Our application uses XML data exchange wrapped into HTTP.
It is handled by a servlet running under Orion and doing its own XML parsing and
generating.
We are using pretty convenient XML API (Jdom ) from http://www.jdom.org which I
highly recommend.
The jdom.jar bundle comes with the latest (?) xerces.jar which I also copied
into /Orion/lib directory.
My standalone code worked fine, but after I placed it into servlet it did throw
NoSuchMethodException complaining at some xerces code.
Apparently Orion's classloader uses xerces.jar from the Orion root directory
prior to the one placed in Orion/lib directory.
Everything works fine after I replaced the old xerces.jar in the Orion root
directory with the new one which came with jdom.jar bundle.
I don't like that hack because it's an alteration to Orion distribution and hell
knows what side effects it may cause.
So, my question are :
Is there any way to force servlet in using certain library if there is some
naming conflict with the one in Orion root ?
Orion team, are you going to update xerces.jar in distribution ? Does it involve
any licensing issue ?
Thanks
~boris
