Hello list, First post on Xerces list so please excuse any parts I have missed which may seem obvious.
I am currently attempting to get a plug-in working with a webapp and keep experiencing the exception error stated above. I am aware that this may mean that specific .jar files are not included in the classpath for my servlet. I have posted part of my Tomcat server log for further exception report. The version of Xerces I am working with is 2.6.1. 10-Jan-2011 16:41:46 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.xerces.util.XMLChar at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1516) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1361) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.Util.splitNamespace(Util.java:63) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ResourceImpl.whereToSplit(ResourceImpl.java:115) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ResourceImpl.<init>(ResourceImpl.java:67) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ResourceImpl.<init>(ResourceImpl.java:70) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ResourceImpl$2.wrap(ResourceImpl.java:27) at com.hp.hpl.jena.enhanced.Personality.newInstance(Personality.java:83) at com.hp.hpl.jena.enhanced.EnhGraph.getNodeAs(EnhGraph.java:128) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.IteratorFactory.asResource(IteratorFactory.java:93) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.IteratorFactory.asResource(IteratorFactory.java:79) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ModelCom.getResource(ModelCom.java:736) at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ModelCom.createResource(ModelCom.java:1151) at com.hp.hpl.jena.vocabulary.OWL.<clinit>(OWL.java:47) at com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.ProfileRegistry.<clinit>(ProfileRegistry.java:48) at com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntModelSpec.<clinit>(OntModelSpec.java:55) at org.apache.nutch.ontology.jena.OntologyImpl.<init>(OntologyImpl.java:82) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at org.apache.nutch.plugin.Extension.getExtensionInstance(Extension.java:160) at org.apache.nutch.ontology.OntologyFactory.getOntology(OntologyFactory.java:80) at org.apache.jsp.search_jsp._jspService(search_jsp.java:147) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) If as I have described above, the various jars are not on my classpath then can someone provide insight into how I may resolve the issue. Thank you in advance Lewis Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Winner: Times Higher Education's Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society's Education Initiative of the Year 2009 http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html