On 05/02/2015 18:51, Jerry Malcolm wrote: > There is an apparent bug or functional change dealing with the sax > package getting loaded that was introduced in 8.0.17. > > Background: I have been in the process of migrating three independent > servers to new hardware. As part of the migration, I decided to upgrade > all of them to the latest Tomcat 8. The first one worked fine. I > repeated the install process on the 2nd one. I kept getting an error on > my pages, though, on the 2nd server install. I decide to continue on to > the third server while trying to figure out the problem. The third > server had the identical error. The error message I received was: > > --- javax.el.ELException: The package [org.saxpath] could not be found > > I'm using JSTL, and the stack trace showed that it was occurring on a > JSTL tag in a JSP. Also, all three servers are Win Server 2008-R2. > > I tried for several hours to figure out why a jar was apparently missing > and/or what might be different from server #1. I then noticed that I > had downloaded Tomcat 8.0.15 for the first server and 8.0.17 for the > other two servers. Definitely a total long shot. But I uninstalled > 8.0.17 from the 2nd server and downloaded/installed 8.0.15 from the > Tomcat archive. Voila.... it works. Did the same thing on the third > server, and it fixed the problem there as well. > > If this error message was the result of a bug that was introduced in > 8.0.17 that has been or will be corrected, then no problem. However, if > this is a result of incompatibilities between my code and all future > Tomcat releases, I want to figure it out now and get it resolved. I > definitely don't want to have to readdress this again when I decide to > move up to Tomcat 9.x, etc. > > Can anyone explain what changed? BTW.... I'm using Apache Taglib 1.2.1 > jars, which as far I have been able to find, are the latest. Nothing > else unique in what I'm doing in this area of the code as far as I can > tell. > > Thanks for any info you can provide.
Can you try again with 8.0.18? I think you may have hit a regression that has since been fixed. If you still see the error, open a BZ issue and provide the simplest steps to reproduce you can (e.g. a JSP to add to Tomcat's examples app). Cheers, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
