JSTL xml is killing me... Tomcat 5.5 question - Connection refused: connec

Question

I have the following code in my jsp file:
<%
String req_url="http://localhost/nolabook/books.xml";
//String req_url="http://www.SOMESERVER.com/books.xml";
%>
<c:import var="xml" url='<%= req_url %>' />
<c:import var="xslt" url="transform.xsl" />
<x:transform doc="${xml}" xslt="${xslt}" >
</x:transform>If I use 'req_url' with localhost then everything is ok and I see the result I want to. The xsl is perfect, the output is flawless.
If I try to load the same books.xml from a remote server I got the following exception:
...and the exception is: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Problem accessing the absolute URL "http://www.SOMESERVER.com/books.xml". java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
It drives me nuts and I cannot move on with my project because of this.
I use java 1.5 with Apache Tomcat 5.5.17
No firewalls, no port closures, no security systems nothing on my developer machine...
And of course, if I just place the URL(.../books.xml) into my browser it reads and shows the books.xml file.
I need help please because I'm drained...
Message was edited by:
ayrtonsf1

Answer 1

please see the following site for the solution:
http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/Java/xml_examples.html
summary:
You will also need the jar files from the Xalan distribution whose web site is:
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
The latest version is 2.7.0 and the binary distribution can be downloaded from the course server at
xalan-j_2_7_0-bin.zip
which contains the JAR file needed for XPath and Xerces compilation usages. Extracting the zip file yields the directory xalan-j_2_7_0. Within it look for the files (also downloadable from these links):
xalan.jar, xercesImpl.jar, serializer.jar
These JAR files will need to be made available to Eclipse. The easiest way, as before, is to install them directly into
apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/lib
good luck,
-zak guler