Strange Java XML Tomcat Problem

[Tom Dyess]

I created an RSS news feed reader that loads xml from a URL to a pre-formed
class structure. It loads just fine when Debuged in Eclipse 3.0.1 by
debugging the main() procedure, but when I try to run it in tomcat, I get
this:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.w3c.dom.Node.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;


The call that is causing it is this:

pubDate = node.getTextContent();

From what I understand, this method is new to Java 1.5 (not in 1.4). Why
would it work in Eclipse but not Tomcat installed on the same machine? I
downloaded Xerces 2.6.2 and put the 2 .jars in $TOMCAT/common/endorsed and
it still doesn't work.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Tom Dyess]

I created an RSS news feed reader that loads xml from a URL to a pre-formed
class structure. It loads just fine when Debuged in Eclipse 3.0.1 by
debugging the main() procedure, but when I try to run it in tomcat, I get
this:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.w3c.dom.Node.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;


The call that is causing it is this:

pubDate = node.getTextContent();

From what I understand, this method is new to Java 1.5 (not in 1.4). Why
would it work in Eclipse but not Tomcat installed on the same machine? I
downloaded Xerces 2.6.2 and put the 2 .jars in $TOMCAT/common/endorsed and
it still doesn't work.

Thanks,
Tom

Upgrading to Tomcat 5.5 solved the problem. I'm curious as to why replacing
the Xerces libs in /common/endorsed didn't solve the problem.

 

[chicagokiwi]

Wrong library

The incompatible Node class is actually in the xml-apis library, not xerces (e.g. xml-apis-2.5.0.jar).

We removed xml-apis-2.5.0.jar from the endorsed directory in Stellent Content Server (Oracle Universal Content Management 10gR3) - which uses Tomcat as its embedded servlet container - to work around this problem.