Name: gm110360 Date: 07/30/2003


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode)

FULL OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION :Windows NT Version 4.0


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The search strategy for a usable XMLReader should follow
the rules of the original (see
http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/helpers/XMLReaderFactory.html). Specialy when using applets, which don't have
access to SystemProperties, the lookup in META-
INF/services/org.xml.sax.driver is very helpful.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1. Try to parse an XML file with Piccolo.jar
(http://piccolo.sourceforge.net/) instead of your own ones

JUSTIFICATION :
If the system property org.xml.sax.driver isn't set,
XMLReaderFactory (the one of j2sdk1.4) doesn't find any
usable XMLReader class. The behavior of xerces or Piccolo
is, that they take a default parser, not nothing.

CUSTOMER WORKAROUND :
Don't take XMLReaderFactory class of j2sdk1.4. Not really a
workaround, because it is already contained in the 1.4
rt.jar.
(Incident Review ID: 167014)
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