We think you may be correct. Since this problem only occurred when the Apache web site went down, it was our first reaction in all the confusion. Initially, we also did not understand that IBatis validates from the jar at run time. It's not that we don't want to validate our IBatis sqlmaps. We would just prefer to do it locally. At this point where looking at a way to toggle validation on and off. In the event that Apache should go down again, we will simply turn off validation checking.
Thank you, very much, for your consideration and support in this matter.
