DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder() error

Question

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
public class FrameRecorder extends Thread {
     public Document dmt;
     public FrameRecorder() {
          DocumentBuilderFactory fctry = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          fctry.setValidating(true);
          fctry.setNamespaceAware(true);
          fctry.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
//the error is on the next line.
          DocumentBuilder bldr = fctry.newDocumentBuilder();
When I run it, I get an error saying:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
     Unhandled exception type ParserConfigurationException
     at FrameRecorder.<init>(FrameRecorder.java:11)
     at BaseFrame.<init>(BaseFrame.java:17)
     at Base.createGUI(Base.java:10)
     at Base$1.run(Base.java:7)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:226)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:602)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:275)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:200)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:185)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:177)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
I don't know what to do to fix this.
I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.4 so could it be a compatibility problem? The only headway I could make was that .newDocumentBuilder() throws a ParserConfigurationException (that's the error I'm getting), and the docs tell me that .newDocumentBuilder() throws this when it "DocumentBuilder cannot be created which satisfies the configuration requested".
Any help?

Answer 1

Yes, somewhere in your code you have a compile error. I'm guessing you're using Eclipse and running your code from within it (or at least, running the Eclipse compiled classes from the command line).
You need to go and fix the compiler error. You already have all the information you need. You know where it is, you know what it is, and the documentation confirms it.