I really cant figure out why you are getting that error (probably due to an ant+xerces issue).. however, i doubt if you can get POI to compile under JDK1.1. POI is ususally developed with 1.2+ in mind.
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, I am fairly new to Java. Ant is a black box/hole... I would like to use > POI HSSF to process speadsheets using Java on a Lotus Domno R5 server (JVM > 1.1.8). At present I use Jacob (Java-COM Bridge http://danadler.com/jacob/ > ). It works but I am concerned about possible memory leaks and performance > when handling a queue of 100's of speadsheets. I couldn't find a Java 1.1 > binary so I d/led the source and tried to build my own (hoping POI doesn't > use Java 2 specific classes). > > If I execute the build batch file under Win 98 I get > > ".;C:\JDK\lib\classes.zip;C:\JDK\CLASSES;C:\JACOB;. > \lib\endorsed\XALAN-~1.JAR;.\lib\endorsed\XERCES~1.JAR;. > \lib\endorsed\XML-APIS.JAR" > Error loading class org/apache/tools/ant/Main: Bad major version number > > I think the "Bad major"is because the jar files Poi\lib are compiled with > Java 2. Domino ships with a version of Xerces & Xalan (LotusXSL) which I > have copied to \Poi and <JDK>\classes even renaming Xerces & Xalan to > X...2.0.0.jar . If I try running Ant from the Poi directory I get > > BUILD FAILED > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/SAXParseException > at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelperImpl.parse(Compiled > Code) > at > org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.configureProject(ProjectHelper.java:117) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Compiled Code) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Compiled Code) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235) > > Total time: 0 seconds > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/SAXParseException > at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelperImpl.parse(Compiled > Code) > at > org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.configureProject(ProjectHelper.java:117) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Compiled Code) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Compiled Code) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235) > org/xml/sax/SAXParseException > > The SAXParseException class is listed in the API docs so I don't understand > why it barfs with that error. > > Can someone point me to a resource/FAQ where I can learn how to work this > out for myself in future? > > I guess I might need to recompile the other .jars in \Poi\lib too. Isn't > there an archive of these things somewhere? > > TIA. > > Gerry King > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
