ExceptionInInitializerError & Xerces

Question

I have the following codes to parse xml using xerces and I think when I have line #2
and line #3 I got ExceptionInInitializerError as shown bellow. The error message
is not very helpful, could anyone give me some ideas why I got this error?
I also notice when includes all the xerces files in my jar file I had no error, but if
I let JBuilder's deployment wizard to include only files that are necessary, I got
the error but the error message does not give me any ideas which files I am missing.
Anthony
#### CODE #######
    DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
=>        parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);
=>        parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
        parser.setFeature(
            "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema-full-checking", true);
        Validator handler = new Validator();
        parser.setErrorHandler(handler);
        parser.parse(xmlfile.getAbsolutePath());
        if (handler.validationError == true) {
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "XML Document is not valid");
          handler.saxParseException.printStackTrace(System.out);
          throw new SAXParseException("XML Document is not valid", null);
        else {
          System.out.println("XML Document is valid");
        }##### ERROR MESSAGE ######
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstruct
orAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingC
onstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ObjectFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.SchemaDVFactory.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.SchemaDVFactory.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.SchemaGrammar$BuiltinSchemaGrammar.<init>(U
nknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.SchemaGrammar.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.<init>(Unknown
Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.IntegratedParserConfiguration.configurePipe
line(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.reset(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at twbgui.TwbGui.loadXML(TwbGui.java:906)
at twbgui.TwbGui.loadGraph(TwbGui.java:701)
at twbgui.TwbGui$8.actionPerformed(TwbGui.java:348)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:18 49)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.jav
a:2169)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel
.java:420)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258 )
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:302)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1 000)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMen
uItemUI.java:1041)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3093)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212 )
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchTh
read.java:234)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThre
ad.java:163)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: internal error
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.XSSimpleTypeDecl.applyFacets1(Unknown So urce)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.SchemaDVFactoryImpl.createBuiltInTypes(U
nknown Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.SchemaDVFactoryImpl.<clinit>(Unknown Sou rce)
... 46 more

Answer 1

Originally posted by: dwhitema.us.ibm.com
ask on eclipse.tools
"Rob Tanner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> I have tried installing the binary dist and also downloading and building
> from source, and I always get the same error at startup when I try to
> invoke eclipse. From .metadata/.log:
>
> java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError:
> java.lang.ClassCastException:
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration
>
> Is this a problem with the xerces.jar file in lib/ext in the JSDK, or is
> this a problem with a file in the eclipse distribution? Also, I tried
> with both the 1.3 and 1.4 versions of the Sun Java distro.
>
> Any ideas what I need to fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Tanner