Jack, The point is that the entire argument behind solving the issue by re-adding xml-apis to the WAR is flawed. Here is why:
1) [quote] IBM has told us that it comes down to the fact that there are references to the org.w3c.dom classes in the Xerces library. These were resolved to the classes in the xml-apis JAR file before but now are being loaded by the JVM since they don't exist in the WAR. This causes the VerifyError, a subclass of LinkageError. [/quote] That is incorrect because the last statement is not a valid conclusion of the first two statements. You only get this kind of linkage error if the same class is loaded by two different class loaders and there is code where this causes a mismatch between what the class verifier in the JVM sees (two distinct classes) and what the Java compiler sees (one class). Therefore the absence of the JAR that contains the org.w3c.dom classes can't explain the linkage error. Instead, the correct explanation is the presence of some of the org.w3c.dom classes in the XmlBeans JAR. 2) Re-adding the xml-apis JAR has the effect that all org.w3c.dom classes are now loaded from the WAR class loader. While this may solve the immediate problem, it is likely to cause other problems later. In fact, the APIs in xml-apis are completely self-contained in the sense that they don't have any dependencies except on classes in java.*. This implies that if you remove them completely from the WAR (including the duplicates in the XmlBeans JAR), you will never again encounter a class loader issue involving these classes. On the other hand, if you include them in the WAR, you will run into class loader issues as soon as you use an API or a library that depends on DOM (or another API included in xml-apis, such as SAX and JAXP) and that is not loaded from the WAR, but from the JRE or the server runtime. To illustrate this, consider the following: Axis2 1.5.x only contains Xerces because Woden has a hard dependency on Xerces. This was solved in Axis2 1.6.x and Xerces is no longer included. If you work around the issue caused by XmlBeans by adding xml-apis to the WAR, then you would also have to add Xerces again. Finally, to answer your questions about the three options: - Option 1 reproducibly solves the problem on WAS 7.0, but I don't really know why. Therefore I'm not surprised that things are different with WAS 6.1 or with a JVM running on a different platform. Anyway I kept this option because I want that users upgrade to a recent fix pack before reporting issues (to make debugging easier). - Regarding option 2, if you use the XmlBeans data binding, then obviously that option is not applicable. - Option 3 is the only option that is really guaranteed to solve the issue. Andreas On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 22:51, Jack Sprat <rexclaim...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Andreas, > Thanks again for the reply. > Please don't take my response the wrong way. I am only trying to solve a > very difficult problem. I did not reject the proposed solutions in the > "Known Issues" section. To answer your question on the 3 options. > 1) We are current on the fix pack so there is nothing we can change there. > 2) I was asking a question here. Can I remove the xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar file > if I am using XML Beans binding? Please let me know. > 3) I have not tried repackaging the Xmlbeans JAR file yet. None of the > offending classes are in there so it does not appear to be the problem. I'm > certainly willing to try but it makes for a more complicated deployment. > > I was hoping to get my question to #2 above answered. I also want to know > why the xml-apis.jar file was removed. Including the JAR file would seem to > avoid class loading issues. It looks like Xerces depend on the XML APIs in > the spec. and relying on the JVM could lead to the problems we are seeing. > > We asked IBM for help since we thought it was a bug on their end. We're > using Websphere on the IBM i (formerly AS/400) and IBM knows that best. > We've used Axis2 here for a few years and want to stick with it. We're tied > to Websphere for the foreseeable future. > Thanks, > J > > ________________________________ > From: Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com> > To: java-user@axis.apache.org > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:15 PM > Subject: Re: XML APIs JAR > > Jack, > > If I understand this correctly, you are seeing exactly the problem > described in the "Known issues" section, but you reject the proposed > solution on the grounds that IBM has told you that this won't fix the > problem, and without actually having tested the solution... If for a > problem with Axis2 you trust IBM support more than the people who are > maintaining Axis2, then what are you still expecting from us? > > Andreas > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 19:10, Jack Sprat <rexclaim...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Thank you for the reply. >> Most of that article does not apply to us. The Websphere Web Service >> feature pack is not installed. The last paragraph entitled "Known Issues" >> matches our problem exactly. 3 options are given: >> 1) Upgrade to most current Websphere fix pack - We're on the most current >> fix pack so no upgrade can be done. >> 2) Remove the XmlBeans library. I assume this is the xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar >> file. - I don't think we can remove the XML Beans jar since we're using >> XML >> Beans binding. Is that right? >> >> 3) Remove the content from the org.w3c.dom package from the XmlBeans >> library. - Is this suggesting that the xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar be repackaged >> to >> exclude the 4 classes in the org.w3c.dom package? This will not fix the >> problem. See below.. >> >> We've had IBM dive deeply into this. The Xerces XML parser >> (xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar) includes the xml-apis. jar in its spec. Regardless >> of whether the JRE includes those classes, why wouldn't the Axis2 >> distribution include the JAR? >> >> IBM has told us that it comes down to the fact that there are references >> to >> the org.w3c.dom classes in the Xerces library. These were resolved to the >> classes in the xml-apis JAR file before but now are being loaded by the >> JVM >> since they don't exist in the WAR. This causes the VerifyError, a >> subclass >> of LinkageError. >> As noted in the article, the problem started with the >> org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl class. It has a dependency on the >> org.w3c.dom.Notation class. This was previously included in the >> xml-apis.jar file but is now missing. It gets loaded from the JVM instead >> and causes the Verify Error. >> >> What can I do to fix this problem? We can temporarily fix the problem by >> manually including the xml-apis-1.3.04.jar file in the WAR. I'd rather >> not >> do that. Can this JAR be re-added to the Axis2 distribution to ensure the >> classes are loaded correctly? >> >> Thanks. >> J >> >> >> On 11/24/2011 4:35 AM, Andreas Veithen wrote: >>> Axis2 requires Java 1.5 and in that version, all the APIs defined by >>> xml-apis are already included in the JRE. Therefore xml-apis is no >>> longer necessary. Also note that the fact that the problem disappears >>> after adding xml-apis to the WAR doesn't necessarily mean that the >>> removal of the JAR in Axis2 1.5.x is the cause of the problem. >>> >>> The difficulty with class loading issues is that there are so many >>> variables that it is virtually impossible to debug them from a >>> distance. The first thing you should do is to realign your setup with >>> the guidelines for deployment on WebSphere given in [1]. >>> >>> Andreas >>> >>> [1] >>> https://builds.apache.org/job/Axis2/site/docs/app_server.html#WebSphere >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 22:40, Jack Sprat<rexclaim...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> We have a situation in Websphere 6.1 where there is a class loading >>>> problem >>>> with an Axis2 1.5.2 web service. The class loading is set to >>>> PARENT_LAST >>>> on >>>> the web app. That is the first thing I always do with Axis2 web >>>> services >>>> running on Websphere. >>>> We've determined that the class loading problem comes from the fact that >>>> classes are missing that were in prior versions of Axis2. These were in >>>> the >>>> xml-apis-1.3.04.jar file in Axis2 version 1.4.1. The specific class >>>> causing >>>> the problem is org.w3c.dom.Notation. It is no longer present in the >>>> Axis2 >>>> 1.5.2 WAR and causes a linkage error. >>>> >>>> Manually adding the xml-apis-1.3.04.jar file from the Axis2 1.4.1 >>>> distribution to the Axis2 1.5.2 web application cures the problem. >>>> Why was this JAR removed in newer versions? How do I get around this >>>> error, >>>> apart from manually adding a JAR from a prior distribution? There must >>>> be a >>>> better way. >>>> >>>> Any guidance is appreciated. >>>> Thanks, >>>> J >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@axis.apache.org
