would have to include all the classes of dom4j.jar individually, Java doesn't support nesting of jars within jars. Ant has a zipfileset with src attribute facility which may help you include just the dom4j classes, for example:
<zip destfile="sitemapMigrator.jar"> <fileset dir="sitemapMigrator/classes"/> <zipfileset src="lib/dom4j.jar"/> </zip>Personally, I wouldn't do this because you are merging two sets of classes together. Sometime in the future you might want to know the version of dom4j you were using when you did this step, or you might want to use another version of dom4j, and it would be somewhat more cumbersome to figure things out.
Back to your problem- Alternatively, it might be that dom4j.jar appears in the JRE installed on the Windows machine, or in the Eclipse classpath, but not in the JRE on the UNIX machine, and that might explain what you are seeing.
However, I wouldn't recommend relying on the presence of dom4j on your deployment machine but instead I would suggest you ship dom4j.jar separately, and include it in the classpath when you run your utility.
For example: java -classpath lib/sitemapMigrator.jar:lib/dom4j.jar <class name>If you really want to use the -jar method of launching your utility (and I don't really see much advantage to doing so on UNIX but anyhow), you should ship both jars separately and include a Class-Path entry in the MANIFEST.MF file inside sitemapMigrator.jar that links to dom4j.jar :-
From memory it would look a bit like this: Manifest-Version: 1.0 Class-Path: dom4j.jar Hope this helps. Malcolm Raymond Sebuwufu wrote:
Hi,I created a jar file using Eclipse running on windows, transferred it to a UNIX server and when I try to run it using the following command, I get the error after the line below:/usr/java/jdk5/bin/java -jar sitemapMigrator.jarException in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentExceptionI checked the ANT build script and I know the error is suggesting that the jar for dom4j is missing from sitemapMigrator.jar but looking at the script I can see that it should be included in the build.Does anyone know how to resolve this issue or have any idea what could be going wrong?Many thanks for your help in advance Raymond -------------------------------------------------------This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log filesfor problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
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