I am able to successfully test my class using dom4j on my workstation  (JRE
1.3.1).  When I move it to where I need it to run  (Unix System Services on
OS/390 - java version 1.1.8 ) and try to run it, I get the following:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.Class: method
forName(Ljava/lang/String;ZLjava/lang/ClassLoader;)Ljava/lang/Class; not
found
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXHelper.classNameAvailable(SAXHelper.java:130)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXHelper.createXMLReaderViaJAXP(SAXHelper.java:89)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXHelper.createXMLReader(SAXHelper.java:65)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.createXMLReader(SAXReader.java:574)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.getXMLReader(SAXReader.java:457)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:287)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:229)
        at com.mycompany.xxx.MyClass.getSampleRequest(MyClass.java:99)
        at com.mycompany.xxx.MyClass.main(MyClass.java:70)

The getSampleRequest method looks something like this...

          SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
          System.err.println("reading msg");
          Document doc = reader.read( "http://myserver/myxmlfile.xml"; );
          return doc.asXML();

I am not only a neophyte when it comes to dom4j but to java as well  I am
sure I am doing something stupid.  But I'm not sure where to start looking.

Thanks in advance for any help.

John


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