Output of using Oracle8i "deployejb" tool

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To deploy the EJB successfully, Oracle recommends that we deploy their Sample EJB's, which ships with Oracle8i product,
before proceeding with our EJBs. This would help us verify the installation.
The sample EJB's are available at %ORACLE_HOME%\javavm\demo\demo.zip.When the demo.zip file is extracted, a
folder \examples\ejb\basic\helloworld, is created in the extracted path.The makeit.bat and runit.bat files in this folder
should run successfully to deploy the EJB in the DB.
When I attempt to execute, makeit.bat doesnot run properly.The output is pasted here for your reference.As you may notice,
ClassCastException occurs, when a call is given to deployejb, through the makeit.bat file.
C:\Oracle8i\javavm\demo\extract\examples\ejb\basic\helloworld>call deployejb -republish -temp temp -u scott -p tiger
-s sess_iiop://localhost:2481:oracle8i -descriptor hello.ejb
server.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ORB
at oracle.aurora.jndi.orb_dep.IRFinder.getObject(IRFinder.java:24)
at oracle.aurora.jndi.orb_dep.IRFinder.initialReferences(IRFinder.java:78)
at oracle.aurora.jndi.sess_iiop.SessionCtx.initialContext(SessionCtx.java:499)
at oracle.aurora.jndi.sess_iiop.SessionCtx.<init>(SessionCtx.java:35)
at oracle.aurora.jndi.sess_iiop.ServiceCtx.createSession(ServiceCtx.java:130)
at oracle.aurora.jndi.sess_iiop.ServiceCtx.login(ServiceCtx.java:295)
at oracle.aurora.server.tools.sess_iiop.ToolImpl.initializeSession(ToolImpl.java:101)
at oracle.aurora.server.tools.sess_iiop.ToolImpl.parseStdArgs(ToolImpl.java:213)
at oracle.aurora.server.tools.sess_iiop.ToolImpl.invoke(ToolImpl.java:121)
at oracle.aurora.ejb.deployment.GenerateEjb.main(GenerateEjb.java:445)
Any help/comments on this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sandeep

I would like to post what I did in fact get to work.
I took the suggestion to replace single-quotes with double-quotes. What also DID seem to help things was:
1. removing all XML entities from my markup, even properly escaped ones (like &amp; or &#160;)
2. ensuring that:
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOPOS2" select="number(1)"/>
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOTOTAL" select="number(1)"/>
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I am still not 100% (or even 60%) sure this problem won't crop up if we have to modify our template, but through going through our original markup and adding it to a file that "works", table by table, and
assessing any errors, our reporting now works.
However, having entities (especially ampersand, or the non-breaking space [used as a placeholder for NULL database values to ensure the table-cell gets created]) would be useful.
Thanks for your comments.
Daniel

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