Yes, I had done that too. But I want to be able to only ship a WAR file for my app. I do not want to make changes to the standard Tomcat install. I can do this only in the configuration described below.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: RE: Xerces Jar > The jars in Tomcat4 are under common/lib. I replace the xerces.jar with my > jaxp.jar to get the newest parsers and stuffs. > > Bao-Ha Dam Bui > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S. Jude Medical, Inc > 651.765.1018 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Claude Montpetit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:41 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Xerces Jar > > Hi, > > My web app needs to use Xerces 2. So I placed the these JARs under > WEB-INF/lib. > > Is it normal that Tomcat still uses its own version of Xerces (which is 1.x) > when my servlet creates a SAXParser? > This happens when using Tomcat 4.0.*. > > (This causes us problems: The way the SAXParser reads the inputStream > differs between xerces 1.x and 2.x. In 1.x, when running JDK1.4, the parser > waits for all data to be read before calling the DefaultHandler. In Xerces > 2, the parser calls the DefaultHandler when the data comes in, which is what > we need.) > > I could go on and on testing many more combinaison of versions for JDK, > Xerces, Xalan and Tomcat but so far, the only thing that seems to work for > us is: > > Tomcat 4.0.4-b3-LE-jdk14 > jaxp-1.2-ea2 (which contains Xerces 2) > JDK 1.4 > > The reason for this email is mainly to get a confirmation of all this. Does > my conclusions make sense? > > .. standardizing on XML libraries across different third party products is > not an easy task... > > Claude > > > -- > 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]>
