> The implication appears to be that Xerces is just not being
> found, unless it means that Xerces 1.4.2 has dropped the
> framework.Version.fVersion system..so I just downloaded
> Xerces 1.4.2 (source) and looked, and am not surprised because
> it's still there. My suspicion is that the classpath you
> tried to set up is not the one you're getting, as happens
> all too often to people on this list.
Just a thought. I have started putting shared things like xerces.jar,
mail.jar, etc. in the "extensions" directory. On Windows this is
"jre\lib\ext", in two locations the jdk home and "program files\javasoft".
This avoids some of the classpath annoyances and makes sure things like
xerces get loaded and get loaded first. I don't think I could put soap.jar
there because then it could not find the deployed services file. I highly
recommend this approach.
Could there be something in the "extensions" directory. It does not show up
in the classpath, but stuff there will get loaded first.
Rick Hansen
