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From: Darrell DeBoer <darrell@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Ant 1.5 Beta1 Sneak Preview ready
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 00:15:26 +1000
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 14:32, Michael McCallum wrote:
> the danger is that the order of the jars depends upon the ordering of a
> list of items from the ant/lib directory so the classes used may be
> different on different platforms.

Exactly, and it's just not great to have multiple versions of the same .class 
files in your classpath, if you can avoid it. Some of my least fun Java 
experiences have been tracking down LinkageErrors with JAXP, caused by 
different versions of JAXP classes in different places - I don't wish the 
experience on anyone. ;)

-- 
ciao,
Daz

>
> On Monday, 06 May, 2002 16:03, Diane Holt wrote:
> > --- Darrell DeBoer <darrell@apache.org> wrote:
> > > Could you try it with the <style> task?
> > > Here's what happens for me, with XalanJ - 2.3.1.
> > > 1) Clean 1.5Beta install - execute project with <style> task (myrmidon)
> > >     ==> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> > > javax/xml/transform/ErrorListener
> > > 2) Copy xalan.jar into ant/lib
> > >     ==> Same error
> > > 3) Copy xml-apis.jar into ant/lib
> > >     ==> Success, but now we have multiple copies of JAXP classes in
> > > ant/lib, with slightly different versions. This, IMHO, is dangerous.
> >
> > That's what I did as well to get <style> to work. What about it makes it
> > dangerous? (I'm not saying it isn't -- I have no clue about any of this
> > stuff, so I'm asking what the danger actually is.)
> >
> > Diane
> >
> >
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