My current xerces version is 2.6.1. My app used Tomcat 7 without any issues. But upgrading to Tomcat 8 got that error. Is there any way to by-pass this error?
> Subject: Re: Fail to start Tomcat 8 with xerces library > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > From: ma...@apache.org > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 07:58:14 +0000 > > On 28/12/2015 07:24, Kien Vo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I encountered this error when starting Tomcat 8 with > > xerces library. Any help appreciated! > > > > I put xerces.jar in this folder C:\tomcat8\endorsed. If I > > don't put it there, Tomcat does not load that library at all. My application > > gets "NoSuchMethodException". > > > > Tomcat server: 8.0.30.0 > > JVM Version: > > 1.7.0_51-b13 (32 bit) > > OS Name: > > Windows 7 (64 bit) > > OS Version: > > 6.1 > > That version information is helpful but it doesn't include the Xerces > version. There have been quite a few Xerces releases so the version is > important. > > > org.w3c.dom.ls.LSException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > at > > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serialize.DOMSerializerImpl.writeToString(DOMSerializerImpl.java:534) > > > > at > > org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener.lifecycleEvent(JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener.java:447) > > Have you looked at line 447 of Tomcat's JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener? > If not, take a look. If yes, you should be able to ask a more specific > question. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >