Name: krC82822 Date: 07/18/2001


/u/wmlrvg $ java -version
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0)
Classic VM (build 1.3.0, J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build hm130-20000718 (JIT enabled:
jitc))

Our code uses the SAX parser with the default implementation class as specified
in the crimson.jar file, in META-INF/services/javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.
Unfortunately, this appears to be in ASCII, and the OS/390 platform expects EBCDIC
so cannot read the class name and throws:
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError:
   at javax.xmlo.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance(SAXParserFactory.java:120)
   ...

I don't know where the problem lies - but since the jar file can be used on
ebcdic as well as ascii platforms, there is some disconnect about how to read
the manifest info. Interestingly enough, this works on the AS/400, also an
EBCDIC platform.
We also had problems on the OS/390 just sending and receiving character streams
over sockets from OS/390 to other platforms until we explicitly specified UTF8
in the stream constructor.
Here are the system parameters defined on the OS/390 platform:
/u/wmlrvg $ java HelloWorldApp
Host name=OAKS390
20010712 125904.369 main Hello World!
-- listing properties --
platform.notASCII=true
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Stand...
sun.boot.library.path=/java/J1.3/bin
java.vm.version=1.3.0
java.vm.vendor=IBM Corporation
java.vendor.url=http://www.ibm.com/
path.separator=:
java.vm.name=Classic VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=/u/wmlrvg
java.runtime.version=1.3.0
java.fullversion=J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build hm130-20000718 (...
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
os.arch=390
java.io.tmpdir=/tmp
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.awt.fonts=
os.name=OS/390
java.library.path=/java/J1.3/bin/:/java/J1.3/bin/classi...
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=46.0
os.version=02.09.00
user.home=/u/wmlrvg
user.timezone=CST
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.motif.PSPrinterJob
file.encoding=Cp1047
java.specification.version=1.2
user.name=WMLRVG
java.class.path=omni.jar:crimson.jar:jaxp.jar:xalan.j...
java.vm.specification.version=1.0
java.home=/java/J1.3
user.language=en
java.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.vm.info=J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build hm130-20000718 (...
java.version=1.3.0
java.ext.dirs=/java/J1.3/lib/ext
sun.boot.class.path=/java/J1.3/lib/rt.jar:/java/J1.3/lib/...
java.vendor=IBM Corporation
file.separator=/
java.vendor.url.bug=
java.compiler=jitc
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeBig
/u/wmlrvg $
(Review ID: 127974)
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