DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3796>. ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3796 XML Classloader problem has crept back in Summary: XML Classloader problem has crept back in Product: Tomcat 4 Version: 4.0 Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: Other Component: Unknown AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an application that uses Xerces as its XML parser. I put Xerces in WEB- INF/lib, but if I try and use it (via JAXP) I get a ClassCastException. It looks as if my 'classpath' has been corrupted by the crimson parser in tomcat\common\lib. I didn't have this problem in Tomcat 4.0b6 (not sure about the later RC relases). To reproduce this, try ans install struts-example with xerces. jar in tomcat\webapps\struts-example\WEB-INF\lib, you'll see a ClassCastException where the digester is trying to load a parser. It seems that digester gets the Xerces SAX parser but Tomcat thinks it should have Crimson. I have the same issue (in my application) but with the DOM parser.
