John, Need to be careful with Windows - it puts a jre in the system directory, which is normally the first directory on your path. If you want to use a specific jre, the path to that jre needs to be in front of your system directory.
FWIW, steve John Fletcher wrote: > Solved the problem - > > Apparently calling "java" from the command line called a different jre (C > drive) than my main jre (D drive), even though the jre on the C drive was > not in my path, but the jre on the D drive was(!!). Wouldn't normally be an > issue, except that another java program I installed earlier had installed > its own parser in the lib\ext directory of the jre on the C drive, which was > being used instead of the xerces parser. I changed the JAVACMD variable to > point to the right jre, and voila. > > Thanks for the help. > > John Fletcher > Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. > 257 Market Square, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 3C6 > Tel: (250) 381.8130 Fax: (250) 381.8132 > www.latitudegeo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:38 AM > Subject: Re: Unable to start xindice > > > Hi Russ, > > > > The xerces parser (1.4.3) comes in the xindice\java\lib directory > > (xerces-1.4.3.jar). Should it be somewhere else as well? > > > > btw, for Amlan, using jdk 1.3.1 > > > > Thanks. > > > > John > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > Try installing the Xerces parser. > > > -- > > > Russ > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have just installed xindice, but cannot get startup to > > > > work. I am using: > > > <snip> > > > > When I run startup from c:\xindice, I get the following message after > > > > Xindice 1.0 (Birthday): > > > > Database: 'db' initializing > > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError > > > > at > > > > org.apache.xindice.xml.dom.DOMParser.getSAXParser(DOMParser.java:233) > > > > at > > > > org.apache.xindice.xml.dom.DOMParser.<init>(DOMParser.java:93) > > > <snip> > > > > John Fletcher > >
