Kevin, thanks for the response. My underestanding was that the xalan, xerces and jaxp are all roled into the JDK 1.5 and hence no need for me to add them to the classpath.
from 1.5 release notes at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/xml/jaxp/ReleaseNotes_150.html#versions " Component Versions These versions of the relevant technologies have been incorporated into the reference implementation. * Xerces version 2.6.2 + (Xerces version 2.6.2 with controlled bug fixes) * XSLTC version 2.6.0 + (XSLTC version 2.6.0 , with controlled bug fixes, based on the Xalan 2.6.0 release) " so thats where I am comming from. I unjared the rt.jar and noticed bunch of xalan and xerces packages prefixed with com/sun/.... so I assumed that they have roled them into rt.jar that is part of the JDK 1.5 the echo $CLASSPATH for JDK 1.4 is empty and hence there are no extra jars related to xalan/xerces that are in the classpath as well and yet that works. running the command in jdk 1.4.2 is successfull as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/bin] ./java org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck #---- BEGIN writeEnvironmentReport($Revision: 1.14 $): Useful stuff found: ---- version.DOM.draftlevel=2.0fd java.class.path=. version.JAXP=1.1 java.ext.dirs=/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/ext version.xerces2=not-present version.xerces1=not-present version.xalan2_2=Xalan Java 2.4.1 version.xalan1=not-present version.ant=not-present java.version=1.4.2_06 version.DOM=2.0 version.crimson=present-unknown-version sun.boot.class.path=/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/rt.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/i18n.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/jce.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/classes version.SAX=2.0 version.xalan2x=Xalan Java 2.4.1 #----- END writeEnvironmentReport: Useful properties found: ----- # YAHOO! Your environment seems to be OK. running the command in Jdk 1.5 is not successfull: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin] java org.apache.xalan.internal.xslt.EnvironmentCheck Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xalan/internal/xslt/EnvironmentCheck I can put the xalan.jar and et al in the classpath and try but I was hoping I could simply use what is in JDK. help. On 6/1/06, Kevin Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi John, I'm new to Xalan, but it sounds like your classpath is different for your two JDKs. EnvironmentCheck works for me using JDK 1.5. You need to have xalan.jar (or xsltc.jar), serializer.jar, xml-apis.jar, and xercesImpl.jar on your classpath. If you're not using the -cp or -classpath option to pass the appropriate classpath to the JVM, then it comes from the CLASSPATH environment variable. Check the value of it with: echo $CLASSPATH You'll need to have the actual .jar files in the classpath; just using the directory that contains them will not work. > checking the jdk rt.jar of jdk1.5 where xalan package resides I see > the EnvironmentCheck utility class sits in: > com/sun/org/apache/xalan/internal/xslt/EnvironmentCheck.class I'm not sure what this class is for, but it is not the class you want. Because it's in rt.jar, the JVM can always find it, but it doesn't have a main() method. Hope this helps, -Kevin
