Error in Solaris but not in Windows

Question

I have an application that is reading from a database, cleaning the results of all html tags, and writing to a new database. It all works fine on a Windows machine with jdk1.3. However, it throws the error I have attached to the message on the Solaris box. It has to do with the html cleaning. When I take it out, it works on both machines. Why though. Here is the code for the html cleaning and the error: 5 Dukes to whoever can help.
Code:
      * Removes the html formatting for a string and stores it in a file
      * @return java.lang.String
      * @param htmlText java.lang.String
      * @param outputText java.lang.String
     public static String removeHtml(String htmlText) throws IOException     
          String returnValue = "";
          EditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();          
          Document doc = kit.createDefaultDocument();          
          // The Document class does not yet handle charset's properly.          
          doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective", Boolean.TRUE);          
          try          
               // Create a reader on the HTML content.     
               Reader rd = new StringReader(htmlText);
               // Parse the HTML.               
               kit.read(rd, doc, 0);               
               //Write the cleaned text to file
               //writeOutputFile(doc, outputFile);     
               //Set returnValue to cleaned text
               returnValue = doc.getText(0, doc.getLength()).toString();
          catch (Exception e)          
               e.printStackTrace();          
          return returnValue;
     }Error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/motif/MToolkit
at java.lang.Class.forName1(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:142)
at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:533)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:524)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getEventQueue(Toolkit.java:1179)
at java.awt.EventQueue.isDispatchThread(EventQueue.java:534)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.reclaim(StyleContext.java(Compiled Code))
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.reclaim(StyleContext.java(Compiled Code))
at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument$AbstractElement.finalize(AbstractDocument.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.invokeFinalizeMethod(Native Method)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.runFinalizer(Finalizer.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java(Compiled C

Answer 1

Here is the code where I am calling the html cleaner method. This works fine in a Windows env but fails in Solaris. If I comment out the call to removeHtml(value).trim it will work. It will even work if I make a different call removeHtml("string to strip") from the main method. Why would it work in one place but not the other in Solaris, and why would it always work in Windows? Does anybody have any ideas?
           while (rs.next ()) {
                for (int i = 1; i <= columnCount; ++i) {
                    String value = rs.getString (i);
                    if (rs.wasNull ()){
                        value = "<null>";
                    String columnName = rsmd.getColumnName(i).trim();
                    if(clean&&(columnName.equalsIgnoreCase("DESC")
                              ||columnName.equalsIgnoreCase("HEADER")
                              ||columnName.equalsIgnoreCase("TEXT")))
                         //Clean the text
                         //value = removeHtml(value).trim(); //remove html markup
                         value = value.replace('\n', ','); //remove new lines
                         value = value.replace('\r', ','); //remove carriage returns
                         value = replaceString(value, "&mdash", "-"); //remove dash markup
                       outputBuffer.append (value.trim());                      
                    outputBuffer.append ("||");
                outputBuffer.append ("{{NEWLINE}}");
            }