An user reported that he found an issue while trying to run JAXP 1.3.2 on JDK 1.4. We should be compiling JAXP on JDK 1.4 to avoid any problem like this.

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Hi Kohsuke,

I'd create a new thread based on this question at the Glassfish site, but it won't let me log in for some reason. I'm trying to use JAXP 1.3.2 with JDK 1.4.2_9, and followed the directions at https://jaxp.dev.java.net/Updating.html#java-14. In particular, i'm using the following on the java comand line when I run my app:

-Djava.endorsed.dirs=yourDirectoryPath.

However, when I do this and try to execute a stylesheet via a Templates object, I get the following exception:

ERROR: 'java/lang/StringBuilder'
FATAL ERROR: 'Could not compile stylesheet'
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Could not compile stylesheet
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Could not compile stylesheet
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:824)

My understanding is that this functionality should work in JDK 1.4, so there shouldn't be any dependencies on JDK 1.5-specific classes like StringBuilder. I don't have anything else in the classpath that should be referencing StringBuilder (just Apache commons-logging and log4j), so i'm at a loss to determine where the StringBuilder reference is coming from. Any ideas? Should I be using an earlier version of JAXP 1.3?

Thanks,

Bentley